Booooring and other issues

Gazzavaz

Gazzavaz

Gazzavaz

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Hey

Several things about Newcastle - Chelsea (Snore - z zz zzz) today, for me summed up what football in England has become.

To clarify and please feel free to correct me, but i believe deliberate handball is a yellow card offence. Yet twice in two games, Drogba has handled the ball when scrapping with a defender so that he might get a shooting chance.

We all know what the linesman "saw" on sunday against fulham, but even today when the foul is given against him, no card is ever shown.

im sure these next two topics are foremost in referees minds at the moment, but after watching the most boring game of the season, it suddenly began to bug me for the first time.

Diving and the surrounding of the referee. Mark lawrenson (spelt very badly), who is the worst commentator ever after ron atkinson, for once produced a statement of real truth. Who is going to be the first ref to send off 4 or 5 players who are surrounding him, because the minute that happens, no team will ever do it again. I believe a reference was made to Rugby league(possibly union) where this has worked effectively. So why not in the premiership?? Drogba of course never fouls, but the minute someone else touches a chelsea player he runs like the wind to protest.

Diving is making a joke of our football in my very humble opinion. As a united supporter, i will admit to shouting wildly when cristiano and ruud vantheman nistelthepistol rooy fall over like idiots. Not shouting for a penalty mind you, because rather the blatant attempt makes me feel embaressed at times to support such cheats.

Why is this in our game? It happens half as much in the lower leagues compared to the premiership, but why should it be happening at all?
Everyone knows the main culprits, Pires, Van nistelrooy, cristiano, drogba et al but nothing is done to punish them.

Sorry for the ever so long rant, but 90 minutes of my life instead of containing football enjoyment, has lead me to analyse a game that i love to a great extent.

Gaz

P.S yes i hate Drogba, and chelsea for that matter, but Mourinho forever has my respect as a manager so please no comments about how i have picked on DD or the chelski. :)
 
I agree with you about the players surrounding the referee, it should be a new rule that only the captain of each team should be allowed anywhere near the ref when he is making a decision about a booking. And any other player who approaches the ref to get a yellow card. It really really ticks me off watching players badgering the referee like they do every week in the Premiership. I honestly don't blame people who no longer want to become professional referees, it's a crap job.
 
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Couldn't believe the Chelsea divers today, they should all be at the Commonwealth Games!

It was a disgrace!
Geremi
Joe Cole
Del Horno
Drogba (big surprise)
Wright-Phillips
 
I think I more effective way to punish those that go down like they've been shot in the leg is actually to shoot them in the leg, so next time they know the difference and maybe react in a slightly more honest manner ;)
 
I totally agree with the op. Lawrenson is a useless commentator. Also players who surround refs should be booked. 99% of the time once a ref has made his made his mind there is nothing you can do to change it, so why surround him and argue?
 
Gazzavaz said:
Gary Linekar at half time suggesting that they get pink cards for being such big gurls made me laugh
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Wasn’t his suggestion :p was a Letter in from a viewer. Lineker does come up with some wicked witty remarks now and again :D
 
I don't see why footballs governing body don't just try introducing a sin bin in football, and send players who surround referees and dive to the bin for 10 minutes, they'll soon learn not to do it. The sin bin in rugby is very effective, and i'm sure it could be very useful in football as well.

Or they could just ban players from talking to the referee except for the captains, or if the referee speaks to them directly. In rugby you really only ever see the captains speaking to the ref, or players the ref has motioned over, which seems a much better situation in my opinion.
 
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I don't see why footballs governing body don't just try introducing a sin bin in football, and send players who surround referees and dive to the bin for 10 minutes, they'll soon learn not to do it. The sin bin in rugby is very effective, and i'm sure it could be very useful in football as well.

Or they could just ban players from talking to the referee except for the captains, or if the referee speaks to them directly. In rugby you really only ever see the captains speaking to the ref, or players the ref has motioned over, which seems a much better situation in my opinion.
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Sin binning in Rugby is effective because of the nature of the game (The team that controls pressure 99/100 times will win), the variable way to score points and the way defences are organised (also one man short in a RU pack is a killer). Having one man short for a period of 10 minutes is reckoned to be worth about 6-10 points.

In football that would not work because the team that's a man down for that period can just pull most of the team back close up shop, hope to hit the other on the break and wait it out.
 
while i agree, rugby is a game where numbers do make more of a difference than football. I honestly think that in football if 4 players crowded round the referee from one team, and he just sent them all to a sin bin for 10 minutes, managers would soon stop their players doing it.

I understand football teams being able to play with ten men, but if it became 11 against 9 i think it would be much more difficult.

it might lead to some farcical situations for a week or two, but i'm sure the managers would have drummed it into their players heads after a couple of games, and the problem would be solved
 
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