Good news for the sport and long overdue

Sam's comments are right though - if you're only going to review incidents that result in a player winning a penalty or lead to an opponent being sent off, then those that are booked for simulation but were fouled and didn't get a pen are still penalised.

And let's not forget, if a pen was given & scored, or a sending off led to a win for the 11 players, those points and goals still stand, so any bans would have to be long enough to make the players think twice.

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I'd say it's bad news; Zaha will get a red for being hacked down on the occasions where the ref failed to give him a yellow, for supposed simulation, when he's clobbered. I anticipate we won't see him for more than half a dozen games next season.

Bexley Dave

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I suppose not ideal but it will work both ways, yellow/red cards can be cleared on appeal but of course goals won't be. I think it's better to have something in place than nothing – seems to work to a good enough level in the scottish leagues (since 2011 apparently).

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

They're clearly not going to suspend players who are touched but they don't think it was heavy enough.

This is to stop the Snodgrass kind of dive, where they weren't touched and go down like they were hacked to pieces. I remember when Pulis was in charge and Thomas and Ince did this. He was furious with them.

I welcome it!

Big Sam has hit the nail on the head.

I was not his biggest fan but his straight talking on this point is perfect.

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