Improving Football in General

[JamesWelshFox]

This rant is all about justice within the game at hand.

 

I have just watched Man Utd v Bournemouth and it highlights perfectly the things that need to change in the management and refereeing of the game, to improve it for all.

 

1. Lets have a video referee in contact with the pitch referee, so that the pitch referee can ask the video referee to clarify something whilst the game is in play, and/or the video referee can alert the pitch referee to incidents and/or clarify things where there is a break in play. This way you have justice within the game, what use is retrospective punishment if you just lost 1-0 and the bloke who scored shouldn't have been on the pitch. This way Mings and Ibrahimavic both get sent off and you have a different game.

 

2. Bring in the sin bin for 10 minute stints, so that a yellow card actually means something. Players will soon start to think twice about taking one for the team.

 

3. Only a captain and any one else invited to approach the referee should speak to him, everyone else should retreat 10 yards or expect 10 minutes in the bin. These over paid whining mules need to learn a little respect.

 

4. Give the referee the ability to stop the clock. None of this overtime rubbish, it cuts out the player walking off taking 2 minutes knowing only 30 seconds will be added, and at the end of each half the game ends with the next stoppage. If everyone knows this there is no disadvantage, and we get a full game and less time wasting. I don't pay to see them rolling round on the floor feigning injury just to jump up the next second, they need to earn their money.

 

Come on the powers that be, be brave and clean up the game I love.

 

 

[rmahrez]

Don't agree with the sin bin. But some of these blatant hacks to bring a player down that's breaking e.g. Mahrez vs Sevilla are unacceptable. In my view, if it happens once it's a yellow, but the second time, even if its a different player they should be given a straight red.

[Tuna]

I can't understand why it's so difficult for Football to initiate video technology.

 

It's ridiculous that the whole stadium knows a decision is wrong seconds after it's been given. Refs are only human, they need help. It can't be that difficult to organize.

[JamesWelshFox]

Had an email reply from David Elleray, now at the IFAB, they met yesterday and most of my moans above are being trialled over the next 2 years at different levels of the game. I was stoked to get an email from David though !

[Webbo]

I read today that there'll be a video ref in the FA cup next season.

[Firegrande]

Just now, Webbo said:

I read today that there'll be a video ref in the FA cup next season.

According to Jermaine Jenas on bt sport yes they will be 

[matty98]

Woludn't want sin bins, think the current system is fine. Agree with video referees, would make the game fairer.

[Finnegan]

I agree with 1 and 3.

 

I don't want to see a lot of stoppages during a game of football or going back to decisions several minutes back because a video ref has seen something. It works in rugby, it wouldn't in football.

 

However, I would like to see a video ref watching for violent conduct that the ref may have missed. Zlatan and Mings were both blatantly red cards, if the ref didn't see them you have to sympathise with him but it's ridiculous that the whole world can see then in the replay but a video ref can't be in the ear of the officials and letting him send them both off retrospectively.

 

It's like Aguero getting done for that punch a while back. The ban is okay but it helps the teams they're due to play, not the team of the bloke he punched.

 

As for captains talking to the ref, I've long wanted that brought in. Football is miles behind rugby when it comes to officiating the game.

[Arkie Bennett]

I get annoyed when I see teams take out an opposing player during a quick counter-attack, usually after he's released the ball; referees often give the advantage because the attacking team still have the ball, yet the foul has left them one man short and the attack fizzles out. Liverpool did it when Arsenal counter-attacked this evening, and although the Liverpool player was booked, he'd successfully scuppered the Arsenal attack with the aid of the referee playing the advantage. A 10-minute spell in a "sin bin" might have been a fairer punishment.

[ozleicester]

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[Vacamion]

I don't see what's wrong with a sin bin.

 

Too often foul play is under-punished and therefore worthwhile to carry out, or else over punished and ruins the game as a competition or, as pointed out above, helps future opposition not current and wronged opposition.

 

Red cards should be for leg breakers, punches, clotheslining the last man, etc.

 

We see players going off and games being ruined for trivial (and sometimes non-existent) offences.

 

I say get the bin in.

 

[Awaits Hodgson "bin" pic in response]

[davieG]

4 hours ago, Vacamion said:

I don't see what's wrong with a sin bin.

 

Too often foul play is under-punished and therefore worthwhile to carry out, or else over punished and ruins the game as a competition or, as pointed out above, helps future opposition not current and wronged opposition.

 

Red cards should be for leg breakers, punches, clotheslining the last man, etc.

 

We see players going off and games being ruined for trivial (and sometimes non-existent) offences.

 

I say get the bin in.

 

[Awaits Hodgson "bin" pic in response]

Agree, sin bins can be the halfway house between Yellows and Reds.

[Nalis]

Not sure abouts only captains talking to the referee. Its a good idea in rugby because the players are generally in one area of the pitch. If De Gea ws the Utd captain yesterday then everyone would have to wait until he ran 100 yards to the penalty area after the Mings/Ibra incidents to discuss things with the referee. Unless you nominated 2 players of course.