Going down holding your head/face, when you haven’t been touched there, would be gone from the game within a week if players knew VAR would check and they’d get a straight red.
Not only is stopping the game by feigning a head injury downright cheating, but it’s abusing a measure put in place for the safety of all players.
Holding your head or face for the purpose of stopping the game, should certainly carry some form of punishment, if not captured by VAR in the match, then most certainly should be dealt with retrospectively… Common sense might need to apply, in the cases when a player holds his head/face, as a natural reaction to being in pain from a bad tackle to the ankle or the likes…
It will certainly go someway to eliminating this ‘cheating’ practice from the game though…
I like the intent with everything on the list. It won’t happen, but I’d like to see a lot of the nonsense that blights the game eradicated. The list is a decent effort.
I like 1, I hate the so called professional foul, especially like Lewis Skelly’s wherevthe just kick a player when nowhere near the ball
I quite like the sound of that. A good referee should be able to cool tempers but there is definitely a case for a cool down period as something that he could call on. I would fully expect certain PGMOL refs to abuse it.
Whilst I think rule 1 could have potential to be a great option, the biggest issue is refs can’t apply the currnet rules consistently, so not sure how that would make things any better without improving the standard of refereering
Yeah it wouldn’t be enforced correctly and judgement would come into it at times.
https://x.com/_pauljoyce/status/1907715464794382673‚
Gee, thanks. It was a leg-breaker and that cunt of a referee didn’t see it even though he was looking at it directly from a few metres - not to mention VAR. Mac Allister has been on the wrong end of challenges that are probably forbidden in all but a few sports over the last two seasons, I don’t know how he managed to sustain them.
Assholes
he’s not going to get punished now. Admit the fault and get him a 2 match ban for a direct red card. Its not going to be enough but atleast let it be something that will cost everton in other matches
Nah
Let him play against Arsenal. A ban is no good to us now. Imagine the whining on Saturday if he clocks Saka or Rice?
Tierney on the other hand should be stood down.
he will be a liability if he plays againt Arsenal. Refs will be booking him for the slightest tackle.
Maybe you are correct. Over compensation for the shite decision last night
Rather he played against them mind.
Interesting stat from Dale Johnson’s piece on the midweek fixtures.
Over the last 2 seasons the PGMOL have identified 10 cases where VAR incorrectly failed to address an call the ref missed/ignored. Tierney is responsible for 4 of them. No other ref has more than 1
Maybe that is a reflection of him being a senior official him doing VAR more often? That piece doesnt say, but that’s a shocking stat.
Always felt it would be the concern the other way around.
Like on Sunday I can’t see Donohue forcing Kav to the screen if say a penalty is missed. Especially for us.
The only way to make amends is for Everton to be down to 10 men for the exact duration that Tarkowski should have had a red when we play them again.
In all serious, it’s a rule that needs looking at.
If, on Wednesday, Tarkowski or Beto got a second yellow late in the game against us, they would have served that ban against Arsenal, our closest rivals this season. That can’t be right.
I would change that rule so that bans will be served at a time of the offended team’s choosing.
Easy. The next league fixture against us. If the offence happened in the current season’s second league fixture then it carries over to next season’s first league fixture.
(Unless they get relegated of course muahahahahahah)