UEFA Ban Eduardo, Still Waiting For News On Young

Get over it. It harsh, he's not the only one who does it, FAAAAAR from it but whats done is done. Didier Drogba and Jose Bosingwa got 3 match bans for saying a bad word on telly and calling a ref a cheat. Uefa are the goons but please put this to rest already and tell Wenger to look after his own team and not worry about who does what elsewhere.

Amazing that Cronaldo and Gerrard can dive in CL and other int'l matches to their hearts content and go unpunished. Eduardo does it ONCE and gets banned. And anyone who thinks this means UEFA are going to start a real crackdown on diving is fooling themselves. I can also assure you that if Arsenal had drawn a team from another country other than Scotland in the CL, and Eduardo had dived -- THIS CONTROVERSEY AND PUNISHMENT WOULD NOT HAVE OCCURRED.

Zbam, the difference is that players don't always go after the refs after matches, however dives happen all the time. UEFA should ban players for 3 matches if they behaved like Drogba, and they should ban players for 2 matches if they behave like Eduardo. But we all know that they won't, and that is the true issue.

This is what happens to CHEATS. Good old Man Utd. They can cheat too eh?

Weetim you can't use the present tense 'happenS' if there's way more incidents where nothing happens to cheats than incidents where a cheating player gets charged like this right? English is my second language, correct me if I'm wrong. (Or yourself if you are.)

Frankly an amazing decision. The club simply wasted their time putting together a defence because it was clear that UEFA had already decided Eduardo was guilty without trial. What happened to innocent until proven guilty? They won't sanction video and yet use it to condemn a player. Really, how absurd can it get? They also effectively render their own referee impotent in over-ruling his decision. Its not UEFA's job to come to a decision...its the referee's! The moment you start changing decisions made by your own officials you start down a slippery slope. Only Eduardo can truly know whether he dived or not, although he clearly didn't seem to be appealing for a penalty. Folks, the decision to award the spot kick was made by the ref and only the ref. He has since stood by his decision, but somehow this hasn't satisfied UEFA. it appears evil Eduardo is at fault for trying to pull the wool over our eyes and must suffer tenfold! I ask you, what is worse for the image of the game - Eduardo falling over anticipating a challenge or Messi headbutting an opponent? Ludicrous.

haha rocky, amazingly that is exactly how i'd respond too. i'm all for punishing players for diving, and i completely accept that this is conceivably a justifiable punishment for eduardo. I am now looking forward to the second match day of the CL as Ronaldo and Gerrard will most certainly dive in the first match day at some point... but I won't hold my breath on their suspensions

If you look at the incident in which Sagna got booked at the weekend you will see that it was as a result of Nani putting the ball into touch and then rasing his hand in the air to appeal for the throw which he duly got. There can be no doubt that Nani knew he put the ball into touch and therefore in appealing for the decision to be incorrectly awarded his way he is guilty of precisely the same offence that Eduardo has been banned for - intentionally deceiving the referee into making a wrong decision. Every such incident from now on should be reported to the authorities with the demand that it be actioned in exactly the same way as the Eduardo precedent.

Uefa wont need cameras or extra refs now that Arsene and the gooners are gonna be watching every little foul out there for them. The punishment is extremely harsh but Eduardo cheated. Pointing out other players cheating, be it from free kicks, corners, dives etc does not take away from the fact that Eduardo cheated. I dont think he's a scumbag and unfortunately diving is common in football these days. Look at Sean Davis the other day against Cesspool. Not a sniff about Lucas and what he did to get Davis sent off but if this keeps up then you gooners will not be able to watch a match any more as the notebooks will be out writing the minutes from each game and dare I say, Arsenal will be responsible for killing footy!! Ah no, I'm joking there but look at the games he's gonna miss even, hardly worth all this mess. Once again, I agree 2 match ban is *****e but he DID cheat. NO ONE said he was the only cheater in the world. There's at least one in every team. Chin up boys!

Zbam, I don't know any gooner who denies Eduardo dived. It's the mass hysteria and selective moral outrage that this one incident has caused that has us so annoyed.

