I don't think I saw that. I don't rememmber ever seeing him dive and thought he was quite hard to knock over. Even if true it's a long way from the reputation earned by, say, certain Chelsea forwards.

I'm f***ing appalled.

Whether there's a foul or not a player may have to go onto the ground to minimise injury risk. If you ever do say judo you learn how to fall without hurting yourself - not how to avoid falling altogether, because then you do hurt yourself. It is not Wilf's fault that he is fast and light and maybe doesn't have a low centre of gravity.

And just because he falls over once it does not mean a) that he is diving or b) that the next time it happens it's also not a foul.

As for the idea that it's Wilf's or Palace's fault that this buffoon of a ref gave such an appalling decision, this is so preposterous it beggars belief. The decisiob wasn't even against Zaha but McArthur - who is solidly built and does have a low centre of gravity, and whom (as I pointed out elsewhere) has no history of or reputation for diving whatsoever. Poll should bd roundly condemning such horrendous standards of officiating instead of excusing them by blaming perfectly fair play of the team wronged. This is coming from a senior figure in the setup and should know better than to spout such total bollocks.

Except that the problem is it isn't bollocks. It's FA policy. What did he have to say about the Snodcrass case? Did Dann "make it difficult" for the ref by not committing to a challenge that he knew would risk a penalty?

Absolutely outrageous. And Willo's argument that there's no agenda here blown completely out of the water.

Edited by chateauferret (01 Mar 2017 8.22pm)

I heard that on Talksport and I was fuming ! and I am not prone to fuming.
It was a disgraceful thing for a so called ex top referee to say,I thought they were meant to be impartial.He singled out Wilf for diving,I don't recall any of our players diving against Sunderland, but I did see Wilf in the penalty area getting blatantly pushed off the pitch.
There are plenty of divers at the "big clubs" ,Dele All, Sanchez,Hazard etc,the list is endless,but the pundits excuse them because they are being "clever"

I've just checked I think it was a foul on Gabbidon.
But what I'm saying the more pundits that claim Wilf is diving the refs pick up on it.

Interestingly yesterday Bobby Madley gave a Penalty for Murray,I thought it was a pen but the pundits said it wasn't.
Murrays shirt was pulled.