Viewpoint on Modern Refereeing (Sports in General)

[hallamblue]

I think the bigger problem is the blatant cheating that goes on almost constantly. You know it’s not your throw in, but you try and claim it anyway. You give away a free kick, then kick the ball a couple of yards away to stop a quick free kick, standing right over a free kick instead of retreating 10 yards, pretending to be injured to waste time etc etc etc.

All teams do these things, and they are all cheating. The players need to take the responsibility to play fair, then maybe the ref will have a much easier time.

They need to adopt Rugby rules. You stop a quick free kick, the free kick moves 10 yards closer to your goal. If that's under 28 yards out, you concede a penalty. Anyone who isn't the captain talks to the ref, yellow card. As said above, footballers cheat more than any other sportsmen so it must be very difficult to referee them.

 

[Yank]

I like that idea a lot and could see it working well and fairly.
However id have the absolute ceiling at 10k a week, which is an astoundingly generous amount for playing a hobby, and more than anybody needs.

The European courts would probably be used to stop you though, impinging earnings etc. Bunch of fools.

Yea what a bunch of fools.. You're offered a contract, you accept it, and then the government steps in and says no. That's ridiculous.

You and that dude are an absolute jealous bunch.

You think it'd be fair for a Ronaldo to be capped at 10k a week while the owners far exceed that in his jersey sales every week?

 

[chrismpw]

Yea what a bunch of fools.. You're offered a contract, you accept it, and then the government steps in and says no. That's ridiculous.

You and that dude are an absolute jealous bunch.

You think it'd be fair for a Ronaldo to be capped at 10k a week while the owners far exceed that in his jersey sales every week?

1. I am not a dude, I am an Englishman. We have our own terms of endearment thanks (like pillock, blert etc).

2. I am not jealous.

3. With the rapid decline of Christianity in the west there is a moral vacuum. While I am in no way religious, I will happily go along with mainstream christian morality. It is utterly wrong and abhorrent to have such an enormous difference in wealth as exists between footballers and the average person in the western world, let alone between a footballer and the average global person.

So yes, I would welcome a government that could take a moral stance for once and change their contracts. They do it when it suits them. After 30 years of a career having agreed a pension contract, our reprehensible government unilaterally changed it, expecting greater contributions, more years work and less payout.

 

[Bluebonic]

1. I am not a dude, I am an Englishman. We have our own terms of endearment thanks (like pillock, blert etc).

2. I am not jealous.

3. With the rapid decline of Christianity in the west there is a moral vacuum. While I am in no way religious, I will happily go along with mainstream christian morality. It is utterly wrong and abhorrent to have such an enormous difference in wealth as exists between footballers and the average person in the western world, let alone between a footballer and the average global person.

So yes, I would welcome a government that could take a moral stance for once and change their contracts. They do it when it suits them. After 30 years of a career having agreed a pension contract, our reprehensible government unilaterally changed it, expecting greater contributions, more years work and less payout.

Testify brother! Too many are happy to make excuses for the morally bankrupt spumes that infest football. They are lying, cheating, effete helmets the majority of them!