They have to start somewhere, i'm happy that it came to light in a high profile game. He did cheat , he got caught by video evidence. Let him take the punishment on the chin or shin (lol). Let all con artists take note......YOU ARE BEING WATCHED.

he didn't deserve it - a disgrace!

You know what, I'm glad this is happening. It seems like the whole world is against us - UEFA, total twerps in the media like Alan Hansen and Stan Collymore (I mean seriously, can you really take someone seriously that has previously beaten up his girlfriend and been caught getting off on watching other couples cop off?? How can talksport hire such a pillock??) - well feck em, feck em all. I hope this creates a siege mentality around the team and drives them to success this season. Then I'd like to see the look on their faces. Especially when Eduardo finishes as top scorer in the PL!

I am sure there have been opportunities enough to punish Ronaldo for diving. Let's see if they now intend to take this process as far as their action against Eduardo would seem to suggest they must. Just don't hold your breath.

Arsenal have ruined it for the rest of the cheaters, bah. LOL!! :P

I too am waiting for Ashley Young's suspension. I got all week UEFA....

Since it was the SFA who made such a big thing about this, will McGeady get more than 1 match ban? I doubt it! I personally don't mind the ban, but expect every dive not seen by the ref in CL to be given the same punishment, some sides might struggle for registered players after a game or two.

He didn't even appeal for a penalty. He went down, and that was it from his side. The dude is still coming back from having his leg crushed, for heavens sake, he can almost be expected to react a little funny when someone rushed to him. But I think it's important to note that the ref gave this penalty without an Arsenal player raising an arm etc. As the ref himself said, he wasn't deceived, and that's what the ban is for, not for the dive.

You guys I am so outraged. After giving Dudu a 2 game ban, UEFA now says diving is punishable with the yellow card. What planet if any do those m_g__s come from.

Damn cheating brazilians!! I don`t know why they jump, it`s not like a strong challenge could break their leg. ********!

Rocky, I know what you mean but it cannot have helped Eduardo's case that there was maybe £10m-£15m riding on that one game. I think they will only make these sort of decisions in so called 'high profile' games which will smack of double standards. As I have stated previously, if UEFA wanted to take a stand, then a two match ban, suspended for the rest of the season would have been a more palatable response, or if UEFA wanted to have taken a tougher line, do want happens in sprinting where after one false start, anyone can be disqualified if they repeat. In this scenario, any subsequent dive by anyone would result in a two match ban. I think however that UEFA can only enforce this suspension in their own competitions so diving will still occur in the domestic leagues.

In order to make everyone understand the posts above, I paste the 10.c) article below: "suspension for two competition matches or for a specified period for acting with the obvious intent to cause any match official to make an incorrect decision or supporting his error of judgement and thereby causing him to make an incorrect decision". From http://www.uefa.com/multimediafiles/download/regulations/uefa/others/72/95/88/729588_download.pdf

As far as I am concerned the penalty had no bearing at all on the outcome and had little impact on the job Celtic had to do. If I was Tony Mowbray before the Arsenal game, I would have told my team not to worry if Arsenal scored first because we still need to score three to win the tie (Kernowboy71 take note). No I believe this has something to do with the SFA. Their top two club sides have been summarily beaten by Arsenal (at a canter) in the last few weeks, conceding eight goals. They need to do something to deflect the attention away from the state of Scottish football.

Englishman-in-NY .... FIFA/UEFA have within their rules that any club taking legal action outside of the normal sporting court of arbitration, can be banned from participating in their competitions. A number national associations and clubs have been threatened with this. Clubs are 'invited' to participate in their competitions. It is carefully worded so that the invitation can be withdrawn. A class action lawsuit would cost Arsenal tens of millions even if they won

Amos we all no ed cheato dived to get a peno if u cant see that ye all must be have same eyesight as whinger

Wenger proposed that the referee considers controversial incidents after the match. 123 the ref DID consider the incident after the match, and I know someone as thick as a spud might not have noticed this, did stand by his decision and therefore no ban should be given, ******** hell I knew you ****s were thick but this is really taking the *****.

http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_5535065,00.html Well it looks like they've confessed to being corrupt *********s at least!

here's a little something from an Chelsea fan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhQF9h4x4Lw ENJOY, as it wasn't a dive.

zg2000fs, respect! Thanks for putting that up!