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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2015 15:50:45 GMT
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Post by michelle1863 on Sept 5, 2015 21:05:38 GMT
Please god no!!!!
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Post by knowles on Sept 7, 2015 2:55:26 GMT
I'd like to know what the benefit of it is.
Does the top green card earner receive something at the end of the season? A box of chocolates?
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Post by JoeinOz on Sept 7, 2015 5:04:35 GMT
I'd like to know what the benefit of it is. Does the top green card earner receive something at the end of the season? A box of chocolates? Free cinema tickets?
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Post by slicko on Sept 7, 2015 6:04:55 GMT
This game needs to seriously "man up"
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Post by rawli on Sept 7, 2015 6:48:17 GMT
I'd like to know what the benefit of it is. Does the top green card earner receive something at the end of the season? A box of chocolates? They get to move to America.
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Post by jaybee on Sept 7, 2015 8:44:48 GMT
I know some on here don't like Rod Liddle, but I thought this was good .... www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/sport/article1603029.eceI don’t want my team being nice to the opposition under any circumstancesA BRAVE new start for football, then. As of this weekend, referees in Italy’s second division, Serie B, will be carrying three different coloured cards in their pockets. The usual red and yellow, for punishing transgressions, plus a green card, for letting the players know when they’ve been really, really nice. Nope, not kidding. The idea is to restore the good name of football by rewarding “conspicuous acts of sportsmanship” and other sundry “acts of virtue”. It would also “highlight those who help to make the game a game and not a battle of primal instincts”. Well, lordy. And how neat and fitting that this scheme should kick off in a country which has always been noted for its honesty, freedom from corruption and the very conspicuous utter decency of its players. What might qualify as a conspicuous act of sportsmanship or virtue? Well, according to the authorities, kicking the ball out of play when an opponent has had his spine snapped in half by some two-footed lunge from your captain. And also, curiously, taking a dive in the penalty area and then explaining remorsefully to the referee that, with respect, you would prefer that a penalty not be awarded. Hmm. This seems to me akin to punching someone in the mouth and then offering them a bandage, but we’ll let that pass. Anyway, when the ref notices that someone has done something terribly nice, he will flourish the green card — no doubt to appreciative and respectful applause from around the stadium. There is some mystery as to what good this will do the player in question. No reward is given during the game itself. Nor will a team be allowed to bring an extra player on to the pitch if they get two green cards, in a sort of reversal of the two yellows rule. The Italians have suggested the league will keep a tally of who has got the most green cards and some sort of reward will be offered at the end of the season. No, I don’t know what. Maybe a set of steak knives or one of those decorated china plates that used to be advertised in Sunday newspaper colour supplements. Or perhaps the Italians will come to the conclusion that simply being given a green card is reward in itself. I suppose it would be if you were Mexican. I can’t see the fans going for this, to be honest. I suspect your average supporter would treat the whole thing with a degree of irony and disdain. But more than that, rewarding acts of sportsmanship seems to me to be defeating the point — you know, virtue is its own reward and so on. And I have the horrible suspicion players might start feigning acts of sportsmanship in order to con the ref into giving them a green card. I remember Norman Burtenshaw, who reffed in the 1970s, talking darkly about this sort of thing and citing an example of Leeds United’s Allan Clarke. With the game nearing the end and Leeds hanging on, Burtenshaw blew up for an infringement against Don Revie’s monstrous white army. Clarke picked up the ball and walked fully 50 yards to hand it, politely, to an opponent, drawing respectful applause from the opposition supporters for “sportsmanship”. “He saved his team another thirty seconds,” Burtenshaw growled, “when he could have just kicked the ball to the oppo instead”. My problem is that I quite like football to be a battle of primal instincts. And I don’t want my team’s players being nice to the opposition under any circumstances. So I have an alternative suggestion, which I think would meet with greater approval from the terraces. How about a black card awarded to a player who has not actually transgressed any law of the game, but has simply behaved like an utter idiot? By which I mean that after scoring a goal he has indulged in some hugely irritating celebration, including — but not confined to — cupping his hand to his ear as he runs towards the corner flag, or pointing at his club’s badge (when two weeks previously he had been demanding a transfer and told the press his side “lacked ambition”). Also, looking in appalled disbelief at the referee when he has awarded a free kick for a crime the player knows damn well he committed. It might be expanded to include behaviour that takes place off the pitch, too, or at least on the way to the ground. Turning up for training in a tartan Lamborghini, for example, or taking out an injunction to stop the rest of us finding out about an act of infidelity. And of course there would be some players who would receive the black card simply for appearing on the pitch — Craig Bellamy would be shown it in the tunnel before the game has even begun, just for being Craig Bellamy. The black card — I think it’s a runner. Someone tell the Italians. © Times Newspapers Ltd 2015 Registered office 1 London Bridge Street, SE1 9GF. Registered in England No 894646
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Post by tijuanabrass on Sept 7, 2015 8:55:01 GMT
At my kids' school they get little blue awards for doing good things - like being attentive and respectful . Whenever they get 5 they get to trade them in for a cream award. And then 5 of them become a big certificate and so on till they start getting medals. Maybe it could work the same way in Football with presentations before each match . Maybe we could also replace the ball boys with "ball monitors" made up of the unused subs.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2015 10:13:24 GMT
The only other card should be a P45 for some players with an on the spot "sacked card" being wielded by a fans representative.
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