Red & Yellow Cards etc

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Davepick

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When you see the points mounting up for cards these days I think about the past.
Not too many years ago either.
The legend John 'Chopper' McPhee would never be on the pitch these days.
A very hard player and a great favourite.
However, todays interpretation of the 'Laws of the Game' is vastly different today.
Is it a good or a bad thing??
 
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Davepick said:
When you see the points mounting up for cards these days I think about the past.
Not too many years ago either.
The legend John 'Chopper' McPhee would never be on the pitch these days.
A very hard player and a great favourite.
However, todays interpretation of the 'Laws of the Game' is vastly different today.
Is it sa good or a bad thing??
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We had two bookings at Charlton for not taking a throw in quickly enough, one of which was because a substitution was about to be made. Joke decisions while bad tackles go unpunished.

There's absolutely no consistency from game to game and even within games.
 
Chopper was hard, but reasonably fair. Gary Brabin didn't exhibit too much of the latter and would have struggled to play more than 10 minutes. Not our hardest player but a pshyco. Andy Morrison probably the hardest.
 
the foul on beesley on tuesday stopping a clear goalscoring opportunity - ref gives a yellow card
a 50/50 challenge gets kouassi a booking
as someone else mentioned bookings for time wasting when a player was waiting for a substitution to be made, liner was indicating for a substitution.
all the same punishment - very different offences or not offences.

shit administrators in the game changing laws to something more complex with more room for interpretation by shit officials who have no accountability.

might be an idea to introduce cards for refs. when they make errors - non immediate game changing but significant impact, unreasonable yellow cards being given - if they make significant game changing errors ie unjustified red cards, or disallowed or illegally allowed goals they get a red card. After a red card they serve a four or five game ban and undertake re-training - a second red card within half a season they are removed from the elite reffing list until they can show they can actually do the job, 3 or 4 yellows equals a red, 6 yellows in half a season equals a double red.

the problem is there would be no refs left after about ten games based on the number of apologies that the refs body is sending out currently
 
When Oakley Booth got booked on Tuesday 10 mins after the so called offence it does sum up the
absolute disarray the rules of the game have become.
 
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