15-02-2023, 05:31 PM
(15-02-2023, 11:17 AM)stayinupforever Wrote: If Prem refs were tougher on Prem players and actually enforced the laws of the game from the first minute then it would soon filter down the leagues. Penalise the diving,shirt pulling,swearing, surrounding of refs etc.
Do the referees get as much coaching against cheating as the players do to learn what they call the "dark Arts" ?
If every single time a player dived, he got a red and every single incident of throwing the ball away and all the rest was a yellow, and that happened every single time all season, then it would reduce.
At youth level, any team with parents abusing the referee should see games abandoned with no points to either team. It would soon stop as the parents concenred would be told to go away by the other players, their son and the maangers.