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I think it’s called the Vlade Divac rule.
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Oook!
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I don’t watch sports, but how about putting players who do this up on the big screen complete with superimposed baby diaper, rattle, etc. Nominate a BBG (Biggest Baby of the Game) and give them the full treatment with a permanent online posting. Most sporto-manbabies wouldn’t be able to deal with that.
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Add “checking for blood after an elbow or stick” to Rule 64.1. If the ref can’t see the blood, it’s not enough to tack on another 2 minutes.
Full agreed. I don’t mind shootouts for regular season games. Come playoffs, you play until someone wins. With possible “come back tomorrow and finish it” for truly ridiculous situations (after 3 OTs, perhaps)?
Did I see you do something there? Plus Hockey?
Lol, I remember Italy’s style in those days. Watching Italy in this summer’s tournament, the difference between then and now was astounding.
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There should be an ESPY award for this.
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Regardless of Silva’s nationality, don’t be. They all do this. It’s the main reason I prefer women’s football these days: they usually don’t act like spoiled toddlers (yet, at least), and actually play the damn game.
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Having seen what Cameroon got up to during the last Women’s World Cup, including staging a sit-down protest against the referee and throwing a water bottle at an opponent, I am not inclined to hold up the women’s game in general as an example…
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The only suggestion I like that I haven’t seen tried is to play golden goal extra time but have each team remove a player of their choice every 5 minutes. By the time they’re playing 6-a-side on a full-sized pitch with 120 minutes of football in their legs, someone will score…
Except the match is abandoned if a team has fewer than seven players.
Also, the likelihood is that teams will keep all their defenders on the pitch and remove midfielders and forwards, just from seeing what happens when a player is sent off.
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At the highest levels the game will be televised and that is one reason that, in games where a result is required for the tournament to proceed, a method of ending a game within an agreed period is important – the broadcaster(s) is the prime mover, and while a player nation broadcaster would probably be prepared to extend their broadcast, many others will not, the result is that the sport’s governing body has to accommodate the broadcaster. Penalties is not an ideal solution, although it does require skill and mental toughness – but it does decide the match within a fairly predictable timescale.
btw
In 1968 Euro semi-final Italy beat USSR, after a 0-0 draw, on the flip of a coin. They won the final in a replay after the first was also drawn.
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Introduce a simple rule - if you are injured badly enough that you can’t get off the ground after 10 seconds, you must leave the pitch for treatment for 10 minutes, without substitution.
If a player is injured and requires treatment on the pitch they already have to leave the pitch until they are signalled they can return to the game.
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Fine the club/team/cartel/whatever 50 million euros per drama queening. That’ll get those overpaid nancies to grow up right quick.
That’s about 50 million euros more than most lower league clubs have. I’d rather not have more Macclesfield Town and Bury style liquidations just to stop diving.
Bury FC technically still exist, surprisingly, even if it is just a name and a stadium.
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I am not a fan, so I have no standing. But I always thought that they should enforce that anyone who cannot get up must rest on the bench for 2 minutes before returning to play. That’s appropriate for injured players, and should dis-incentivize play acting.
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If by bench you mean moved to the sidelines of the pitch for treatment and not allowed back on until the referee allows it, then we already have that rule. Occasionally there are Christian Eriksen/Fabrice Muamba type situations where that isn’t appropriate and the referee will stop play until paramedics take over, and could possibly abandon the match.
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