If so, could they please upload it and provide a link, because I don’t think Simon Borg has seen it yet

Seriously, someone must have DVR’d this – let’s put the true version out there. All youtube has is the lame goal highlights from the Revs feed.

It’s shocking that this MLS show didn’t even get the final decision correct (after doing all that research to contact the disciplinary committee!)

And yeah, this angle is basically worthless, since it’s so far away and it begins too late in the altercation to see the sequence of events (Ianni walks over, steps on Joseph, Joseph swings back, Ianni staggers away, Joseph falls down clutching his ankle, Ianni falls to his knees grabbing his neck.)

I don’t get all the concern over “simulation” either – this was a shocking incident and both players wanted to be sure they had the refs attention. Unsporting, yes, but hardly the same as the flops in the box we see in open play.

We really deserve better than this, as a team, as a league, and as fans (at least the retroactive punishments should be correctly decided!)

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying the ref screwed us out of three points (our shambles of a defense was well on the way to that from the first minute) – but there’s no doubt we were clinging by our fingernails before this fracas blew our fragile concentration to smithereens.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSt0C7Xw50I

Notice how Shalie doesn’t go down until AFTER he slaps Ianni. Honestly, both players acted stupidly and the just thing would have been to red card both. Unfortunately, the ref was only gonna red card Ianni because apparently “stars” in MLS can do whatever the hell they want. Luckily for Ianni, his teammates stood up for him.