RE: [LU] Rooney & Ronaldo

[Mark Humphries]

You wont be saying that when a Preston player elbows Killa off the ball and doesn’t get seen by the ref, and we end up playing for 10 men for 10 mins because of it!   The flaw with this argument is that if a player has been genuinely fouled then why should his team be penalised for it?   A simple yellow card whenever the referee deems someone as ‘simulating’ an injury or the seriousness of that injury should be enough to stop a lot of feigning.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 July 2006 15:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; leedslist@list.zetnet.co.uk Subject: Re: [LU] Rooney & Ronaldo     Any time a stretcher enters the field of play then it's ten minutes before the player can re-enter. After all any real injury that would require a stretcher would likely take that long to administer aid. A substitution for the player could obviously occur immediately. That would actually work. No need for yellow cards. Team-mates would soon encourage their "injured" comrades to get up if it meant they'd have to cover for them for the next 10 minutes.   I'd also forbid any player except the captain from talking to the referee. Any attempt to pressurise the ref (as Ronaldo did) would be an instant yellow.   And the "card gesture" would also merit an immediate yellow.   Game needs cleaning up from this tiresome, petulant shite.   Mark