Stoke manager Tony Pulis is seeking clarity from the Football Association on tackling following Robert Huth's sending-off against Sunderland last weekend.
Potters defender Huth was shown a straight red card by referee Martin Atkinson in the first half of the 1-0 Barclays Premier League defeat at a snowy Britannia Stadium for a sliding challenge on David Meyler.
Atkinson's decision left Pulis fuming and the Staffordshire outfit subsequently lodged an appeal with the FA but it was rejected, meaning Huth - now faced with a three-match ban - will sit out tomorrow's trip to Fulham.
The Welshman intends to pursue the matter, though, and said: "We are going to put a compilation of incidents together over the next few days.
"We will do it very professionally, in a proper manner, and then we'll send it off to the FA.
"We have to clear up what is a sending-off and what isn't, because we are watching games at times and we are getting different decisions being made for different teams and different players, but similar incidents.
"Our big thing is the inconsistency of it all and how we can clear it up.
"There is no point being just negative with it - you have to be a little bit constructive with it as well.
"We are disappointed that it (Huth's red card) has not been rescinded, but we have to get on with it."
Pulis last weekend suggested that the reaction of Black Cats midfielder Meyler - who he claimed was not touched by Huth in the tackle, yet rolled around on the floor as if hurt - had contributed to the dismissal.
The Potters boss referred to play-acting on the pitch as a "disease" that needs remedying and used the same terminology again today.
"I have watched a lot of Spanish football of late - the big games involving Barcelona and Real Madrid," said Pulis, whose team take on Spanish side Valencia in the first leg of their Europa League last-32 tie next week.
"The players put enormous pressure on referees by going down and, really, pretending that they are injured when they are not to get people booked, and running after referees with their hand up hoping to get a yellow card (for the opposition).
"We can't allow that to come in in this country, and I think we have got to stop it now. We have to be brave enough to stand up and say that if people are going to fall over or dive in the penalty box when they have not been touched, the FA should look at them.
"We only have to ban them once or twice and that will stop it all, and then that disease will be out of this game."
While Huth will not be available for the game at Craven Cottage, Pulis is hopeful that forward Cameron Jerome, substituted in the Sunderland match due to a dead leg, and midfielder Matthew Etherington, who missed the fixture through illness, will be.
Meanwhile, Pulis refused to be drawn on speculation linking defender Matthew Upson - a potential replacement in the team for Huth - with Shanghai Shenhua of China.
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