Welcome to theguardian.com's review of the 2011-12 Premier League season. An extraordinary campaign is nearing its end and we would like you to help us choose your favourite goal, the best signing and the best manager, as well as seven other categories.

We have nominated some contenders, but this is just to get the discussion going: we would like your suggestions so that we can compile the best into final polls that you can vote on. The season doesn't finish until Sunday afternoon so the nomination blogs will be up and running later that evening, with the polls open from Monday 14 May. Thanks.

Goalline technology

Weird that no one ever mentions this, eh? You'd think that with players as high-profile as Frank Lampard having good goals chalked off and bad goals, um, chalked on, then someone would suggest that it's about time that football's mudhut got a makeover. Poohpoohers complain that this would take the sport farther away from the parks but proponents retort that shunning technology actually makes football more alien to the man in the street, who is apt to spend his days watching multiple replays of contentious incidents on a dashboard device in his souped-up Smart car while forming a deep and meaningful relationship with a sultry hologram from Manila. Others contend that while it's good to be correct, it's even better to argue about who's correct.

Retrospective punishment for diving

Diving does not cause as much damage as a punch in the face but somehow it feels dirtier. At least physical brutality has a blue-collar honesty about it, whereas simulation is a despicable white collar crime, an administrative slight of hand or foot. Public opprobrium has done nothing to dissuade divers for the very good reason that diving pays. Only firm action can eradicate it: technology can help – if suspected fraud on the field of play is reviewed by a panel consisting of, say, a referee, a former player and a preening Hollywood diva, and a ban is dished out to anyone found guilty, then players may get to thinking that it is not worth diving. On the other hand, we could just claim that cheating is a skill and those who do it well deserve to get away with it.

Post-match press conferences for referees

There is a view that referees should attend post-press conferences to explain their decisions. This view is particularly prevalent among two groups of people: a) journalists, who could thus interrogate officials to try to establish whether corruption is afoot and/or to get some quotes from their chosen scapegoat; and b) managers, who, after being denied a penalty or a corner or whatever, could at least get the satisfaction of seeing officials publicly take responsibility for their errors. Others maintain that so long as referees are not given the benefit of video assistance, then forcing them to attend press conferences where they are quizzed by people who have had such assistance is simply to expose them to unfair humiliation.

Change the penalty law

Not all fouls in the box are serious enough for a penalty to be a proportionate punishment. A free-kick would suffice. Similarly, many fouls that are committed outside the box deny a clear goal-scoring chance but the wronged team is only compensated with a free-kick outside the area, for which the guilty team gets to erect a wall and reorganise. Sure, the aggressor may also be sent off but that is not always a suitable sanction – especially if the foul occurs in the last few minutes, giving the wronged team little time to make use of their numerical advantage, meaning the aggressor has effectively exploited a loophole in the law. To close that loophole and apply proper justice, referees should be allowed to award penalties if they consider that a foul has sabotaged a clear goal-scoring chance, regardless of where it took place.

Sin-bins

Another device that is used successfully in other sports but which football shuns. It might be particularly useful in dealing with misdemeanours of passion, especially verbal ones, when a 10-minute cooling off period would allow red mist to disperse. It could also be a more appropriate punishment than a red card for two relatively minor bookable offences.

• Now check out the other nine categories:

Pundit of the season

Player of the season

Manager of the season

Goal of the season

Match of the season

Signing of the season

Flop of the season

Gripe of the season

League of the season