Suggestion: Booking for Overreacting to Being Fouled

[William Henry Foulkes]

Again with the Baxter incident.

Consensus seems to be that it was a red *but* what's really provoking is when their player rolls around screaming.

For me one change that would dramatically improve the game would be if you could book or send off a player for fouling an opponent but then *also* book the player who was fouled for overreacting.

I'd've liked to have seen that yesterday, and on countless other occasions.

Can't see it catching on but I think it would change things for the better by significantly reducing the amount of play-acting, which is a shameful blight on the game.

 

[jt64]

refs can do this already, they just choose not to

 

[HillmortonBlade]

refs can do this already, they just choose not to

Can't think of a time I have seen a referee act upon a player over-reacting to a foul committed upon them. Difficult for them I guess.

 

[AnonymousBlade1995]

Reaction to higdon tackle at Chesterfield comes to mind when their player turned into a fish traped in a net.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

refs can do this already, they just choose not to

Can't think of a time I have seen a referee act upon a player over-reacting to a foul committed upon them. Difficult for them I guess.

Very difficult for the ref to book them for rolling around feigning injury.
Perhaps the answer would be a mandatory five minutes off the pitch and the need for a doctor to pass them as fit before they can return, that would stop it.

 

[William Henry Foulkes]

Very difficult for the ref to book them for rolling around feigning injury.
Perhaps the answer would be a mandatory five minutes off the pitch and the need for a doctor to pass them as fit before they can return, that would stop it.

It's difficult or even impossible at the moment but I think that's bc there is a lack of leadership.

If it was going to happen there would have to be a well publicised pre-season directive which, I think, is how new interpretations of the Laws are generally introduced.

There is a direct precedent: the administrators did as much with "simulation", and we now see players booked for diving when there was no contact, to me the next step is to book them for overreacting when there was contact.

If the administrators decided that rolling around feigning injury was "unsporting behaviour" (or whatever the exact wording in the existing Law is) then referees would be empowered to book players for it.

I've been banging on about this for years (can you tell?) but I'm convinced that the day a referee books one player for a foul and the other for overreacting the game will improve significantly.

Yesterday it would have been reasonable for Baxter to be sent off and for their player, given the way he behaved, to be booked. I'd like to see this happen.

Feigning injury is a real blight on the game, and I think this is a reasonable step which would go a long way to cleaning it up.

 

[itsinyerblood]

If this has been commented upon already apologies, but.....what if football took a leaf out of rugby's handbook and had the technology to turn to where there was a dispute?It would take seconds, minutes at most, and that way, a fourth/fifth official could look at an incident in detail, converse with the referee, and then a decision based on calm appraisal could be reached?

 

[William Henry Foulkes]

I think use of technology is a different thread. FWIW I'm against it as I believe (only half-kidding) it leads to the collapse of civilization. I've pointed this out to Folkes Jr.

 

[HillmortonBlade]

I think use of technology is a different thread. FWIW I'm against it as I believe (only half-kidding) it leads to the collapse of civilization. I've pointed this out to Folkes Jr.

Tend to agree... and anyone who says it works in rugger I would argue that of course it does, as rugger already has a great deal of standing about waiting for something to happen.

 

[itsinyerblood]

I think use of technology is a different thread. FWIW I'm against it as I believe (only half-kidding) it leads to the collapse of civilization. I've pointed this out to Folkes Jr.

I'll see if I can find the thread described, thanks. I agree a balance needs to be struck between maintaining the role of a referee and changing the game as we know it. If one thing is guaranteed to introduce a NIMBY attitude it's difference, but I'm on the side of trying to give either side a chance to benefit from a decision, not the opposite where a decision of huge importance is decided in a second. Think about the uproar over how long it took to decide about introducing goal-line technology?

In the meantime, it must be nice, not to say unusual, to have a neighbour whose name is similar to your own.

 

[davidpinder]

Although it was a bad foul, the one on matic yesterday shows that there was nothing wrong with him because of the way he got up and had a go at the player who fouled him, yet he was rolling around on the floor moments before. That foul however was a red all day long in my eyes and the player went unpunished and matic was sent off for pushing him to the ground.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

It's difficult or even impossible at the moment but I think that's bc there is a lack of leadership.

If it was going to happen there would have to be a well publicised pre-season directive which, I think, is how new interpretations of the Laws are generally introduced.

There is a direct precedent: the administrators did as much with "simulation", and we now see players booked for diving when there was no contact, to me the next step is to book them for overreacting when there was contact.

If the administrators decided that rolling around feigning injury was "unsporting behaviour" (or whatever the exact wording in the existing Law is) then referees would be empowered to book players for it.

I've been banging on about this for years (can you tell?) but I'm convinced that the day a referee books one player for a foul and the other for overreacting the game will improve significantly.

Yesterday it would have been reasonable for Baxter to be sent off and for their player, given the way he behaved, to be booked. I'd like to see this happen.

Feigning injury is a real blight on the game, and I think this is a reasonable step which would go a long way to cleaning it up.

Easy example; Michael Brown getting booked for feigning injury against WBA at The Lane would in the heat of battle not

have surprised many in the ground .

In fact he was out injured for a few game's.