[QUOTE=monkey hanger;1208370]
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Originally Posted by ossy kid
A refs job today is far more difficult than it was years ago. Yesteryear ?? players were told "If someone hurts you don't let him know, get up smile and get on with it". Today lots of, not all, players are soft cheats and encouraged by their useless managers. If I was still reffing today I think I would be tearing my hair out, I see some of them have done? at some of the antics these players get up to. I hate refs but I certainly sympathize with the job they have, also some of the directions given to them by the sweet F.A.
problem is ozzy the antics do not stop at pro level they go down to youth football. there are 17 laws of the game but are not written in stone. there is the words in the opinion of the referee. everyone has a different opinion and another day there would have been no penalty,s given on tuesday night. out of the laws when did anyone last see a goalkeeper penalised for holding the ball for more than 6 seconds and a defender shielding the ball out of play yards from the ball and not in playing distance of the ball. if the laws are there use em but imagine the shouts from the bench if they are given.
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Good points made here too monkey Hanger.
Sometimes my daughter and I start counting the seconds when a keeper is holding the ball and we regularly count over 20 seconds!
For me, 'Controlling' a football is a bit like 'Writing with a pen'.
In order to write something you have to 'have the pen in your hand' and then move it across the paper. ie Control its movement!
To control a football, I think that it is similar, in that you should have to make touches on the ball in order to move it ( ie control it!)
The rule of allowing the referee to use his discretion in these 'Shepherding' situations is stupid...It is clearly
obstructing an opponents desire to find a route towards the ball in order to play it!
Make the rules to help the referee is my view, not to make the rules more difficult to apply.