People moan when the governing bodies do nothing in certain situations and then they moan when they do
I can only see that the punishments handed out to Chelsea both for what happened during their game with Barca and this and Arsenal/Eduardo good for football, forget that it's without precedent the precedent has now been set tough luck if you feel like you're being signed out it happened with us with Rio all those years back and we had to just get on with it so stop your moaning Chelsea/Arsenal
It's about time Fifa/Uefa started sorting out the ugly side of the game
The prescendant hasn't been set, Uefa have specifically said they WON'T be going after anymore people for diving. Which makes your point completely without merit, no prescendant has been made and should they make one and follow through, not setting it BEFORE THE SEASON STARTS, is beyond a joke.
Its a game, games need rules, rules can't change as and when you want, from the start to the finish of any single competition the rules need to be unchanged and uniformly enforced across the board.
The Eduardo ban is beyond a joke, especially considering the loudest complainers, players of Celtic, are divers, cheats and 2 should have been sent off for other forms of cheating in that same game as it was. If everyone who dived got a ban fine, but one, its ridiculous. What if Carragher got the ban he deserved for shirt pulling in the box, but not a single other player in the year was.
Likewise for Chelsea, every single transfer, almost every single transfer includes tapping up to some degree. The thing is I haven't seen what the kid supposedly did to breach his contract that allowed him to leave for free, unless he threw games or attacked other players I can't see why he shouldn't be allowed to leave. Contracts are just that, if you work for a publisher, as a secretary, you have a contract. Should you decide you don't wish to work there anymore its ludicrous to suggest you HAVE to work there until your contract is up.
Compensation should be agreed upon which, afaik, is exactly what happens in these cases for any other team.
EDIT:- ALso worth asking why people consider Chelsea to have the best squad in the league, far from it. Their first team wingers aren't great let alone the backup, they have literally 2 strikers, and as of this year a unproven Sturridge(though he's shown big potential), a bunch of central attacking midfielders, a bunch of centre backs, no established backup at left back, and a few right backs.
They have one of the most threadbare teams in the league tbh, even crap teams tend to have more players available to play upfront and on the wings.
When Drogba's gone, if Anelka is injured which two players are playing upfront, Sturridge and.... who? Upfront Arsenal and Spurs have massively stronger lineups than Pool, Utd or Chelsea. I'd say Spurs, Arsenal, Pool and Utd have stronger first team and reserve players on the wings too.
