Independent time keeper. Ball in play for x minutes so time wasting is done away with overnight. Not even a difficult option!
This! It's the answer...so simple and could be introduced immediately.The only outlay is a decent stop watch.
Independent time keeper. Ball in play for x minutes so time wasting is done away with overnight. Not even a difficult option!
Maybe it's time to introduce "shot clocks" - big visible display on scoreboard every time a team has a goal kick/throw-in/keeper has ball in his hands. Countdown from 10 (or whatever) and indirect free kick given to the opposition if the time expires. Referee controls when the timer startsI would say an immediate yellow card for the clear time wasting, even very early in the game. It is clear that they are slowing the game down and reducing it to a number of stop start episodes. Yellow card, no exceptions.
And, for head injuries, a mandatory ten minute substitution, whether you're faking it ir not. If you hold your head when you go down , your head is hurt, and a ten minute assessment is required. No exceptions.
This won't happen either.
He was just conning the crowd, making out he would add on time, but they rarely doIn the first half the referee kept looking at the Reading players, every time they took a minute over each throw in then added on two minutes ffs![]()
He was just conning the crowd, making out he would add on time, but they rarely do
Maybe it's time to introduce "shot clocks" - big visible display on scoreboard every time a team has a goal kick/throw-in/keeper has ball in his hands. Countdown from 10 (or whatever) and indirect free kick given to the opposition if the time expires. Referee controls when the timer starts
it is getting worse every game now, if not a joke only 2 mins added on in the first half, 2 of their players just plonk themselves down on the pitch, have they no bottle ? our players should do it tomorrow at QPR if we are winning but i don't want that i hope we keep pushing them back etc. a player should get off the pitch have a quick check over, and these physios are taking way too long, they have not got a broken neck etc just a tap most of the time. get a stretcher straight on in the future also the goalkeepers are the biggest offenders, this should be sorted.
That doesn't fit with the autocratic agenda of the stiffs at the FAWhy don’t the FA have a simple poll asking fans what is really pissing them off and what needs to be changed.
I bet time wasting is at the top.
Unfortunately with the FA they don’t like to be told these things and prefer to make up their own decisions totally ignoring the fans.
And then the referees complain about the abuse they get from the fans and players, do your job and most of it will go away.
Sorry like but that's not true. Every ref in this country from the Premier League, right down to grass roots levels takes unnecessary abuse from fans. If a ref makes a decision against a team, he has often hounded by the fans. Rarely do you get a set of fans hold their hands up and admit the ref got a decision right against them. The kind of "soft" penalty they criticise the refs for giving against them, they will also criticise the refs if they don't get given in their favour and it suddenly because "stonewall".
Refs are easy targets for abuse and sadly as recent discussions show, it's often physical abuse at a grass roots level.
The standard of refereeing is going to get worse in football simply because it's not going to be worth it to do the job for many people. Less competition, so the standard drops.
My Grandson 15 yr old is a qualified junior referee and he does from under 7 to 14s.I get that but the frustration of the fans stems from a lot of obvious issues on the pitch that can be corrected, abuse will never be gone completely but it would certainly be reduced imo.
Linesmen seem to be unable to flag for fouls right in front of them, referees and 4th officials are terrible at adding the appropriate time for time-wasting and they all need help when players surround the ref. Only the captain should be able to and anyone else having a go should get an instant card.
Grass roots is a tough one, they should never be at a match on their own and any abuse should be an instant docked points or something similar.