I think what's pretty clear to everyone is that the current system is just plain stupid. Referees adding an arbitrary made up amount of time to the end of each half just doesn't work at all.
Personally, I think the whole 2x30min halves where the clock is stopped whenever the ball is dead makes perfect sense. It would instantly solve all of the problems outlined in the video and would be relatively simple to introduce. As has already been discussed hundreds of times already, the ball in only in play on average for about 60 mins each match anyway, and in a lot of cases significantly less than that, as mentioned in the video. So it would really have no negative effect at all to be honest, but would render time wasting completely pointless overnight.
So far I've only heard one complaint about this proposal, and it stems from people who just don't seem to understand that that they're not losing any game time because the ball is only in play for 60 mins anyway, it's just the numbers that change not the actual playing time.
This really shouldn’t be something hard to deal with, but as ever FIFA and IFAB love to be stuck in their ways. How long did it take them to introduce goal line tech, and now video refs?
This is something that could be fixed instantly.
Same goes for harassing the ref. I've said for years just bring in the rugby style rules where only the captain talks to the ref unless spoken to and anyone answering back etc. gets a yellow. You'd have loads of yellows in the first weekend it was introduced, but then everyone would get the message that they were serious and all this arguing back/surrounding the ref/appealing for offsides/appealing for VAR etc. would be cut out overnight. But will they do it? Will they fuck. They don't even enforce the current rules for fuck sake.
I do wonder if they are just happy to carry on as it is, that it’s by design rather than anything else. I think the powers that be probably see all this as part of the game, and don’t want to change it.
I'm not so sure, because they keep bringing out new "directives" or whatever you want to call it but then they just never actually enforce them. Think about the "respect campaign" for christs sake. They effectively just spent a load of money on some posters, but because they never enforced the rules in practice it made zero difference. Also we're constantly being told there's a shortage of refs in the game because nobody wants to do the job any more because of all the abuse they get.
Like I say, to me the problam is the the FA/PL/PGMOL never back up the refs so they just "announce" a new policy but that's the end of it and even the refs who do try and enforce the rules get hung out to dry. I'm thinking back to the season after Leicester won the title. Before the season started all the teams were explicitly told that they'd be cracking down on shoving/shirt pulling etc. in the box during corners and free kicks. There was a game involving Stoke I think right near the beginning of the season where they were up to their usual tricks and the ref was having none of it. I think he gave 2 penalties against them and a load of yellow cards because they kept doing it regardless of how many times he warned them. Now if the FA etc. had backed him up on that, and other refs had been equally strict, they would've fixed the problem overnight and the following weekend the level of shananigans in the box would be massively reduced, but yet again, because of all the "proper football men" on the tele moaning about how he can give so many cards, the powers that be hung the ref out to dry and none of the other refs dared to enforce the new rules then so they just ignored it and reffed it like they had done in the past.
That's the trouble, whether it's time-wasting, diving, surrounding the ref etc. regardless of what it is that they want to change, if they're never going to go further than printing some posters but then not enforcing anything in practice, then they may as well not bother in the first place.
I'm not so sure that the problem would be solved overnight, because most of these players aren't the sharpest tools in the shed. They've been getting away with these things for several years, so these habits are more or less second nature to them by now, but they'd get the message at some point, even if it takes a few weeks and a few yellows (or reds, if they keep doing the same things). But, as we've seen, those rare refs who do their jobs properly are hung out to dry, so they stop doing their jobs properly and nothing changes.I'm not so sure, because they keep bringing out new "directives" or whatever you want to call it but then they just never actually enforce them. Think about the "respect campaign" for christs sake. They effectively just spent a load of money on some posters, but because they never enforced the rules in practice it made zero difference. Also we're constantly being told there's a shortage of refs in the game because nobody wants to do the job any more because of all the abuse they get.
Like I say, to me the problam is the the FA/PL/PGMOL never back up the refs so they just "announce" a new policy but that's the end of it and even the refs who do try and enforce the rules get hung out to dry. I'm thinking back to the season after Leicester won the title. Before the season started all the teams were explicitly told that they'd be cracking down on shoving/shirt pulling etc. in the box during corners and free kicks. There was a game involving Stoke I think right near the beginning of the season where they were up to their usual tricks and the ref was having none of it. I think he gave 2 penalties against them and a load of yellow cards because they kept doing it regardless of how many times he warned them. Now if the FA etc. had backed him up on that, and other refs had been equally strict, they would've fixed the problem overnight and the following weekend the level of shenanigans in the box would be massively reduced, but yet again, because of all the "proper football men" on the tele moaning about how he can give so many cards, the powers that be hung the ref out to dry and none of the other refs dared to enforce the new rules then so they just ignored it and reffed it like they had done in the past.
That's the trouble, whether it's time-wasting, diving, surrounding the ref etc. regardless of what it is that they want to change, if they're never going to go further than printing some posters but then not enforcing anything in practice, then they may as well not bother in the first place.
I'm not so sure that the problem would be solved overnight, because most of these players aren't the sharpest tools in the shed. They've been getting away with these things for several years, so these habits are more or less second nature to them by now, but they'd get the message at some point, even if it takes a few weeks and a few yellows (or reds, if they keep doing the same things). But, as we've seen, those rare refs who do their jobs properly are hung out to dry, so they stop doing their jobs properly and nothing changes.
Something absolutely has to happen. Time wasting behaviour like that of Ben Foster should also be looked at after games. When you start wasting time after 10 minutes it should be punishable...
Same goes for harassing the ref. I've said for years just bring in the rugby style rules where only the captain talks to the ref unless spoken to and anyone answering back etc. gets a yellow. You'd have loads of yellows in the first weekend it was introduced, but then everyone would get the message that they were serious and all this arguing back/surrounding the ref/appealing for offsides/appealing for VAR etc. would be cut out overnight. But will they do it? Will they fuck. They don't even enforce the current rules for fuck sake.