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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
It was embellishment, not diving. You can still embellish on a legitimate penalty.
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Cox's tweet is itself an embellishment offence because it is a feigned outrage for the league applying its rulebook.
Diving / Embellishment are essentially treated as one category of misconduct in the rules, but as you say getting the penalty has nothing to do with whether you were actually fouled...in fact by definition, embellishing a fall or feigning an injury (which clearly can be caused by an illegal act by your opponent) get you a penalty...and then fines. It's in black and white and ironically the fine policy is itself incorporated by reference in the rules:
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64.1 Diving / Embellishment – Any player who blatantly dives,
embellishes a fall or a reaction, or who feigns an injury shall be
penalized with a minor penalty under this rule.
A goalkeeper who deliberately initiates contact with an attacking
player other than to establish position in the crease, or who otherwise
acts to create the appearance of other than incidental contact with an
attacking player, is subject to the assessment of a minor penalty for
diving / embellishment.
64.2 Minor Penalty - A minor penalty shall be imposed on a player who
attempts to draw a penalty by his actions (“diving / embellishment”).
64.3 Fines and Suspensions – As outlined in League issued
memorandum distributed to all teams prior to the 2015-2016 season
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So will Cox next tweet be "Love a league that tells its players in advance exactly what will happen to them if they performance act instead of playing the game"?