Dammit, Frings is banned for the next game. How can they ban someone when neither the Italien football assoc. nor their team complained, and even the player who was supposed to have been hit said he hadn't been hit?
I mean, look at the picture: You can clearly see his fist is, from this angle, before Cruz' face. It hasn't connected or you'd see Cruz' face being pushed to the side, or you'd at least see him reacting. Also, anyone who has ever thrown a halfway decent punch himself can see this isn't one. Frings' arm is simply stretched out in front of him, plus there's somebody standing directly left of him, there's no way he could have had any room to swing. There's absolutely no force behind this. And finally, he's standing right in front of Cruz, and dammit, he HIMSELF said he hadn't been hit!