The fallout from the first diving ban handed to a Premier League player has intensified after Wayne Rooney condemned the decision and the referee involved was revealed to have stood by his penalty award.

Two days after Rooney’s Everton team-mate Oumar Niasse was suspended for two matches having been found guilty of committing a ‘Successful Deception of a Match Official’ in winning a fifth-minute penalty at Crystal Palace last weekend, it emerged Anthony Taylor had been satisfied he had not been conned.

The revelation, included in the written reasons for the verdict of the independent regulatory commission which sat in judgment on Niasse on Tuesday, raised questions about the application of a Football Association rule change predicated on match officials being deceived into incorrectly awarding a penalty or sending a player off.

Published on Friday, those written reasons of a three-strong panel, chaired by Blackburn Rovers’ championship-winning winger Stuart Ripley and featuring fellow ex-players Paul Raven and Marvin Robinson, found Niasse had “exaggerated the effect of a normal contact in order to deceive the referee”.

Effectively branding Niasse a cheat, the commission deemed the 27-year-old’s body movement when he and Palace defender Scott Dann had come into contact “were simply not consistent with the amount of force exerted upon him”.