Uefa retract Eduardo ban

I think they realised they would end up having to ban half the players in each football league.

If they are going to do it, fine but announce the intention and then start banning.
 
dannyjo22 said:
I think they realised they would end up having to ban half the players in each football league.

If they are going to do it, fine but announce the intention and then start banning.
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Eduardo was not the first time Uefa have banned a player for 2 matches for diving.

Uefa bottled it. Sod making the game worth watching, let's not upset the big teams.
 
dannyjo22 said:
I think they realised they would end up having to ban half the players in each football league.
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Aye, my thoughts exactly. They just don't want to admit that, so have fallen back on the "Oh no we're not actually sufficiently convinced" response.

Nor said:
Eduardo was not the first time Uefa have banned a player for 2 matches for diving.
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When else have they done it?
 
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Tummy said:
Uefa don't want to upset the "big four", simple as that.
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What, the same UEFA that everyone reckons is blatantly biased against the English? The same UEFA who probably couldn't give a stuff who the top four in this country are, as long as they get enough big names in the Champions League? The same UEFA who actually imposed the ban in the first place, instead of just ignoring it?

Yeah, they're well sucking up to Arsenal, eh.

EDIT: The same UEFA who actually changed the qualifying format for the CL this year so it's actually slightly harder for all of the "big four" to get into the group stages?

EDIT AGAIN: The same UEFA who think Man City's and Chelsea's millions, or Man Utd's and Liverpool's heavy debts are detrimental to football?
 
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Do UEFA have nothing to do with spanish or italian leagues? Just seems a little odd to hit arsenal randomly when this must happen every week in every league at every level.

I reckon that eduardo did dive but you cant just suddenly decide to notice it. As mentioned, they need to announce this as a blanket ruling at the start of a year.
 
Weebull said:
Aye, my thoughts exactly. They just don't want to admit that, so have fallen back on the "Oh no we're not actually sufficiently convinced" response.


When else have they done it?
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Lithuanian player vs Scotland was banned for 2 matches after diving to win a Penalty Kick in a Euro qualifier.

In all honesty it's a disgrace that he has been cleared of this, honestly I dont know what UEFA were thinking.

Any fear of bans around the CL and Europa Cup for diving will be gone now, dive away lads, dive away.

fez said:
Do UEFA have nothing to do with spanish or italian leagues? Just seems a little odd to hit arsenal randomly when this must happen every week in every league at every level.

I reckon that eduardo did dive but you cant just suddenly decide to notice it. As mentioned, they need to announce this as a blanket ruling at the start of a year.
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:rolleyes: It happened in a champions league qualifier
 
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Good.

Morally speaking I'd have liked it to stand IF it consistantly was awarded across the board. Only a day later we saw that this wasn't the case, therefore the right decision has been made.

I still feel sorry for Eduardo.
 
I cant remember how many times news has been posted about the governing footballing bodies bottling it this year. They're a shambolic excuse for an authoritative figure and its their constant demonstration of weakness that has helped football wither into the state it is today.
 
jrodga2k5 said:
Lithuanian player vs Scotland was banned for 2 matches after diving to win a Penalty Kick in a Euro qualifier.

In all honesty it's a disgrace that he has been cleared of this, honestly I dont know what UEFA were thinking.

Any fear of bans around the CL and Europa Cup for diving will be gone now, dive away lads, dive away.
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There was never that fear though! UEFA ****ed the entire thing up when they announced they weren't going to bother reviewing games shortly after the original ban. If they'd decided they were going to be consistent and do this to everyone, I'd support it, but as a one-off publicity stunt behind a process they don't intend to honour regularly, it's a complete joke, and I fully believe Eduardo should have had his ban removed.

No doubt he will get more stick as a result of this though.
 
I posted in the other thread but I'll post again here. This is a stupid decision and means that you can still cheat and get away with the most obvious dives and uefa won't do a thing.
 
The fact was they weren't going to punish anyone else, so it was fair to retract it, they also I believe took back the ban because A, there was some contact however small and they can't prove Eduardo didn't go down to prevent injury assuming the first touch wasn't going to be minor.

Again its a hard one to prove intent for because afaik the penalty was given without him actually appealing so they couldn't prove he deceived the ref as opposed to the ref simply making the wrong call, again, fair. Even more so considering far more blantant dives that have happened since. LIke for instance, Rooney for England and others aswell.

Frankly their option was to spend months of the year banning 40% of the footballers in the world and dealing with all the appeals, or recinding this one completely unfair and inconsistant ban.

Using the lithuanian guy as an example doesn't help your case, it weakens it, just like that one this was out of the blue and completely inconsistant.

I'd happily see every dive AND every shirt pull by a defender and attacker all punished restrospectively till no one bothers doing it anymore, but punishing one player out of 1000 randomly is beyond ridiculous.

Likewise, even though I thoroughly despise Caragher and how many penalties he's got away with not conceding, I'd also completely oppose a ban to him for doing it while no one else got a ban for doing the same thing, it would be just as utterly ridiculous.

The main thing I have a huge problem with is people seeing diving and conning the ref as any worse at all than a defender who pulls someone back by tugging their shirt on the blind side of the ref and not having a penalty given. Both actions are contrary to the rules and both ARE cheating. Both are an established and unwelcome side to the game but EVERYONE does BOTH, some teams are worse than others for sure, and Eduardo is most certainly not even close to the worst offender in the league.

If you had to randomly punish ONE person for diving or shirt pulling, it should be the worst offender, I still wouldn't welcome it.
 
Total BS. He dived, they punished him. Whats changed now?
I suppose they decided they don't have the stomach for this fight.
But it sends a terrible message
 
People can say that its unfair as 1000 other players have done it and got away with it but untill a punishment is done and KEPT it wont ever change.
 
Well I have to say after my die hard defending of Eduardo, I feel rather smug right about now. I just hope the FA don't over react to Adebayors celebration, BUT ban him for two games for stamping on v.Persies face.
 
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