THE Falkirk player at the centre of a dive storm during Saturday's clash has been banned for two games after being found guilty of the offence.

Myles Hippolyte has accepted an immediate suspension by the Scottish Football Association after agreeing with an angry Pars team that he committed an act of simulation to win his team a penalty.

Referee Gavin Duncan enraged Dunfermline when he pointed to the spot after Sean Murdoch clearly won the ball at the feet of the Bairns man, who proceeded to throw himself over the keeper's arm.

Aaron Muirhead scored the penalty to level matters before Lewis Martin's red card, and Nathan Austin's winner for Falkirk, rubbed salt into the gaping wounds of the incensed Pars players.

Skipper Andy Geggan agreed that retrospective action should be taken against cheats and compared it to the recent incident with Ross County's Alex Schalk dive to win a penalty against Celtic.

He said: "When you see it back, it's a shocker. It's like that one last week with Celtic, that was a shocker too.

"I don't know how you go about it but something needs to be done, especially with something like that today."

Geggan continued: "That penalty changed the game. I don't know how he's conned the ref into giving him it. I've watched it back and you clearly see Sean's hand coming round and he's flicked the ball away from him.

"I don't know if he's trying to get away from him or he's just rolled over him. Where the ref's standing and the linesman's standing, I don't know how one of them can't see it."

The SFA compliance officer issued a notice of complaint to Hippolyte under rule 201 - "That on or around the 53rd minute of the above match you committed an act of simulation".

He was given a fixed suspension offer of two matches, to be served immediately, which he has accepted.