Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, has applauded the Football Association’s decision, to ban players found guilty of simulation for three games.
According to the Daily Telegraph, the new rule is the FA’s “first foray into stamping out simulation from the English game”.
“For a player to be banned for feigning injury, a red card shown to his opponent for violent conduct would first have to be rescinded,” the report says.
“If footage used to overturn the decision also demonstrates the apparent victim had deliberately sought to deceive the match officials, he or she will face a three-match ban.”
Wenger, speaking at his Friday press conference, ahead of the start of the 2015/2016 season, said: “I’m a big, big fan of the new simulation rule. With all the camera angles, it will be easier to punish players diving.”
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