The tactical timeout from Donnarumma

Like clockwork. Arsenal do it for years, all fine. City do it, media frenzy and lobbying for a rule change.

Still not considering the possibility the he actually had a knock apparently.

BBC News - Plan to combat tactical timeouts to be discussed - BBC Sport
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Plan to combat tactical timeouts to be discussed

A move to force teams to temporarily remove an outfield player if a goalkeeper goes down injured is being discussed by football's lawmakers in an effort to combat sides using a loophole to create a "tactical timeout".
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bluetonium said:
Like clockwork. Arsenal do it for years, all fine. City do it, media frenzy and lobbying for a rule change.

Still not considering the possibility the he actually had a knock apparently.

BBC News - Plan to combat tactical timeouts to be discussed - BBC Sport
www.bbc.co.uk

Plan to combat tactical timeouts to be discussed

A move to force teams to temporarily remove an outfield player if a goalkeeper goes down injured is being discussed by football's lawmakers in an effort to combat sides using a loophole to create a "tactical timeout".
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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How do they stop it tho if the keeper goes down? An outfield player can get off the pitch but not the GK. They gunna say when there's injured players on the floor other players ain't to communicate with managers or assistants? Make them all stand in the centre circle lol

Anything City do gets blown up big time. We should push GK around at every corner like Arse do, they'll soon stick a rule in place and Arsenal would struggle for top 6 lol
 
SiMCFC said:
Whilst the 'football lawmakers' are at it, can they also sort the rules around fouling keepers and illegal throw ins (most of the long balls this weekend both feet off the ground).
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From what I witness across the PL/EFL there's no such thing these days.
NL and lower they still exist, but apparently once you're reffing above that level you must be told to ignore them so the game can "flow"
 
bluetonium said:
Like clockwork. Arsenal do it for years, all fine. City do it, media frenzy and lobbying for a rule change.

Still not considering the possibility the he actually had a knock apparently.

BBC News - Plan to combat tactical timeouts to be discussed - BBC Sport
www.bbc.co.uk

Plan to combat tactical timeouts to be discussed

A move to force teams to temporarily remove an outfield player if a goalkeeper goes down injured is being discussed by football's lawmakers in an effort to combat sides using a loophole to create a "tactical timeout".
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Good.

I fucking hate it, it’s a blight on the game, and it was embarrassing that we did this on Saturday.

We sound like Arsenal fans pretending Donnarumma needed treatment, there was fuck all up with him.

But if it ends up with a new punishment law being brought in around it, just because it was us that did it and the media will play on that, then at least that’s a good thing.

Those teams who do this every game will be furious.
 
Xhavenjoe said:
But that's not right either.
Players feigning injury, time-wasting at throw ins, diving.
Need to be looked at by the rules makers
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Sick of the diving and feigning injury in our team this season. Everyone’s at it. Doku and BSilva (Bernie should have got a second yellow for his) on Saturday had a couple of shockers… Ait-Nouri, Lewis and Marmoush against Leverkusen both dived numerous times n’all, at one point I shouted at Ait-Nouri to ‘stop fucking diving for fuck’s sake’, and Lewis rolling around at one point pretending he was injured but the ref told him to get up so he did and got up and ran after the ball because there was fuck all up with him.

It’s something I was always proud of not being a part of our team’s culture when we had the likes of Kompany, de Jong, Vieira, Kolarov through to the end of Fernandinho’s time with us. It was only ever the odd player who did it. But that culture has gone now and we seem to have a squad full of divers, injury feigners and players who claim for everything.

Is it a Ljinders thing he’s brought in? I don’t remember it being this bad before this season.
 
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Managers should be up in the stands like they are in rugby. I might be able to watch an Arsenal game without wanting to throw my tele off my second floor balcony because Arteta is winding me up so much then.
 
Xhavenjoe said:
But that's not right either.
Players feigning injury, time-wasting at throw ins, diving.
Need to be looked at by the rules makers
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How exactly can it be looked at? There's no way to say conclusively that a player isn't hurt so it will never work
 
The point here really isn't whether Donna's actions were his own call, Pep's, a tactical decision, or 'cheating'.

The point is, why are the media only now starting a debate as to whether rules need to be changed?

We have been subject to all sorts of shithousery over the past decade at the Etihad, from time wasting from the first minute, to tactical fouls, to tactical timeouts.

Yet when it is our rivals, or other teams (like England) doing it, it's either ignored or made light of e.g. Arteta's "dark arts", or Pickford being "cute" for doing that exact same thing (like players and keepers have done up and down the leagues for years)

Yet now we've done it, the laws need changing, when Liverpool's goal against us was disallowed, the laws need changing, when we got rich, the laws WERE changed.

Spot a theme?
 
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