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Tuesday 25 March 2008

Why doesn't football have a ten metre rule!

"I have made it clear referees should be a no-go area," said English players' union (PFA) chief executive Gordon Taylor.

Liverpool's Javier Mascherano, Central Coast Mariners Danny Vukovic have both grabbed headlines for their recent send-offs from the pitch.

Why doesn't FIFA enforce two simple rules.

1. Only the Captain can question a decision.(Sounds like Rugby.)

2.Only a Captain can protest a decision. Protesting and/or swearing at an official and you move the free-kick ten metres forward.

Sounds like Rugby but Union guys tend to be a lot less abusive to referees in televised games and let's face it their rules leave an amazing amount to interpretation never mind understanding!

So simple, but when the Nearpost forms Government watch the football culture change across the World.

Why wouldn't we do it? Can't think of any reason why we wouldn't do it, can you?


English players' union (PFA) chief executive Gordon Taylor has called for the introduction of an exclusion zone around referees following recent incidents of player dissent.

"I have made it clear referees should be a no-go area," Taylor told BBC radio after Liverpool's Javier Mascherano was sent off on Sunday for harrowing referee Steve Bennett over his decisions.

"It is time managers and players did accept a responsibility ...It is the bad points that get highlighted and the game has to be very much aware and do all it can to eradicate it."

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