Premier League Games 1/2/3 October '22

[burning blue soul]

I honestly think they are:

Careless but not endangering - foul
Reckless and endangering - yellow
Endangering with excessive force - red

I find them quite clear cut.

How would you word it to be less vague?

I know there has to be words used, I'm not an idiot. But you must see that the wording is constructed to allow an 'escape route' for any referee decision with a sending off.
You ask a Liverpool fan about Manes kung fu kick and its "reckless" or even "careless". What would you class it as?
Just as today, the spurs fans will in no way say the Royale challenge was 'endagering with excessive force'.
The ref will say different and the vague rules will back him up.
Different folk will interpret the rules that suit their own opinion of the game, and their own bias.
Depressingly, there isn't a solution to this situation. Opinion will always win out above the vagaries of sports rules.

 

[KingGeorge]

I’ll take Arsenal more serious if they beat Liverpool next week. They will demonstrate some staying power at that point in my view

 

[burning blue soul]

The rules can’t be 100% clear when football is a contact sport.

How you define excessive force will be subjective and will be for every different referee.

I agree.

 

[MCFC1993]

Palace v Chelsea:




Liverpool v Brighton:

 

[kaz7]

Come on you seagulls !

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I agree.

Which is why you are disagreeing with PC.

You deemed it excessive force and he didn’t. You can truthfully argue both cases without being wrong.

 

[burning blue soul]

Which is why you are disagreeing with PC.

You deemed it excessive force and he didn’t. You can truthfully argue both cases without being wrong.

Exactly. No referee is ever wrong, in the eyes of the LotG (and therefore, no fan ;)).
The differentiation between the play-on, caution, and sending off is so convoluted that any decision can be approach in any way.
I suppose it's how this messed up, schizophrenic, neurotic game can be viewed by all and not have folk come to blows... er, hang on....

 

[dadnlad]

Does BT's Felcher ever commentate on a game that is not "fascinating", "exciting to watch".

Even the rags game never escape his hype.

the only thing he's good at is red bull downhill racing
suits his over the top bullshit purfectly

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Exactly. No referee is ever wrong, in the eyes of the LotG (and therefore, no fan ;)).
The differentiation between the play-on, caution, and sending off is so convoluted that any decision can be approach in any way.
I suppose it's how this messed up, schizophrenic, neurotic game can be viewed by all and not have folk come to blows... er, hang on....

They can be wrong. They get a weekend off for making a mistake!

Your last sentence sums football and its fans up succinctly!

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Palace v Chelsea:




Liverpool v Brighton:

Don’t know why, but it annoys me how clubs put the image of one player next to these pre-game team line ups.