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Today's Football 2018-19 Season

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Sarnia Kevin said:
This. In Rugby League the game doesn't stop because of substitutions, they just happen (OK it's a different game, different rules - but at least things don't grind to a halt for a minor event). If players try to intimidate the ref they get sent off, no argument. Time wasting is kept to a minimum by strict regulation. A Rugby League game is 2 halves of 40 minutes with a 10 minute break, but usually lasts about 2 hours. Do the sums. The football authorities need to tighten up their rules the right way, and referees need to enforce the rules the right way i.e. by booking players for dissent more (show them you mean business). And they need to be more consistent in their decision making - the sort of "book a player for a foul, but not book a player for an equally bad foul 5 minutes later because you'd booked him earlier in the game for looking at you funny". And the players need to start acting like the sportsmen they pretend to be instead of the prima donna actresses they come across as.
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I've said it for years, what is wrong with refs? They should have all the power. If you have someone like Roy Keane screaming in your face, why don't you send him off? They get a lot of abuse, but they don't half bring it on themselves. Players always surround them on decisions, which shouldn't be allowed. Just bloody book them when they don't go away and send them off if they don't.

Going back to rugby, it's just the captain and they show so much respect to the ref. Warburton for Wales was class at this, I must say. And it builds a good rapports and makes the game played in a good manner. I never see a game of footy that I think "that was played in good spirit".
 



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