If they want to protect players, introduce technology, and a clearer guideline as to what is allowed and what isn't.
There should also be a larger scale of punishment regarding offenses in the game.
Straight reds are ludicrous.
You can hack a guys leg with a horror challenge, or foul a guy and be sent off for being the last man, and both carry the same penalty.
If Chelsea want to win the league, put their worst 2 players on that they picked up for 50p from outer Monglia or Antartica, and send them on with the sole intention of breaking Rooneys leg and Fabregas' leg. The player gets banned for 3 matches, or worse, but the competition is out of the way. Heck, they could pop a Magnum out of their shorts and wack the whole Liverpool side, or better still, a gatling gun and a few grenades and wack their fans too.
You can be yellow carded for fouling a guy, and yellow carded for kicking the ball away. Yellow carded for time wasting, diving, not hearing the whistle, or as the result of someone elses play acting. That yellow card could mean you miss the final because of acumulation, or added to another means you miss the next game. It's far too open for corruption.
Why can't they have a black card, or a white card too? Or a pink one if you touch a guys leg in the wall?
A ref can send you off for insulting him also, despite him insulting the intelligence of 40,000 fans and millions of viewers.
Refs are there to apply the law. They're not there to send players off for back chat. That should be a case for a committee after the event once the ref hands his report in, and there should be an escalating band of punishment.
Bad fouls should be dealt with by the police as an assault if deemed deliberate, and if undeliberate, they should be seen as an accident, and not carry a sending off.
All it takes is to stop the game briefly, and view it on screen.
Technology is the only way forward, and until the governing bodies embrace it, they should be held liable when tv cameras prove fault.
Only then can refs and players be judged correctly, and refs should be sent off and replaced pending punishment just the same as players.
There is far too much at stake for human error, or deliberate error to get in the way. Managers should be able to vote against referees, and it should be clubs who make decisions regarding technology, and not governing bodies, as it seems to me sometimes that these governing bodies are becoming more important than the sport itself. It's the clubs who generate the money, along with the sponsors and tv companies, not the governing bodies. Most of all, it's the fans who pay for everything either directly or indirectly. It's time they respected the fans and clubs opinions more.
How is it fair for English teams to be judged differently by European refs? There's no consistency.
The game has moved on, the money invested in the game has moved on, but the governing bodies are prehistoric.
Why only 2 cards?
Why only 3 subs?
Why not play the damn game on a triangle pitch with 3 goals and 3 teams as that is more sensible than ignoring technology.
