If you could change football....
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Has that changed recently then...?Err, they do now! I know you're a Milan fan, but didn't you notice?
How about all clubs donating 10% of their annual income into genetic research, with the purpose of cloning Collina?
That way all the referee based changes would be null and void, as the perfect referee would be in existance.
1/ Video reviews of matches after the match to pick up on "simulation". Any divers given a ban.
2/ Cameras on the goal lines, used only for "did it/didn't it cross" questions.
3/ Only captains can talk to a ref. All refs are microphoned up, allowing TV audiences to hear the exchanges; any swearing therefore rewarded with a red card and lengthy ban.
4/ Cap on the number of players earning over x (say, only 5 players per squad on £50k per week plus). This would still ensure that the best players remained in the English leagues, while stopping clubs like Man City buying everyone without needing to enforce a transfer cap.
5/ Andrea Dossena to be locked in a small room, with only Phillipe Degen for company.
2/ Cameras on the goal lines, used only for "did it/didn't it cross" questions.
3/ Only captains can talk to a ref. All refs are microphoned up, allowing TV audiences to hear the exchanges; any swearing therefore rewarded with a red card and lengthy ban.
4/ Cap on the number of players earning over x (say, only 5 players per squad on £50k per week plus). This would still ensure that the best players remained in the English leagues, while stopping clubs like Man City buying everyone without needing to enforce a transfer cap.
5/ Andrea Dossena to be locked in a small room, with only Phillipe Degen for company.
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People need to get a grip, there are occasions where several things can happen, firstly something can hurt, a lot, at first and you stay down unaware of how bad it is, then quickly get over it and get up. You can't enforce anything to do with things like that as you can not in any way quantify pain and its stupid to try. After having severe pain in my knee for so long if I feel any pain in my knee I instantly stop and wait to see whats what, hopefully i just knocked it and it goes away but I wait and pray that I didn't do something more serious, rather than continue what I was doing and maybe make it worse.
Some situations are similar with diving, sometimes you dive to avoid a massive collision, sometimes you dive out of the way to avoid injury WITHOUT the intention of gaining a freekick/penalty/getting someone sent off. Again its hard to quantify. You shouldn't get a freekick for avoiding a tackle, but you shouldn't get punished either.
average wage being equal is utterly retarded as, as has been pointed out a footballers career doesn't last as long as a teachers, nor do teachers who move up into headmaster, board of education, and up and up make that same salery, in every profession there are incredibly highly paid individuals.
Salery caps to make anyone in the league at least competitive, fine. The clubs get a huge amount of cash from tv money and winnings, even if you come last, somehow somewhere there should be a cap that means based on the average income from various sources that the top of the league can't afford to pay everyone 10 times as much as the bottom of the league. IN reality, you should be looking at maybe a 80k a week salery cap. Considering how many are above that right now, getting it any lower than that is a non starter, and even 80k will be a hard sell for most top clubs to agree.
The thing is if Ronaldo/rooney/Lampard are on 80k, its going to be hard to justify Bent also being on 80k.
Some situations are similar with diving, sometimes you dive to avoid a massive collision, sometimes you dive out of the way to avoid injury WITHOUT the intention of gaining a freekick/penalty/getting someone sent off. Again its hard to quantify. You shouldn't get a freekick for avoiding a tackle, but you shouldn't get punished either.
average wage being equal is utterly retarded as, as has been pointed out a footballers career doesn't last as long as a teachers, nor do teachers who move up into headmaster, board of education, and up and up make that same salery, in every profession there are incredibly highly paid individuals.
Salery caps to make anyone in the league at least competitive, fine. The clubs get a huge amount of cash from tv money and winnings, even if you come last, somehow somewhere there should be a cap that means based on the average income from various sources that the top of the league can't afford to pay everyone 10 times as much as the bottom of the league. IN reality, you should be looking at maybe a 80k a week salery cap. Considering how many are above that right now, getting it any lower than that is a non starter, and even 80k will be a hard sell for most top clubs to agree.
The thing is if Ronaldo/rooney/Lampard are on 80k, its going to be hard to justify Bent also being on 80k.
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1 Goal Line video.
2 General Video technology on Red Card/Penalty/Offside incidents.
3 Mic'd Refs. (that would get a lot of players/managers in real trouble)
i wouldnt introduce a wage cap or transfer fee cap, because if it isnt worldwide then it's pointless.
2 General Video technology on Red Card/Penalty/Offside incidents.
3 Mic'd Refs. (that would get a lot of players/managers in real trouble)
i wouldnt introduce a wage cap or transfer fee cap, because if it isnt worldwide then it's pointless.
as we are one of the biggest leagues in europe, and followed also around the world, if we introduced this here, surely it can be only a good thing, and if the football heirarchies enforced a similiar thing overseas it could be all possible.
the trouble is, no one seems to want to go ahead with this, after all they see big spending clubs, and high payed transfers as a way of advertising football - its just a shame its for all the wrong reasons.
Never in a month of sundays, but a club academy league in simular fashion to the american college setup/
Now this is quickfire and certainly not thought completly through, but top two divisions teams in one big split league for say 16-19 year olds, title playoff championship game..whatever.. (hopefully ofcourse atracting a big audience.. a'la the college game) all royalities being equaly split.
All players in an end of season draft after say 2-3 years, allocations as per league standings and performances.
Players protected from cash transfers till say the age of 25, trades allowed though.
Ofc imposable, footballs a world game, and while it would bring a caring sharing face to the game, the top clubs would never bite having the protential to bring a little more parity to the game, the more money they have, the more likely they nab the best young tallent anyway.
/goes back to dreaming on......
Now this is quickfire and certainly not thought completly through, but top two divisions teams in one big split league for say 16-19 year olds, title playoff championship game..whatever.. (hopefully ofcourse atracting a big audience.. a'la the college game) all royalities being equaly split.
All players in an end of season draft after say 2-3 years, allocations as per league standings and performances.
Players protected from cash transfers till say the age of 25, trades allowed though.
Ofc imposable, footballs a world game, and while it would bring a caring sharing face to the game, the top clubs would never bite having the protential to bring a little more parity to the game, the more money they have, the more likely they nab the best young tallent anyway.
/goes back to dreaming on......
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It would just mean England would fall behind and stop competing in Europe.
I agree with that, but if you dive "out of the way" and then get up whinging for a free-kick you deserve whatever you get.
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The video evidence thing is a non starter for the simple reason that it's very difficult to restart the game if the video footage shows the incident wasn't a goal/free kick/penalty etc. You’d have to have a drop ball or similar which would be ridiculous.
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If a player dives a warning, then a yellow card, then sent off if its not a foul its got to be a dive?
Goals that are cleared off/over the line to be viewed by a video ref, I wouldn't bring in video refs for anything else, any serious foul play can be viewed and judged at a hearing.
Come to Wigan £295 for a season ticket to watch premiership football
Goals that are cleared off/over the line to be viewed by a video ref, I wouldn't bring in video refs for anything else, any serious foul play can be viewed and judged at a hearing.
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Come to Wigan £295 for a season ticket to watch premiership football
He said football not the premiership, still I laugh that people pay over £600 for a season ticket for premiership football, mugs.