oh..... i'm all giddy now after all these talks ....... but here is just what i think.
A fine or a suspension?
Well i really don't care much for a fine....... and i don't think a rich guy like Zambro would either. Simply giving a fine would not encourgae a player to not dive/cheat in the future. If anything, he should be banned for a number of matches ....i dunno..... between 1 to 3 matches...... at least then, it will be a more effective deterrent to diving. Both the player and the club will loose out here. Irriplaceble loosing out. Not like a fine which can be too easily recuperated. And another point. A suspension/ban will mean the same for all clubs. A more equal way of punishment. A fine on the other had will not affect a club like Juve much at all....... but it may mean more to a less wealthy club.
What the diff if he admitted to diving or not? and what are the consequences if a player does admit vs a player who would always keep mum?
If you don't punish a person who admits to a mistake. There will be no incentive for him not to comit mistake again. He will think that if i admit to my fault, i will go free and a bunch of honest divers is not what we want. So yes, definaetly even if Zambro has admited to diving, he should be penalised in some way.
Also as some of you have said. wether he admits to this fault or not does not make the situation for the 'victim' club any better (sori for my simplified way of saying things, i'm no lawyer :frown: )
Even if Zambro gets a suspension/fine....... Bologna will still suffer that loss because of him. And wether he admits to it or not does not make the situation any better for Bologna. To them his 'honesty' would mean nothing.
The question is how to penalise?
I agree that players who admit to mistakes should have a different punishment to those who deny it. But here i am lost. i don't know what it could be. All i can say is that the aim is to stop such things like diving. All players who are in the wrong wether or not they decide to admit it, should be punished.
As for Zambro, maybe he is admiting to this because he values honesty. Or maybe he did it because he knows that it won't make a difference even if he does. Some people will tell of what they have gotten away with.