I'm more annoyed at the lack of consistency on bookings for stopping breaks, to be honest. Xhaka's was ludicrously obvious, to the point of risking something more than a yellow, but they're often just ignored, depending on who's playing.
My issue is that yellow cards are considered to be something that's worth the risk. So by definition the offending team benefits from conceding them. All deliberate fouls should leave the offending team worse off so there would be no point in doing them.
I hate deliberate cheating but that means for deliberate foul play like shirt pulling, you'll be giving 100s of penalties away each game. As for diers mistimed challenge, i'd say that was deliberate foul play (see it all subjective which will lead to even more inconsistent calls) as he was swinging his leg when the ball was miles away and gone even if werner went down easily. So nope, keep the rules as they are thanks
The basketball "team fouls" regime could help here. There is a team foul total threshold T. Every foul after T means a "free throw" against you. So for football you could have that the player that commits foul T+1 gets the yellow, regardless of the triviality. Add some number N to T, and go again. Now you add some random risk into the game. A player could get a yellow for a trivial offence, which could push them into game ban totals. Or if they are already on a yellow then they are off. A suitable value for T/N can be derived "Big data" styley (there is reams of source data on fouls committed in games to do stats on) .
The deliberate foul by Xhaka resulting in a free kick was of no advantage to Aston Villa. I think that as well as a yellow card it should result in 10 minutes off the pitch. It happens in other sports and I see no reason why it should not be used in football. Getting the wording of the law would take careful consideration, but it would be a way of providing an immediate advantage the opposing team.
Probably. In the Premier League? No. It'll be very annoying when he's at Liverpool. We should've picked him up when they didn't rate him, like I ****ing suggested.
He did but it was referred to him by VAR and he viewed the images over and over again. Dean or VAR, it was the wrong decision.
Ha, couple days after I said he's been the best pound for pound signing in the Prem over the last 12 months. DH strikes again.
