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Teams slow the game down and waste time regardless. Whether that's with 11 or 10 players. Nothing you do will stop it entirely.Sounds an interesting idea, I would be concerned the team with someone in the sin bin would slow the game up and waste time.
It has been in place in grass roots for years. It does work at youth level, but I doubt very much it will work with premier league primadonna players and "everyone look at me" referee's who want to be centre of attention and yet also the players friends. Add on top of that the inconsistencies with interpretations of the laws already in the game and how managers react to them, and it's just another topic point of controversary for Talksport and Sky news to bleat on about with angry phone in fans for days on end.It starts...
It has been in place in grass roots for years. It does work at youth level, but I doubt very much it will work with premier league pre-Madonna players and "everyone look at me" referee's who want to be centre of attention and also the players friends. Add on top of that the inconsistencies with interpretations of the laws already in the game and how managers react to them, and it's just another topic point of controversary for Talksport and Sky news to bleat on about with angry phone in fans for days on end.
They need to fix whats already broken before adding more bollocks to pile they've already created
IIRC, when that happens in ice hockey (if goalies get a 2- or 5-minute penalty) the team picks someone else to be sin-binned and play with one less for the duration. With outfielders, it's the penalized player that's sin-binned.Be great fun to watch if a goalie gets sin binned!
If they had any modicum of sense that’s what they’d do, people were saying for years that football just needed to copy rugby’s approach to video technology and not try to reinvent the wheel.So essentially they're trying to copy rugby without considering how rugby matches are ref'd, the level of respect given to rugby ref's and the much higher quality of refereeing/TMO-ing?
Problem is they're trying to copy it, but it can't be copied, the games are ref'd differently.If they had any modicum of sense that’s what they’d do, people were saying for years that football just needed to copy rugby’s approach to video technology and not try to reinvent the wheel.
I think it’d be great, as long as the on field ref is left alone to make decisions on yellows and doesn’t have interference from VAR, who should only get involved if a yellow should be upgraded to a straight red.
Do that and have VAR only looking at goal line technology and we might actually start to get a bit more enjoyment back in the game.