Jose Mourinho has opposed the idea of punishing divers in retrospect, after an independent panel finds the player guilty.
Two Chelsea players, Diego Costa and Willian, were both booked last week at Stamford Bridge for simulation and Hull City boss Steve Bruce accused Gary Cahill of going down “like something out of Swan Lake”.
Former referee Mark Halsey, has suggested that “only one real solution” is to have an independent panel review such decisions retrospectively, but Mourinho does not agree.
“The independent panels don’t do their job well in any case,” he argued. “When you go to an independent panel to analyse and suspend players by video evidence, it is a disaster. It is a disaster.
“I remember last season, and I don’t want to say the names of clubs or players, you had players and clubs punished by panels and you had clubs and players protected by panels.
“I saw somebody kick a player on the floor, hit him in the back — no suspension. I saw others with minor things being suspended. Players are punished for silly comments on Facebook, Instagram and this kind of thing, and players are not punished for other things.
“You speak one week about one dive that, for me, was not even a dive — you don’t speak about Filipe Luis who could be in this moment in the hospital having big surgery on his knee or in his leg.
“Independent panels are the same ones that last season analysed my situation against Aston Villa and I was punished and suspended because I tried to help, so for me panels only favour the ones who always have the favours.”
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