Isnt this the most stupid rule in football ?

[djbaldken]

Here's a what if: what if a team have five players on a booking and they are say three nil down. On sixty minutes that team scores and the five booked players remove their shirts to celebrate. They all get a second yellow and are sent off. Match has to be abandoned due to insufficient players. Leaving the league a difficult decision. Replay or result stands.

 

[CrookesBlade]

Here's a what if: what if a team have five players on a booking and they are say three nil down. On sixty minutes that team scores and the five booked players remove their shirts to celebrate. They all get a second yellow and are sent off. Match has to be abandoned due to insufficient players. Leaving the league a difficult decision. Replay or result stands.

It would be the fault of the players just the same as if they'd got a mass second yellow/straight red via another offence (violent conduct etc).

Whilst the pros and cons of the rule are up for debate everybody knows what it is. Its not done accidentally and there is no grey area about what constitutes removing your shirt.

 

[itsinyerblood]

It's a little known rule that you get a straight red for waving yer cock about in celibration.

Surely this only applies if your cock is longer than your little finger and it's visible?

 

[BushBlade]

Here's a what if: what if a team have five players on a booking and they are say three nil down. On sixty minutes that team scores and the five booked players remove their shirts to celebrate. They all get a second yellow and are sent off. Match has to be abandoned due to insufficient players. Leaving the league a difficult decision. Replay or result stands.

Results stands and club is fined for failure to control its players.

 

[BushBlade]

Well, kind of - but the writer's dismissal of the 'sponsorship' theory is a bit naive.

"How much exposure do they really want?" er....as much as possible - that's why they pay so much to put their names on the shirts.

"Since when did the sponsors run the game of football?" Well, I hate to break it to you, but...

From memory it was a combination of sponsors moaning that their logo wasn't visable, messages on T shirts that could be considered 'political' or divisive and 'pirate sponsorship' where a player lifted his shirt to show a message on a T shirt sponsored by a company that wasn't an official sponsor.

FIFA weren't prepared to set up committees to review what was and wasn't political or guerrilla marketing so just said 'fuck it, ban the lot'.

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

It's only one of the ridiculous rules in place at the moment. The other main one being when a player who wins a free kick after being fouled, has to go off the pitch once treatment has finished on the field.

How can it be right that a player is fouled and then the team are penalised by playing with 10 men until the ref allows them back on the field???

Mind boggling.......

They should both go off

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Ref wasnt quite sure what to do. Dont think he got booked. Was hilarious. Obviously he wasnt too keen on the temperature that day!!

I'm pretty sure I saw the yellow card being waved.

Deserved it an' all, chucking his Blades shirt on the floor! Tsk Tsk

 

[RammyBlade]

It's a little known rule that you get a straight red for waving yer cock about in celibration.

I thought it was only if you waved it more than 3 times !

 

[RammyBlade]

At one point everyone seemed to start taking their shirt off when they scored, and started having more and more elaborate messages on their tops, then you had players with sponsor messages on their undershirts. Things like Ian Wright's Just Done It Nike t-shirt when he broke Arsenal's scoring record made sense, but was a blatant bit of advertising, some players started wearing multiple undershirts with different messages if they scored more than once, if they took off too many layers they had to sort all the shirts out again, or some threw their shirts into the crowd and had to go back to the bench to get a new one and it started causing ridiculous delays.

In general I don't think it should be a booking, but people taking ages to get re-dressed, putting political massages or adverts under their shirts is what ruined it for most people with a simple RIP or dedication to someone in their family underneath.

A better solution would be to fine any player doing it around a weeks wages and then the bloated Premier league guys would be paying real money of up to £200k + per offence - that might make them think twice ?

 

[RammyBlade]

Whether the rule is stupid or not, I have to say, in all my years of playing football (amateur of course), rugby, squash, tennis, various other sports, all the goals I've scored, points I've won, matches I've won, I have never once felt the need to celebrate by getting undressed.

Youre not gay then ?

 

[Blade56]

I thought it was only if you waved it more than 3 times !

Wave it more than three times and it's a totally different offence

Why don't the women whip off their tops when they score and then jump up and down with a slight wiggle from left to right then right to left on alternate jumps then spin round on the spot? Why?

 

[blade too long]

its a stupid rule
how you can get a booking for that then on sunday we see both manchester clubs get a penalty through blatant cheating , which as usual they will get off scot free
celebrating a goal , is what footballs about , we punish it
but condone cheating by doing nothing

 

[sitwell]

Chesterfields centre half tried as hard as he could to get Hansons shirt off ,must have thought he would get a booking

 

[Hamburg Blade]

Youre not gay then ?

Do gay people celebrate by taking their clothes off? Are you saying all the footballers who take their shirts off after scoring are gay? I'm confused.

 

[Hamburg Blade]

its a stupid rule
how you can get a booking for that then on sunday we see both manchester clubs get a penalty through blatant cheating , which as usual they will get off scot free
celebrating a goal , is what footballs about , we punish it
but condone cheating by doing nothing

I agree with the sentiment of what you're saying, but just to say no one is punishing players for celebrating goals.