Why Can't I Run FIFA?
There are so many rules in football that you wish didn't exist aren't there? Just little things usually that do your head in, they usually annoy you far more when you've just lost of course. Football can never be perfect cos then there would be nothing to argue or moan about but here are seven rules I'd have changed (Yes I know 7 is an odd number to choose but off the top of my head I couldn’t think of 10!):
1. "Shephearding" the ball out. No not shephearding, obstruction you mean. Anywhere else apart from the little channels near your own goal and it would be a foul, but no, it's an excuse for big fat defenders to shove people out of the way for a goal kick.
2. Harsher punishments for giving the ref so much crap his ears go blue. Wayne Rooney would only play 15 minutes a week before being shown red but it’s worth it. In fact, that’s the main reason I would enforce such law, the lad needs to learn some respect! God I sound like I’m middle-aged not 19…
3. No yellow cards for goal celebrations. In fact, yellow cards for boring celebrations, yes Big Al I’m looking at you. What’s wrong with taking off your shirt, doing a dozen somersaults or going to the crowd when the ball is in the net?
4. Players conceding free kicks, and then walking off with the ball. So irritating, and to make matters worse, the ref usually has a go at the other team for not taking it back again! If I was Mr FIFA I’d say if the other team runs away with the ball then you can take it where they drop it if it helps you.
5. The second yellow card always has to be for a worse foul than the first. If someone has already been booked, you’ll see the ref go up to them, reach into his pocket and think “Oh sh*t I’ve already booked him I can’t give him another,” and usually lets them off! If it’s bad enough for a first card, it’s bad enough for a second.
6. Fouls on goalkeepers. Simply translated as “An opposition player jumped for the ball within 3 yards of David James/any other bobbins keeper who drops it, so they must have been fouled.” Forwards are entitled to jump for the ball so let them, it’s a man’s game as they say.
7. Well I’ve got to say something about this annoying new interpretation of offside. It seems to me it just gives linesmen the opportunity to give even later decisions as they only raise the flag when someone touches the ball or interferes some other way. Is there no better way of doing offside? I actually can’t think myself on this one but surely there is!
1. "Shephearding" the ball out. No not shephearding, obstruction you mean. Anywhere else apart from the little channels near your own goal and it would be a foul, but no, it's an excuse for big fat defenders to shove people out of the way for a goal kick.
2. Harsher punishments for giving the ref so much crap his ears go blue. Wayne Rooney would only play 15 minutes a week before being shown red but it’s worth it. In fact, that’s the main reason I would enforce such law, the lad needs to learn some respect! God I sound like I’m middle-aged not 19…
3. No yellow cards for goal celebrations. In fact, yellow cards for boring celebrations, yes Big Al I’m looking at you. What’s wrong with taking off your shirt, doing a dozen somersaults or going to the crowd when the ball is in the net?
4. Players conceding free kicks, and then walking off with the ball. So irritating, and to make matters worse, the ref usually has a go at the other team for not taking it back again! If I was Mr FIFA I’d say if the other team runs away with the ball then you can take it where they drop it if it helps you.
5. The second yellow card always has to be for a worse foul than the first. If someone has already been booked, you’ll see the ref go up to them, reach into his pocket and think “Oh sh*t I’ve already booked him I can’t give him another,” and usually lets them off! If it’s bad enough for a first card, it’s bad enough for a second.
6. Fouls on goalkeepers. Simply translated as “An opposition player jumped for the ball within 3 yards of David James/any other bobbins keeper who drops it, so they must have been fouled.” Forwards are entitled to jump for the ball so let them, it’s a man’s game as they say.
7. Well I’ve got to say something about this annoying new interpretation of offside. It seems to me it just gives linesmen the opportunity to give even later decisions as they only raise the flag when someone touches the ball or interferes some other way. Is there no better way of doing offside? I actually can’t think myself on this one but surely there is!
posted by Andy at 7:30 PM
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