Lets examine the effect of your football reference and F1. In football, you dive and get a penalty..much like in F1 when you do something wrong you get a drive through. The difference between diving and lying to the stewards though is the benefit of doing so. How many millions of dollars, pounds, chickens is a point in F1 worth?
Well it depends really drive though's and penaltys are to even a situation when somone has done wrong.
Wheras the Yellow - Red - Match Ban is like a disqualifaction because somone has done somthing very wrong several times.
Points in F1 are priceless because it can be the diffrence between winning the WDC and loosing it, so the fact Hamilton and the Team have lot 6 points is enough i feel.
Also, the referee believes he dived and must opt to make that call right that moment...but the player can claim it isn't true..like Schumachers parking fiasco...and there is no PROOF he is lying.
No they have linemen at each corner of the ptich who most of the time can see whats going on so its usual pretty conclusive.
And i belive Schui's telematry + in car video showed it was parked.
and Schui did lie: "i locked up the front and went wide." was his words now thats the same as Lewis saying "i didn't volantary let truli past" in my eyes.
In the liegate affair the PROOF that he is lying is Hamilton crying his eyes out in the press and assuring the world that his team was lying. THAT is what pisses me off so much about his actions....he handed the FIA solid, complete proof that he had not forgotten the radio conversation, there wasn't a mistake in the heat of battle made...he told the world that his team had fabricated a complete lie and then backed that lie for days on end and through more than one questioning....INTENTIONALLY. In other words, if he had kept his ego driven mouth effing SHUT....there was at least SOME reason for the FIA to possibly think the lies were not completely intentional, planned well in advance and executed with no conscience what so ever. That is where the difference lies here. If a football team cheated outright...and then spent days lying to the governing body over it...then held a press conference admitting what they had done....that team would lose more than one game over it. They would have to. This isn't a question of right and wrong, it's a question of what other teams in the future will believe they can get away with..and consequences for acting in the disgraceful manner that McLaren acted in.
Like i said above Schui lied in the same way when questioned. I doubt Lewis had much time to say yes or no and i agree its was wrong for the team and him to lie regadlress if he was forced or not.
Don't think it had anything to do with ego though i think Lewis did the right thing by comming clean takes a bigger man to do that than it does to stay quiet about it and get nothing more than being pushed to the back of the gird losing a potential 6 points.
As far as Schumachers parking job...I was as furious as you are over it...but the difference here is they could not prove what was in his mind when he did it and he wasn't ego stricken and ignorant enough to hold a press conference admitting to the whole thing. If he had been that ignorant, he would have been punished heavier than he was. You have to leave the stewards an out, a reason to wonder whether or not you truly deserve to be bounced on, otherwise they have no choice but to do so. Whatever McLaren get for their actions, it is as much the fault of their egomaniac driver and his press conference as it is anyone in the team who may or may not have directed him. He handed the FIA the proverbial smoking gun..to expect it will not be used against them is just silly.
Like i said i belive the stewards made the decision on telematry + in car/extenal video.
So they belived him to be lieing.
They only think they didn't have was admission of guilt or some SOLID evidence like him saying "i'm going to park it to stop alonso" on the radio.
Which if they did i imgine it wouldn't of been released and he would of got the same punishment.
I mean i can say that i truly belive if Hamilton did that this year in monaco they would disqualify him straight out and prob issue a race ban given the same evidence just because he drives for Mclaren. yet i Massa did it he would get the same as schui.
Futhermore Ferrrari did the same thing as Hamilton in Oz given the same evidence they would of been disqualifed perhaps but there would be no fuss and no WMSC hearing.
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point. 
