RIO/TERRY-AND THE REST

jacko,

I couldn't agree more.

Jacko in - Blatter out.

I'd only need a week to sort it out...
rule 1. No swearing at the ref or lino...Red card otherwise.
rule 2. Feigning injury, fouls,...Red Card.
rule 3. Failure to act under the 'principles of fair play and sportsmanship'...Clubs heavily fined and points deducted...

No appeals.

End of.


That should wake the beggars up...

Thank you,

I like rule 2, but what if a Ref deems a player had feigned injury, sent him off, but his medical report comes back as injured and his team of ten players lost?

jacko..
the first major change i want to see is a timekeeper.. stop the clock everytime the ball is not in play... we pay for 90 minutes, the players get paid(a lot) for 90 minutes and yet the average time the ball is "in play" is around 22.5 minutes a half..
Add on a minute injury time for the first half and 3/4 in the second and we are still being ripped off to some tune..

Add a yellow card immediately for any time wasting and we might see a full game.. no point ars-ing about with "time tactical" substitutions , you are still going to play every second... It wouldnt take long for the clubs to get their act together, we might get a few long games to start with but even footballers/managers would realise they were shooting themselves in the foot..
If a player rolls about and screams in pain and anguish then he is hurt and a mandatory 3/4 minutes should elapse before the ref allows him back on(health and safety etc) to be sure he can carry on, i guarantee much less "feigning" having been taken out by a sniper from the top tier.. All "proper" injuries take as long as that to assess...

Inter...we've all seen players stay down after feigning some career ending injury...eventualy the ref stroles over to look at him, asks if he is really hurt...then summons the medical team on to sort him...and take him off limping badly or staggering to his death bed...only for the guy to suddenly recover as soon as he's off the pitch...dash to half way line and play merry hell that his appeals to rejoin the action are being ignored.

What to do ?

mandatory 5 minute recovery period for all injuries where the trainer is required and the player goes off the field... That'll sort it out. If it's a foul by an opponent that causes the injury, then the opponent is booked and also goes off for 5 minutes, or red carded in which case he's off anyway.

No subs are allowed for players in 'recovery time'...

That'll make players wary of going down claiming a near death situation, they'll be pleading with the ref not to bring the trainer on...

It only needs to be implemented as a law, because the players will wise up after 30 minutes and it will never be a problem again.

If a player hurts himself, by turning an ankle for example, then he is allowed to make his own way off the pitch without play being stopped...He can return only when the ref agrees to it.

Sorted !

I know non of this will be implemented by the way...My 1st instinct to have a sniper in the stand who simply shoots the annoying barstewards I resisted posting...

According to the BBC Website 14.7.2012, “Professional Footballers' Association chairman Clarke Carlisle believes there should be a clampdown on foul and abusive language in football.”

He reckons that, "In order to change it, it would take a very strong line from the referees, a very strong line from the governing bodies and it would probably cause mayhem for the short-term period.”

It would seem that Carlisle is aware of the laws of world football's governing body, FIFA, which state "using offensive, insulting or abusive language and/or gestures" is a sending-off offence, because he points out, "We do have the regulations within the game in order to stamp out any kind of foul and abusive language but they are just not enforced to the nth degree."

There are other laws that are ignored in present-day football. Law 12, ‘Impeding the Progress of an Opponent’, which used to be deemed ‘Obstruction’, is the classic example. It is now called 'shielding the ball', and is hardly ever penalised, no matter how blatant. At corner kicks, and free kicks, impeding the progress of an opponent is rife, and it doesn’t even have an ‘excuse name’.

Impeding the progress of an opponent means moving into the path of the opponent to obstruct, block, slow down or force a change of direction by an opponent when the ball is not within playing distance of either player.

I came across the following quote about impeding/obstructing, with which I agree completely... “It is a miserable, ugly facet of the contemporary game and, unlike so many other recent manifestations of change in the way football is played, blatantly anti-creative. I hate it.”

Law 12 again... “A direct free-kick is awarded to the opposing team if a player… holds an opponent. A penalty kick is awarded if... the... offence is committed by a player inside his own penalty area”. Shirt pulling, anyone?

Law 14, ‘The Penalty Kick’, has a list of infringements and sanctions, some of which apply when players of either team enter the penalty area when a penalty kick is being taken. Occasionally, in the lower leagues, one sees a penalty retaken for encroachment, but at the top level, the cavalry charge tends to go unpunished.

Mr. Carlisle obviously means well with his campaign to outlaw foul language, but can anyone see the “very strong line” being taken by the governing bodies, when the examples I have quoted above are generally ignored?

I remember a game after which a television replay sequence showed an incident in the penalty area, where a defender grabbed a handful of an opponent’s shirt , pulling it back at least some twelve inches, and surprise, surprise, a penalty was actually awarded. The defender’s manager in a post-match interview came up with the classic defence... “There might have been a little tug, but you see it in every game.”

Then there are the pundits, who are scared of losing their considerable income if they should dare to criticise the game. Alan Shearer, whom the Daily Mail claimed is paid £500,000 per annum by the BBC, condones foul play on the football flagship programme, ‘Match Of The Day’, with comments like, “Technically it’s a foul, but... “

Yes, 38 let’s have official timekeepers. Knowing your love of Rugby League, I am sure you will be aware that they already exist in the 'man’s game'. At the Galpharm Stadium, there is a digital clock, located at the back of the Fantastic Media Stand lower tier, which counts down each half, from 40 minutes. When the clock reads 00:00, the hooter sounds. No arguments!

A far more constructive post than my random rant Captain...the rules are there but refs are instructed to be lenient. Shirt pulling is rife, in fact soemtimes in dumbfounds me that a penalty is not given...

As for penalties, 9 out 10 times players are in the box when the kick is taken...the only exception is at play-off penalty shoot outs...although if you watch the replays you'll Smithies well off his line for at least 2 Sheff Utd kicks...

I also like the phrase " ooh, only just offside..." like "ohh only just dead"... if you're off, you're off.

But hey, we don't want to spoil the flow of the game do we...how much action do we get did you say...22 minutes per half ? Yeah, right.

clarke carlisles programme.."Is football rascist"?

no...some people who just happen to be employed in football/watch football as supporters are...

He then failed to make any particular headway into how to deal with it..

He then happily watched a match between 2 under 14 teams.. The Dunstable team had white/African/ mixed race players, the team from Luton was 100% Asian..
He never commented or asked the obvious question, he just was pleased that the Asian team were winning by a shed load??????

Clarke... you are not helping....If you dont ask the question, if you dont see the problem then you add to it...

Very poor, very typical Documentary from todays broadcasters.. Similar to the "staged" one that they did about Euro 2012 before it took place..(the asian youths being attacked was obviously very real) the rest was strangely unreal, somehow...

Trouble is, many Media sources now make their own news stories with this sort of rubbish.

Do you want to know how many Black MP's there are, compared to Black players in the Premier League ?

I'll tell you..27 out of 650 MP's are black, that's 4% ..

In the Premier League 30% of players are black.

there's a story there, surely......