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***Official*** English Football Season 2020-21

OverratedSanity

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Fouls like this are basically a yellow/red card offense in others sports, its dumb that its never really been considered in football. Can end really badly.
 

Furball

Evil Scotsman
Fouls like this are basically a yellow/red card offense in others sports, its dumb that its never really been considered in football. Can end really badly.
Because you'll end up with mouth-breathers complaining that football's being turned into a non-contact sport.
 

sledger

Spanish_Vicente
PSG game suspended mid-match due to 4th official allegedly making a racist comment re: Pierre Webo.

Scenes.
 

Furball

Evil Scotsman
Bit of a ridiculous decision in the Barcelona v Juventus game given the handball actually gave Juve an advantage.
 

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
At Prenton Park tonight and the players taking the knee got some very enthusiastic applause. I tend to agree with what grecian said the other day, and Les Ferdinand too, but that being said it was a good response to what the Millwall fans did that I suspect will be replicated around the country.
 

andruid

Cricketer Of The Year
Bit of a ridiculous decision in the Barcelona v Juventus game given the handball actually gave Juve an advantage.
Onba side note, if a player concedes a blatant handball to prevent a goal, thy should just award the goal and be done with it.
 

sledger

Spanish_Vicente
Onba side note, if a player concedes a blatant handball to prevent a goal, thy should just award the goal and be done with it.
Nah. If we start introducing rules that would award goals in situations where, "but for" some nefarious action of a defending player a goal would have been scored, every game would involve about 20 goals.
 

sledger

Spanish_Vicente
I mean don't get me wrong, the awarding of a penalty and a red card for the offending player is arguably not a fair/proportionate consequence/punishment for this sort of behaviour (The Suarez handball against Ghana a particularly egregious example of this). But just awarding a goal in these circumstances would categorically not be the right way to solve this particular problem imo.
 

Uppercut

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I think the Suarez incident is the only time I've ever seen that particular form of cheating work. It's a very rare set of circumstances where a player gets the chance to do it, and even when they do, the penalty is usually scored anyway.

I'd hate a rule change that awarded a goal that hadn't been scored, but I can't really rationalise why.
 

sledger

Spanish_Vicente
I think the Suarez incident is the only time I've ever seen that particular form of cheating work. It's a very rare set of circumstances where a player gets the chance to do it, and even when they do, the penalty is usually scored anyway.

I'd hate a rule change that awarded a goal that hadn't been scored, but I can't really rationalise why.
Would be a nightmare to formulate any sort of coherent rule to this effect tbh, and this would almost certainly lead to disastrous interpretations and attempts to enforce it.

Even if this were possible though, we'd end up asking where to draw the line. If it were acceptable to award goals in situations where a goal would have been scored "but for" a defender punching the ball off the line, why not start awarding them in situations a goal would (probably) have been scored "but for" a defender hauling an attacker down as the last man?
 

Jarquis

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The concept of a penalty goal/penalty try isn’t a new one and has successfully been implemented in other sports tbf
 

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