What's Grinding Your Gears - Football Edition

[cwy21]

Players on £50k a week or more that say they don’t know the hand ball rule. It’s kind of like your job mate. Read the rules or ask someone to explain it to you if you’re really that thick.

UEFA referee committee puts out sets of video clips from UEFA Competitions twice a year with hundreds of examples of exactly what refs are being trained to call.

I watch them as an American ref. I imagine the teams could easily get use out of them if they wanted.

 

[Nice One Cyril]

The greed. .
Train staff wanting more when everyone else is suffering - the greed.
Fuel price hike by companies after record profits - the greed.
Both have us by the balls. The train lot threaten strike which will stop the rest of us earning a living. Fuel we all end up paying more for everting because.

The example being set by the government is not helping at all.

 

[Serpico]

The example being set by the government is not helping at all.

Why can’t fuel companies just do the right thing. Trains driver earn a decent wedge - it needs to stop, passengers will face more financial hardship. Everyone should take to the roads or work from home and boycott the trains in protest. Turn it on it’s head. Make them suffer.

 

[Spurslove]

I hate it when you see players crowd around the ref, all screaming and (probably) swearing at him every time he gives a decision against them. Just fucking grow up and get on with it, earning your outrageous money.

 

[nailsy]

I hate it when you see players crowd around the ref, all screaming and (probably) swearing at him every time he gives a decision against them. Just fucking grow up and get on with it, earning your outrageous money.

I wish the refs would just book one of them every time it happened. It would soon stop. One of the refs did it recently didn't they? I can't remember who it was though.

 

[Spurslove]

I wish the refs would just book one of them every time it happened. It would soon stop. One of the refs did it recently didn't they? I can't remember who it was though.

Can't help you there I'm afraid. When four or five players surround the ref and you can see him motioning them away but they don't listen, it just does my head in. Maybe there should be a rule stringently installed which says only the team captains can speak to the ref or the linesmen, that might help, but I do agree, if the refs booked these players for harrassing them, that might be the answer, especially if they've already been booked for something else...!

 

[bradfordspur]

Can't help you there I'm afraid. When four or five players surround the ref and you can see him motioning them away but they don't listen, it just does my head in. Maybe there should be a rule stringently installed which says only the team captains can speak to the ref or the linesmen, that might help, but I do agree, if the refs booked these players for harrassing them, that might be the answer, especially if they've already been booked for something else...!

Football should really be looking at copying rugby and introducing a ’sin bin’ rather than risk a sending off for petty offences (including persistent fouling). Will always be an argument that this cannot be implemented across all levels of the game, but it didn’t stop VAR.

 

[kr1978]

I hate it when you see players crowd around the ref, all screaming and (probably) swearing at him every time he gives a decision against them. Just fucking grow up and get on with it, earning your outrageous money.

Totally with you on this. Should be captain only and anyone else should be booked, it would be carnage for a few weeks with all the yellows but they’d soon stop.

 

[BoringOldFan]

Haven’t read all 28 pages, but have we had one-footed players yet? They’re professionals yet the vast majority have only learned to use one foot, as if using both is cheating. No coincidence imo that our Son/Kane combo is incredibly successful and both are two footed. Starting even with the wingbacks, if they could cut inside and shoot they would contribute half a dozen or More goals a season.

And Kulusevski wouldn’t trip over his own feet ?

 

[easley91]

Can't remember if I said it before, but VAR not being able to be used to for corners/goal kicks and throw-ins. Would take seconds to look at. Annoys me when it's blatantly obvious yet given the other way.

 

[cwy21]

Can't remember if I said it before, but VAR not being able to be used to for corners/goal kicks and throw-ins. Would take seconds to look at. Annoys me when it's blatantly obvious yet given the other way.

The main argument I've heard against that is that it would open Pandora's box.

If you can do corners why not free kicks? And would it be every free kick or just those near the penalty area? And if we're looking at free kicks why not yellow cards?

 

[easley91]

The main argument I've heard against that is that it would open Pandora's box.

If you can do corners why not free kicks? And would it be every free kick or just those near the penalty area? And if we're looking at free kicks why not yellow cards?

To be honest it should look at everything shouldn't it? And why is it only "clear and obvious"? It's meant to be there to help officials on the pitch. If someone is booked and shouldn't have been or vice versa, then I'm all for correct decisions being made. Now I get the time argument, so set a clock on it. If they can't come to a decision in say a minute or two then on field decision stays.

If a corner is incorrectly given and then a goal is subsequently scored from it, I'd be fuming. That's why I think they should be included. As should free-kicks and yellow cards.

 

[Leoparden]

When a corner, a cross or another ball has been over the line high in the air, and then bends back into play. It annoys me, and I would love if the rule was if it touches anything over the line (player, ground etc) it would be ruled out.
It would also give opportunities for some interesting corners tactics etc!

 

[taidgh]

To be honest it should look at everything shouldn't it? And why is it only "clear and obvious"? It's meant to be there to help officials on the pitch. If someone is booked and shouldn't have been or vice versa, then I'm all for correct decisions being made. Now I get the time argument, so set a clock on it. If they can't come to a decision in say a minute or two then on field decision stays.

If a corner is incorrectly given and then a goal is subsequently scored from it, I'd be fuming. That's why I think they should be included. As should free-kicks and yellow cards.

Because the game would take about 3 hours if var was used for everything. It would render the game completely unwatchable.

 

[taidgh]

Btw @A Bit Much and @Spurslove a bit harsh with the spam ratings. They obviously thought they were in the other grinding your gears thread.

 

[Japhet]

The main argument I've heard against that is that it would open Pandora's box.

If you can do corners why not free kicks? And would it be every free kick or just those near the penalty area? And if we're looking at free kicks why not yellow cards?

Maybe a review system like in cricket. One incident review per team each half.

 

[bradfordspur]

Because the game would take about 3 hours if var was used for everything. It would render the game completely unwatchable.

This would be well on the way to American football with 4 * 15 minute quarters, plenty of time for more ads,

 

[BoringOldFan]

The main argument I've heard against that is that it would open Pandora's box.

If you can do corners why not free kicks? And would it be every free kick or just those near the penalty area? And if we're looking at free kicks why not yellow cards?

Free kicks are much more subjective as we’ve seen with penalty decisions. It would take less time than a player takes to pick up the ball for the throw in or corner just to check if there had been ‘a clear and obvious mistake’. Many times the players block the ref’s view so it would clear up a lot of the current mistakes.

 

[Tucker]

It annoys me that what is essentially the third tier of English football is called “League One.” It’s a nonsense.

 

[SirHarryHotspur]

This would be well on the way to American football with 4 * 15 minute quarters, plenty of time for more ads,

And if we get anymore US investors taking over English clubs you could be right more breaks in games .

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