The A-League Disciplinary Committee is such a joke.
It contains former high profile Socceroo player Dominic Longo who was sacked by his Belgian club Cercle Brugge in 1996 after he was caught in the club offices stealing money. This was an international news story back then.
A player sacked for stealing from his club on the Disciplinary Committee? Fudge me, now I can die having seen everything !!!
Longo was on the Disciplinary Committee that heard Seb Ryall's case this week for simulation in the Sydney FC vs. Melbourne Victory game on the weekend.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/a-league/663...
"Retrospective suspensions for simulation have been in place in the A-League since the 2009-10 season, but Ryall's case was the first to referred directly to the disciplinary committee by the three-man match review panel.
In the 2010/11 campaign, Central Coast Mariners' Argentine import Patricio Perez and ex-Perth striker Michael Baird became the only players in A-League history to be banned for simulation by the match review committee.
On Wednesday, a committee of John Marshall SC, former Socceroo Dominic Longo and barrister Peter Mulligan delivered a not guilty verdict after less than 10 minutes of deliberation."
Longo is a Tasmanian - I think we all know about the origins of European settlement there!
There's been a lot of covering up of his dodgy past in Australia - Longo incredibly was inducted into the Tasmanian sports Hall of Fame in 2011.
He also was selected to play for the Socceroos in the years after his sacking for attempted theft by Cercle Brugge.