The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

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Scisca said:

@1 - I know, this has to be changed, cause it's just more against fair play than the ball kicking by the reserve player.

@2 - But that's not the football rules. They don't apply to fans.

@3 - I believe the ball kicking is not against the rules, it's just "considered not fair play" and was punished even though it wasn't against any rules. I seriously doubt you'll find a rule that doesn't allow to kick a ball that's not in play.

@4 - Oh no, it's so good :) I hope we do go there. We have good enough players, but they just can't form a team. The team is worth less than the sum of the players, we have to change it. I would love to see us paying the Russians back for all the riots, destruction their fans caused in Poland during Euro and for all the shit their diplomats and ambasady caused as well. But sadly I know that it won't happen, we just aren't such assholes as they are.

http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/afdeveloping/refereeing/law_12_fouls_misconduct_en_47379.pdf

Page 58 dash 3.

And if you read the rules carefully you will see that generally "unfair play"(unsporting behavior) IS against the rules and yellow or even red worthy. For example page 42.

@1

This rule is in place because football is full of assholes. It's designed to deter people from feigning injuries to delay the game. That way a player will think twice before leaving the field because it's his team that will suffer from it. I know it's not ideal and that is more than often hurting an innocent team but without this rule in play we would see a lot more feigning in the games which would be a drag on a game that is already prone to be slow an uneventful.