Since you asked: Both of these are from this thread. At least the first poster acknowledged that it might have been a foul.
The Wondo-Gonzalez incident made Olbermann's weird sports highlights segment tonight. He also had a good interview with the director of tomorrow's Hillsborough 30 for 30 movie.
MLS Disciplinary Committee fines Columbus Crew defender Giancarlo Gonzalez for embellishment http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/artic...referral&utm_content=News&utm_campaign=Unpaid
Well, until they establish some criteria which defines the punishment for "Behavior Which Simon Borg Finds Embarrassing" then, frankly, blatant bad acting isn't really suspendable, and the foul - well, referees miss fouls all the time. Again, there's no real prescription for dealing with "particularly egregious behavior" The DisCo is made up largely of ex players, who obviously weren't as wildly offended by the felonious nature of the foul as you were. I'll bow to their judgement. The retired defender I sent that link to responded "I was with him until the Rivaldoesque dive, and the humiliation of having it played 10,000 times all over the world over the next week will cure him of ever doing it again"
I'm curious as to how the AR missed this. Wondo is the furthest up attacker and Gonzalez is right next to the offside line established by Columbus... what the hell is the AR doing if he isn't watching exactly that?
One mitigating factor you left out, his "felonious" foul was committed nowhere near the ball so he doesn't have that excuse for using his elbow to level another player.
to be fair, this foul was away from the ball - where Stott's attention really needed to be. What doesn't make sense is that the AR on the near side (of the tv) missed it. Unless he too was ball watching (which, no way in hell should he be in that situation) then he has no excuse to missing this. Anyone at the game - did Stott talk to his AR on it? If so, this is on the AR not Stott