All people in power ultimately try to impose their oversized ego onto the field. Football was never supposed to be a gentleman's game, it is a common man's game Tackle et al. And how does this person determine the intentional tackle? We are fed up of seeing the referrees screw the game by their own interpretation of dangerous play. The referees are anyway political and their decisions cannot be challenged. The referees decision against African countries is myuch tougher than against a Europen country say Germany.
It is a good initiative Sepp makes, but the wordings of the ban and the implementation will be tricky. There should also be a ruling to protect defenders from diving tactics of some mischievious footballers. How about banning diving tackles to be more precise?
RE:The ban might prove tricky
by Anindya Dasgupta on Mar 07, 2008 11:56 AM
Secondly, it is going to be almost impossible to implement this fairly. We will unnecessarily see players from smaller teams sacrificed while say a Rooney will be let go scot free. After all, we are all used to referees having different sets of rules when judging a Man Utd/Chelsea/Arsenal/ Real Madrid etc player. So this initiative is not practical
RE:The ban might prove tricky
by Gautam Sinha on Mar 07, 2008 12:40 PM
It is a weapon to use selectivley against teams that do not have strong lobbies in FIFA.
