please log in to view this image Football - Serie B to introduce 'green card' for good behaviour The Italian second division will this weekend roll out a novel scheme to encourage fair play - but will it work? You can earn green cards by putting the ball out of play, assisting the referee and even by owning up to diving in the penalty area. http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/italian-serie-b-introduce-green-6380993 Reminds me of this man: please log in to view this image Di Canio wins Fair Play award Fair Play by Paolo Di Canio
Reminds me of this man I had a shorter video posted but it was one of those that the owner doesn't allow to be posted on another website!!
Funny looking at that video, my lads didn't get many but they've got that cream shirt. We finished 4th that year with 2 Newcastle, 3 Arsenal and 4 us all having 68 points, position decided on goal difference.
"Owning up to diving" is an odd phrase. My interpretation of diving is that it's a dishonest attempt to gain advantage- so who would be deliberately dishonest and immediately own up to it? An honest player just doesn't dive in the first place.
I was just commenting on the phrasing in the OP. Do you mean how would I describe the Fowler incident? I imagine he hurdled Seaman and fell on landing but didn't think he'd been fouled and so it wasn't a pen. Hasn't he explained it more or less like this himself since?
Shouldn't be rewarding players for playing the game right, just punishing those who cheat. This is really going to confuse me though. I play Hockey with a three card system already; Green = 2 Minute sin bin. Usually given for mouthing off, bad tackles after a warning. Yellow = 5-15 minute sin bin. Persistent fouling, arguing etc or for a really bad deliberate foul. Red = Game over man, 30days - 6 month ban. Generally when you get this its because you've twatted some (on purpose) with the stick. I think refs have been showing a willingness to be harsher this year, especially on diving, although last week you could say they were too harsh as there were alot of Red Cards in one day. Also why should players put the ball out for injured opposition? If its a head injury, then yes stop the game, if the player is literally dying on the pitch again stop the game. However if the player has gone down because they got tackled, play the **** on, might encourage players to stop exaggerating injuries (also wouldn't have the Chelsea situation)
I got a bit confused there I hadn't read the OP properly and thought your comment was about Fowler owning up to diving - so I look a bit silly now I was imagining a headline something like 'Fowler's owning up to diving isn't seen by referee' and was wondering how it could be better headlined. A bit of a pointless exercise now
Admitting diving is the wrong way to put it, admitting there was no foul would be better. "no ref, he didn't trip me I caught my studs in the turf" or "he got the ball clean ref, i tripped over him".
We could start nice and simple by say, not appealing for a throw in when the ball clearly struck them last. I'd settle for that
Indoor 5 aside We had a blue card. Had to sit out 2 mins (or until other team scored whichever happened first.) 2 blues equalled a yellow too.
Sort of ridiculous idea, thought it's a long time till April 1st at first ... games are won on small percentages and balance of decisions so players keeping quiet about a goal kick if the ball grazed them on its way out and should be a corner for the opp, for example, is part and parcel of that, so is falling over or diving as it's known. Can't see why any team, manager or players would take it on themselves to lose out on those small % that can mean the difference between 3 points and none. In the modern game why would anybody other than the governing bodies encourage this?? They wouldn't, unless there was some kind of points reward that had an impact on final league position which there isn't, only the well behaved players name on a list at the end of the season.
Do you want him to? What if you're 1-0 up or drawing and the other team are laying siege to your goal?
