This community is being retired in favor of [email protected].
This could work for dissent, but even then I'm not keen. A 10 minute spell on the sidelines is enough to ruin a game for something we're trying to define as less serious than a red card.
Imagine - a high stakes, UCL Semi Final, 88 minutes and it's level, end to end. A player loses it for a second under immense pressure, drops an f-bomb at the 4th official and is sin-binned. Their teammates stop playing and sit deep waiting for extra time. Game ruined, for what benefit?
It will ruin a lot of games like in rugby with the inconsistencies. On r/rugbyunion every post match thread is like 90% comments about the ref.
The ref is NOT the protagonist of the game.
Having only captains talk to refs is long overdue.
Just stop fucking with the game.
I don't understand this obsession with doing "things" without setting out what they're supposed to address and without setting out how they're measure if they're successful. Just slow the fuck down.
So can they give sin bin to a player without a yellow?
How many players from same team can get sin bin at a time or within that 10min period?
game is well and truly GONE