The referees at the word cup

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He had one leg on the ground, and therefore NOT a red card. It's in the book of rules, written down. He did not have any cards before. Bull**** card.

 

It's just ridiculous watching people clutching their faces in agony when the replays show that nobody went anywhere near their face.

And players should be marched 10 metres for talking back to the ref. In cricket and rugby, there is no tolerance for the spoilt brat arguing with officials that goes on in soccer.

 

Yes, I think we have already established that play-acting is wrong and is bad for the sport, w're all bored of you going on about it now mate.

It's still the greatest sport in the world though. It'll take more than a bit of rolling around and face clutching to change that.

When compared to football players though, rugby players show amazing restraint. If a 18 stone man tackled me around the head (against the rules in rugby for those not in the know) you better believe I'd be in the refs face shouting my head off and demanding the guy get sent off. But you're liable to sit out 10 mins if you do that in rugby. Madness. I don't know how they do it.

 

Just like I'm bored of seeing these guys play-acting instead of trying to score goals.

 

Stick to cricket and rugby then, and stop commenting on something you obviously don't like .

 

But it could be so much BETTER if they took the teenage tantrums out of the game, by giving the refs more protection.

 

We all know that vidoe replay is the answer to misstakes. But the key is how we do it. We loose time arguing over a card, and treating the injury. In that time we can have a dozen replays viewed by the fourt official.

Keep it simple. view with every booking, red or yellow, every goal, every penalty awarded and big injuries. It is so simple that it is embarrising it is not done.

In fieldhockey a yellow card is also at least 5 min on the bench. And I can say that it works. So why not in football. Lastly, give red for a dive in the box with no contact.

it will be strange for one or two years, ans you can always turn the clock back.

 

Video replay would be the answer to cutting down on reffing mistakes. But I'm firmly against it. What would we have to talk and debate about?

I agree about the automatic red for diving in the box.

I don't agree with the yellow card 'sin bin' type situation. That would be too big a change I think. We want to keep the game to same, just cut down on te amount of diving and play acting.

 

As long as teams have advantage in taking a yellow card for the common good it will not be banned.

there are more little things worse than taking a dive, or the Figo special. The throw-in with the specialist coming to do it from way across the field, walk in the line of the free kick after it is rewarded to prevent taking, and acting stupid as what free kick, how much distance, act blind when a ball kid trows a ball and you really want to play with the one far away, try to earn a corner at the cornerpost. Just book them with yellow.

it will be a year to remember, with many mistakes and arguing, but we want football to be fair so invest a year or so in trial and error.