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My biggest pet peeve as a referee is that at a certain level, referees just stop giving cards for dissent and foul and abusive language. The amount of abuse i see every week towards referees is staggering. After every call, especially in England, the player has pretty much a constant stream of 'gently caress off' and whatever else they can think of while the ref just takes it. It's gotten to the point that players think that it's ok. Back when i would do about 4 games a week, I'd end up averaging at least a red per week because of giving guys 2 yellows in the span of a minute, first for whatever foul they committed, and then immediately the second because of the hate spewing out if their mouth.
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 17:03 |
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# ? May 10, 2024 04:33 |
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As much as I'd love to see refs follow the letter of the law and give out a second yellow for dissent, it won't happen in the major European leagues. Take England for example, the ref most likely to do this would be Mike Dean. The problem is that he gets his straight red calls wrong so often that he's accused of trying to steal the spotlight. The same thing would happen with sending players off for dissent: the media circus would be in full swing and no progress would get made. Hell, the FA briefed clubs and their players at the start of the season that dissent would be handled more harshly than in the past so they need to be more careful and it's still the same song and dance now because the refs are so inconsistent.
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 17:22 |
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Now I'm imaging the next classico being 5 v 6 for like 30 minutes because players can't stop crowding the ref
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 17:29 |
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It'd actually be a race for the first team to get under the required 7 players and lose the game.
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 17:35 |
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Hashtag Banterzone posted:Now I'm imaging the next classico being 5 v 6 for like 30 minutes because players can't stop crowding the ref I would pay good money to see this
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# ? Feb 8, 2017 05:02 |
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Hashtag Banterzone posted:Now I'm imaging the next classico being 5 v 6 for like 30 minutes because players can't stop crowding the ref Keep sending players off until it's 5-a-side imo
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# ? Feb 8, 2017 09:08 |
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Bogan Krkic posted:Keep sending players off until it's 5-a-side imo Then put jumpers for goalposts on the halfway line Marvellous, isn't it
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# ? Feb 8, 2017 10:41 |
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Start each game 1v1. Players have to do a good deed to be allowed to play.
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# ? Feb 8, 2017 16:01 |
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Less that half as many corporations have signed on to sponsor the the 2018 World Cup than the 2014 edition did at this time four years ago
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 23:41 |
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https://twitter.com/guardian/status/838403891289075712
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# ? Mar 5, 2017 16:31 |
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I've always wondered what a gladiator match was like
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# ? Mar 5, 2017 21:10 |
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The Glumslinger posted:I've always wondered what a gladiator match was like Keep wondering. They might make a match, but those aren't gladiators.
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# ? Mar 5, 2017 22:04 |
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porkface posted:Keep wondering. They might make a match, but those aren't gladiators. What does this even mean
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# ? Mar 5, 2017 22:25 |
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:What does this even mean "the fact that 2 drunks can fight does not make them champions"
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# ? Mar 5, 2017 22:51 |
Lutha Mahtin posted:"the fact that 2 drunks can fight does not make them champions" Hold my beer
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# ? Mar 5, 2017 23:03 |
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:What does this even mean *closes eyes* if gladiators were real today they'd be american
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# ? Mar 9, 2017 10:04 |
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chuggo is BACK posted:*closes eyes* if gladiators were real today they'd be american There's nowhere else more likely to make the poor fight each other to the death for the entertainment of the nobility
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 06:17 |
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But guys, what if Spartacus had played football instead?
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 07:03 |
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vyelkin posted:But guys, what if Spartacus had played football instead? That's the last thing Andrew Marriner needs.
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 09:30 |
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Ninpo posted:That's the last thing Andrew Marriner needs. Lol
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 10:55 |
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The head of the african federation lost the election to remain leader after 29 years in charge
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# ? Mar 17, 2017 13:37 |
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# ? Mar 17, 2017 13:45 |
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what does this have to do with anything
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# ? Mar 18, 2017 02:42 |
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FIFA Anti-Corruption Committee Member Admits To Taking Nearly $1 Million In Bribesquote:A top Fifa official was involved in "multiple schemes to accept and pay bribes to soccer officials", United States prosecutors say.
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# ? Apr 28, 2017 18:01 |
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A FIFA official from a tiny uncompetitive country took bribes? Unheard of!
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# ? Apr 28, 2017 18:24 |
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$950,000? Dude's bribe game is strong.
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# ? Apr 28, 2017 18:57 |
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dude is (presumably) a US citizen from birth, running the football association of a US territory, a territory that it looks like is (at least kind of) subject to regular US law. that takes balls imo
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# ? Apr 28, 2017 20:02 |
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Fifa Anti-Corruption Committee strikes me as roughly as pointless as smoke detectors in hell.
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# ? May 3, 2017 23:33 |
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quote:Fifa's newly elected female representative for Asian football has been criticised for struggling to name the current women's world champions.
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# ? May 8, 2017 20:35 |
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another reminder that FIFA is poo poo: they're going to let teams based in illegal settlements play in the Israeli league, all while the Israeli government tortures Palestinian footballers
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# ? May 10, 2017 03:14 |
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nice source
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# ? May 11, 2017 04:32 |
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Lemme trust this site called electronic intifada that's extremely unbiased in all things Israel.
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# ? May 11, 2017 04:35 |
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It's also reported elsewhere so the unsupported shitposting based on the source is unnecessary.
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# ? May 11, 2017 10:31 |
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Ok so the source isn't great but can we all at least agree it contains some very good sentences regarding everyone's favorite FIFA committee member, Tokyo Sexwale?
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# ? May 11, 2017 12:10 |
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Lol, FIFA will never change and they don't give a gently caress. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/may/10/ousted-fifa-ethics-heads-investigating-hundreds-corruption-cases quote:Football’s world governing body, Fifa, has “neutralised” and “incapacitated” its corruption investigations after removing the chairmen and all but two members of its ethics committee, the two ousted chairmen said the day before the organisation’s congress in Bahrain.
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# ? May 11, 2017 13:45 |
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I hope FIFA dismisses literally everyone on the ethics committee. It will be so poetic.
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# ? May 11, 2017 18:34 |
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"FIFA Ethics Committee" is one of those great all-time oxymorons that makes me lol anytime I see something about it.
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# ? May 11, 2017 19:56 |
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Its up there with Henry Kissinger, Nobel peace prize winner for sure
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# ? May 12, 2017 05:07 |
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Speaking of peace, wondering how FIFA is handling Syria?quote:Allegations that Syria is in violation of FIFA's rules prohibiting political interference in matters related to soccer were delivered to FIFA's doorstep in 2015. FIFA has cited those rules 20 times over the past decade to suspend countries from international play. But in the case of the Syria allegations, which were contained in a 20-page document titled "War Crimes against Syrian Football Players," FIFA responded that the "tragic circumstances ... go far beyond the domain of sporting matters" and concluded that the issue was beyond its control. FIFA officials declined to be interviewed by ESPN but issued a statement saying the organization is limited in its jurisdiction and its "capacity to verify any allegations in such a complex setting." http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/19343630/how-syrian-government-brought-soccer-campaign-oppression You had to ask?
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# ? May 16, 2017 15:58 |
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Shageletic posted:Speaking of peace, wondering how FIFA is handling Syria? FIFA are in a tough situation there because Russia and Qatar are locked in a proxy war over oil pipelines. When both petrostates are paying you all the money how do you decide which one to come out in support of. Better to just let is play out in this poster's opinion
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