http://futfanatico.com/2009/09/10/the-ugly-diving-duckling/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-ugly-diving-duckling Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:58:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://futfanatico.com/2009/09/10/the-ugly-diving-duckling/#comment-44 The Ugly, Diving Duckling « Scissors Kick Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:09:11 +0000 http://futfanatico.com/?p=907#comment-44 [...] The Ugly, Diving Duckling “Eduardo has been sentenced to a 2 game ban for ‘diving.’ UEFA could not write a diving specific prohibition because the offense is too amorphous. Thus, Platini relied on an ambiguous and long unused snippet of statutory text. Technically, Eduardo was convicted of ’simulation.’ But the legal logistics are not exactly what bothers me.” (futfanatico) [...] [...] The Ugly, Diving Duckling “Eduardo has been sentenced to a 2 game ban for ‘diving.’ UEFA could not write a diving specific prohibition because the offense is too amorphous. Thus, Platini relied on an ambiguous and long unused snippet of statutory text. Technically, Eduardo was convicted of ’simulation.’ But the legal logistics are not exactly what bothers me.” (futfanatico) [...]

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