Just as insidious in my mind as diving and an area where referees seem woefully weak and inconsistent these days and players a whole lot more cynical.
I will take our experience with this as an example but it it is more general really
Wilf tricks his way past a defender or Bolassie blazes by and seconds later as the man approaches a dangerous area, whoosh, he gets taken out by a defender who has long since given up on catching up with the ball and has decided to take his chances on the refs reaction. Normal reaction is then to throw his hands up saying fouls, me , surely not or if especially concerned remind the ref it was his first in the game.
Given that some players are targetted more than others and it now appears it takes several of these to incur a caution, depending on whether the ref had his weetabix that morning it is clear that in many cases as with Liverpool yesterday that it has become a team tactic. Happily Milner came unstuck yesterday but my mind goes back to Obi Mikell and several others. The foul where Wilf was chopped a foot away from the penalty area yesterday really needed a yellow but it didn't happen. There were also a couple of body checks on Bolassie. Couldn't refs adopt a Rugby tactic of saying the next Deliberate, for that is what it is, take out will incur a yellow card whoever it is and pass that message on to team captains. They do this in Rugby if teams appear to be making a habit of deliberately infringing in certain ways
In this way we might all get a more entertaining and fairer game without these niggly efforts to stop attacks developing
Any other suggestions? Oh by the way, While I think we suffer more than some I am well aware we are not angels before people queue up with examples of where we did it to "them!"
I will take our experience with this as an example but it it is more general really
Wilf tricks his way past a defender or Bolassie blazes by and seconds later as the man approaches a dangerous area, whoosh, he gets taken out by a defender who has long since given up on catching up with the ball and has decided to take his chances on the refs reaction. Normal reaction is then to throw his hands up saying fouls, me , surely not or if especially concerned remind the ref it was his first in the game.
Given that some players are targetted more than others and it now appears it takes several of these to incur a caution, depending on whether the ref had his weetabix that morning it is clear that in many cases as with Liverpool yesterday that it has become a team tactic. Happily Milner came unstuck yesterday but my mind goes back to Obi Mikell and several others. The foul where Wilf was chopped a foot away from the penalty area yesterday really needed a yellow but it didn't happen. There were also a couple of body checks on Bolassie. Couldn't refs adopt a Rugby tactic of saying the next Deliberate, for that is what it is, take out will incur a yellow card whoever it is and pass that message on to team captains. They do this in Rugby if teams appear to be making a habit of deliberately infringing in certain ways
In this way we might all get a more entertaining and fairer game without these niggly efforts to stop attacks developing
Any other suggestions? Oh by the way, While I think we suffer more than some I am well aware we are not angels before people queue up with examples of where we did it to "them!"
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