Bristol City have taken the unusual step of writing to every other club in the Championship to explain that they will not kick the ball out of play, unless a player has suffered a genuine head injury. "Somebody goes down and sometimes it's tactical, because people try and gain an advantage and sometimes it's genuine. "So we just decided as a club that we're going to make a rule for the 46 games that we're going to let the referee manage the game. "So therefore if that's our player injured or the opposition player injured, there's a consistency there. "If the referee sees a head injury he will stop the game but if it's not a head injury he will play on. https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport...420.769272301.1565023215-784484662.1564136907
A great move. I hope they extend it to not giving the ball back should a team kick the ball out when one of their own players has a non-serious injury. I also hope that City adopt this policy. I'd estimate that less than 5% of injuries genuinely warrant some sort of immediate stoppage, and it is almost always clear when that is the case, so there's no downside to it as far as I'm concerned.
I'd like to see legislation introduced that limits the number of 'minute's silence's per season. One local (fan/ex player/ex manager) and one national. That's it - except for Force MAGEURE./ truly exceptional circumstances.
