Quote Originally Posted by Tuerto View Post
They do caution players and give penalties for offences....... You get my point..... Laws of the game need to change in terms of turning over advantage. There are plenty of fouls that take place that don't merit a booking in my view, and then we would have loads of cards, loads of stoppages, the game turns into a farce. Just reverse decisions , turn over the advantage or enhance the advantage, that way the game isn't stop start, the punishment is instant, and teams who persist will get hurt.
So do you want pens given for shirt pulling and/or grappling, sly digs etc in the box or vice versa, attackers fouling defenders being penalised? Or let everything go, despite the laws, because it means the game doesn’t stop……when, we know it does hold the game up as it is, many’s the time the ref halts proceedings and delays corners, free kicks etc to lecture players about their shenanigans. Doesn’t penalise further or brandish a card and it just carries on unpunished. So what happens at the next corner? Rinse & repeat, it needs sorting out, this is what slows the game down.