The French League Justice Heroes are at it Again
By: Sam | August 7th, 2007
Yesterday, the Ligue de Football Professionel and Direction Nationale de l’Arbitrage came together to produce nine suggestions to “help out” the flow of the game and the general well-being and law-abiding going-about of the game. Among the nine points, it can be found that the referees will frown upon players putting the ball into touch when there’s an injured player on the field, and won’t hesitate to book a player for pulling a piece of fabric out of his sock.
Here’s a quick rundown of what the big guys have decided:
1. Putting the ball into touch to get a stoppage in play for an injury is wrong. It won’t be a cautionable offence, but the decision was taken because many incidents arise when some players don’t follow the unwritten rules following the injury (remember Holland-Portugal in the World Cup).
2. Refs will be much stricter with defenders with “busy hands” in the penalty area when defending corner kicks.
3. Any aerial challenge in which an errant arm or hand touches an opponent’s face will be punished with a yellow card.
4. The fourth official isn’t worthless.
5. Players have to be evacuated from the pitch before being treated by the medical staff, unless it’s a serious injury, or if it’s the goalkeeper.
6. If a player happens to go up to the ref to beg him to caution an opponent, a yellow card will be shown… to the guy who bitches! How about that!
7. Any extra-footballistic celebration (message on shirt, baby pacifier) will be written down by the ref and brought before the discipline commission. (What a fucking dumb rule – ed.)
8. The slightest act of disrespect towards a player’s own shirt will lead to a yellow. That includes gripping it and swaying it everywhere, or viciously tugging at the club’s logo.
9. Any player who climbs in the slightest onto the protective fences of the stadium will be cautioned.
And that’s all they could muster this time. Tune in next season for a ban of talking to opponents and touching the ball after a whistle.
Category: France Ligue 1
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What, no ban on saying, “you smell?”
I’m shocked.
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Yeah the damn Frenchies love to have their government control their lives. Every single on of those rules is stupid and completely unpractical. Do they want there to be 13 yellow cards a game?
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What’s stupid about these rules is that you get used to it and they’re not applied everywhere in Europe. Remember when Ryan Giggs scored that goal during the Champions League last year against Lille. In the Ligue 1, he would have been booked, but the goal was validated. Everybody in France was shocked but these people were in part responsible. We can’t keep on having an “exception culturelle” for everything.
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I guess they really have nothing better to do.
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