Quote from: cdbullyweefan on August 21, 2019, 12:17:08 PMI've never understood why that rule is so vague. How many is "persistent"? Three, five, ten, twenty?Pick an actual number and have somebody in the stand count how many each player has done, tell the referee by earpiece when a player needs booking. When I reffed - at a very local level - if a team persistently fouled, I'd warn the team captain that he would receive a yellow card if it continued.Amazingly, the captain always looked amazed when I pulled a card on him, even after making it very clear that he needed to control his team.
I've never understood why that rule is so vague. How many is "persistent"? Three, five, ten, twenty?Pick an actual number and have somebody in the stand count how many each player has done, tell the referee by earpiece when a player needs booking.
Quote from: Mister E on August 22, 2019, 08:27:58 AMQuote from: cdbullyweefan on August 21, 2019, 12:17:08 PMI've never understood why that rule is so vague. How many is "persistent"? Three, five, ten, twenty?Pick an actual number and have somebody in the stand count how many each player has done, tell the referee by earpiece when a player needs booking. When I reffed - at a very local level - if a team persistently fouled, I'd warn the team captain that he would receive a yellow card if it continued.Amazingly, the captain always looked amazed when I pulled a card on him, even after making it very clear that he needed to control his team.Don't think you'd get away with that these days.
I was in favour of VAR but it's been a disaster the way it's being implemented. It's exacerbated by ridiculous handball and offside laws, but really it's the micro-analysis of every bloody incident of note that is a farce, when it was supposed to be for clear and obvious situations were an injustice was clearly done.
I don’t understand how the ref decided to book both Trez and their player after he kicked the ball and went straight through on Trez. That could have been a nasty injury and Everton stood over our freekicks all game.Also with the new handball rules, didn’t Mina (?) block the ball with his arm/hand in an “unnatural position” when sliding to block the shot from Wes? I’m sure we’ll see plenty of them given this season.