If the keeper needs treatment when he has recovered the captain has to go off for the 30 seconds. If the keeper is the captain then the opposition chooses the player to go off in his place.
Whilst we are at it each team should only be permitted 1 yellow card for timewasting. If a second player on a team time wastes for an amount of time the deserves a booking they walk.
Biggest problem is that timewasting is good for TV. It allows them to show replays, the crowd, the manager and subs bench. There isn't a desire with the powers that be to stop it
My solution is quite radical, but I think it would work.
With so many matches now filmed by multi camera OBs, perhaps all of these incidents could be looked at in detail, post match, to see if there had actually been any sort of contact with the goalkeeper.
In fact, this could be extended to outfield ‘head injuries’, which are also used as a time wasting method because the referee has to stop play when one is claimed.
So what I suggest is that the EFL has a team that examines these instances, and when they find that there *is* evidence of fakery, the player involved receives a three match ban. Perhaps even a points deduction for the club in extreme cases, for example when the match result leads to that club reaching the playoffs.
[Sam] Camera Man Jim, the name appears to suggest you have a vested - perhaps financial - stake in this solution 😁. I love that.
Seriously, this feels like a sensible idea. A bit like VAR, I fear the whataboutery, though. If your keeper gets a 3-match ban, but the opposition keeper who faked an injury in the same game is somehow not picked up, there will be whole new levels of focus on a decision-making process that would inevitably be opaque. That said, unlike VAR, the retrospective part of this means the game isn't slowed down, which is good. Still, it's so subjective. A 'keeper can jump, catch the ball, and go down holding an ankle - who's to say they haven't felt something?
We have this conversation pretty much every week, about how to stop it
I think the referee should just start booking them earlier
They do it most games and some are doing it inside the first 5 minutes, but don’t get booked until the last 3, and even though we know they won’t send him off with repeatedly doing it
if they keep doing it on a regular game basis, it won’t be long before they get banned under the totting up process
[Sam] Yes! But as mentioned in the article, it's a ploy to kill momentum as much time waste. And the stop-watch is fraught with more problems, I think.
If the keeper needs treatment when he has recovered the captain has to go off for the 30 seconds. If the keeper is the captain then the opposition chooses the player to go off in his place.
Whilst we are at it each team should only be permitted 1 yellow card for timewasting. If a second player on a team time wastes for an amount of time the deserves a booking they walk.
Biggest problem is that timewasting is good for TV. It allows them to show replays, the crowd, the manager and subs bench. There isn't a desire with the powers that be to stop it
My solution is quite radical, but I think it would work.
With so many matches now filmed by multi camera OBs, perhaps all of these incidents could be looked at in detail, post match, to see if there had actually been any sort of contact with the goalkeeper.
In fact, this could be extended to outfield ‘head injuries’, which are also used as a time wasting method because the referee has to stop play when one is claimed.
So what I suggest is that the EFL has a team that examines these instances, and when they find that there *is* evidence of fakery, the player involved receives a three match ban. Perhaps even a points deduction for the club in extreme cases, for example when the match result leads to that club reaching the playoffs.
[Sam] Camera Man Jim, the name appears to suggest you have a vested - perhaps financial - stake in this solution 😁. I love that.
Seriously, this feels like a sensible idea. A bit like VAR, I fear the whataboutery, though. If your keeper gets a 3-match ban, but the opposition keeper who faked an injury in the same game is somehow not picked up, there will be whole new levels of focus on a decision-making process that would inevitably be opaque. That said, unlike VAR, the retrospective part of this means the game isn't slowed down, which is good. Still, it's so subjective. A 'keeper can jump, catch the ball, and go down holding an ankle - who's to say they haven't felt something?
We have this conversation pretty much every week, about how to stop it
I think the referee should just start booking them earlier
They do it most games and some are doing it inside the first 5 minutes, but don’t get booked until the last 3, and even though we know they won’t send him off with repeatedly doing it
if they keep doing it on a regular game basis, it won’t be long before they get banned under the totting up process
Here’s something radical. Get the referee to just stop their watch and add the correct amount of time on.
[Sam] Yes! But as mentioned in the article, it's a ploy to kill momentum as much time waste. And the stop-watch is fraught with more problems, I think.
I really enjoyed this article 😁