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How is this allowed when you're not even allowed to use slightly different coloured sock tape?
How is this allowed when you're not even allowed to use slightly different coloured sock tape?
Should be mandatory that any hint of a head injury means time off the pitch getting properly checked. Would stop this kind of play acting dead.I’ve seen an increase of players who are faking head injury to stop play and momentum. They know that the referee has to stop play and are using it to their advantage.
I think it’s one thing to simulate or exaggerating an injury, but to fake a serious head injury is something different entirely.
In the 90th minute Mepham in Bournemouth goes down after winning a defensive header against Kane. The cross was not hard, Kane did not collide with his head and he didn’t hit the ground afterwards. He literally made a defensive header which a centre half like himself would have made thousands of times in his career.
He stays on the ground, the team doctor comes on and he has waisted some time and momentum for Spurs and gets to get on the pitch 2 seconds after the ball is dropped to Lucas.
This time, karma had its say and we had our winner about a minute later.
Should they matter? The purpose is to get the ball back into play, as long as it's with two hands, I don't really mind.Foul throws, does it even matter anymore? Referees never enforce the rule!
The average ball in play time in the PL is only 55 minutes. It's pathetic that IFAB focuses so much on doing silly tweaks to the offside and handball laws that people don't have time to understand before they change it again, instead of tackling the real elephant in football's room.There is an epidemic of time wasting in the premier league that seems to be getting worse because our referees are totally useless incompetents.
Since they are too weak and stupid to do their jobs because a proper timekeeper is now required
The average ball in play time in the PL is only 55 minutes. It's pathetic that IFAB focuses so much on doing silly tweaks to the offside and handball laws that people don't have time to understand before they change it again, instead of tackling the real elephant in football's room.
It should be so easy to do something about it, and they are completely blind to it.
Sure, but why have a rule then? ?Should they matter? The purpose is to get the ball back into play, as long as it's with two hands, I don't really mind.
Sure, but why have a rule then? ?
The best commentators are always the ones who know when to shut up. There sadly aren't enough of them around.Can’t disagree with any of this…..
The commentators have taken over but it’s time to let football do the talking | Jonathan Liew
Televised football commentary has gone only one way with more chatter and voices but perhaps less is morewww.theguardian.com
The average ball in play time in the PL is only 55 minutes. It's pathetic that IFAB focuses so much on doing silly tweaks to the offside and handball laws that people don't have time to understand before they change it again, instead of tackling the real elephant in football's room.
It should be so easy to do something about it, and they are completely blind to it.
Not sure it would. I think the whole idea is to disrupt the game. Maybe if two minutes per sub was added. But even then it probably wouldn’t stop it.Good point. It could be stopped completely of course, if the referee stopped his watch every time a substitution was made*, or an injury occurred. I think all those players who fake injuries would very soon pack it in if that happened.
* I hate the idea of managers of winning teams making a number of substitutions a few minutes before the end for no other reason apart from wasting what little time may be left, so the ref stopping the watch every time that happened would soon put a stop to it.