They ban harsh language but not diving. It is like fixing a car radio antenna although your all tires are flat.

I think you'll find that simulation has been a bookable offence for some time.

I think you'll find that simulation has been a bookable offence for some time.

Not enough. Not even close. Retrospective bans and no one will dive.

In principle this is a good rule. My concern is that it won't be applied consistently and will be an excuse to be biased against a team.

As there will be no recording of what was said, the refs can basically claim the player said anything. This isn't the case with fouls, faking, etc where a recording allowd the public to see if the ref made a legitimate decision.

I can guarantee our players, among others, will get the short end of the stick. Costa tells the referee to f**k off? Red card. Sterling calls him a son of a bitch? Red card. Hart tells him that he w**ks too much? Didn't hear it. Kane calls him a f**king prick? Oh he's understandably frustrated, the poor lad.

Mass handbags and match gets abandoned due to both sides not having enough players will be something to behold.

Some refs actually enforced this during the Copa America. Two or three coaches were ejected for being mouthy. A player got a second yellow for being mouthy. I don't like how it was applied inconsistently, and the referees were total sh*t during the tournament overall. On the other hand, something needs to be done because the Latin Americans take it to a new level. Luis Suarez knocked out a referee when he was playing in Uruguay before he moved to Europe. There have been referees killed by players.

I would draw a line on the ref killing [emoji1]

I would draw a line on the ref killing [emoji1]

Might turn a blind eye to Clattenburg though . . .

Seems like a ridiculous rule. More red cards and less fair games is all it will achieve. We're adults, what's a bit of offensive language gonna do??

I get what you are saying, but yes, players are adults, and they should be acting like adults.

These players are multi-millionaires and role models for millions of young kids.

I dont want my kid to be stamping on other players, ridiculing and abusing the ref after every decision. 

 

Regarding to costa, I think he intentionally goes over board to wind up everyone. I think this rule is fair.

Instead of sending off players for swearing, i think it would be better to give them mild electric shocks. It would soon shut them up and we would still have 11v11 

I'll believe it when i see it being put into action. The FA are very good at issuing statements and policies... but they never get implemented. RESPECT campaign has been going on for how long now? And achieved sod all except a nice logo on the armband and pre-game handshakes which only become a circus when 2 players refuse a handshake.

Be nice to see some respect on the pitch but it aint going to happen until the FA and the referees get a spine from somewhere

Offensive language? well if the ref doesn't understand it then it doesn't count, right? easy peasy for foreigners.. 

It will be interesting to see how this is handled.  

 

As stated, what if the player is yelling in Spanish, French, or Italian, and the ref doesn't have a clue.  Maybe not being offensive, just passionate, and then the ref sends them off just because they didn't like the tone.  How is that fair?

 

Meanwhile, you've got the possibility that someone (and I'll use him as an example) like Rooney, going ballistic, and the commentators etc going on about his "passion."

 

I could see this getting very ambiguous very quickly...and don't be surprised to hear "racism" getting thrown in the mix.  "Oh the ref let Rooney call him a c*nt, and did nothing.  But Kante yells 'pour retour peau de vache' and gets a red card?  That's racist"

Football is transforming into f**king Golf!

I hate it.

As a player you should have right to challenge officials, it should be ok to yell at them and use any language you desire without getting red card, as long as you don't touch them it should be totally fine!!!!!!!!

Football is and always should be an aggressive sport!

I think those new rules are totally wrong!!!

Better to be a cool headed player who can keep his mouth shut and do his talking with his football, and ultimately win the officials respect.

The last referee I remember being tough on "back-chat" was Graham Poll and everyone critised him for "making it all about him".

The truth is, the vast majority of referees are just going out there trying to do a very very difficult job the best they can. If they can avoid controversy, they will. And that leads to referees not wanting to send players off for things like foul language.

Hell, most of the times a player strikes/touches a referee, it's the governing body pushing for lengthy bands, not the referee who would generally underplay the severity of the incident.

If an official makes a shocking decision, he desveres to get shouted at, the decisions from these officials get worse and worse every season and it's beyond a joke, they want more respect, they should try and do their jobs properly. The standard has been slipping constantly and I'm sick and tired of the F.A and their bullsh*t, they throw around fines like free cookies, now they want to mollycoddle the officials, I'm not advocating swearing at referees, but the decision making is so bad, I can understand players reactions.

the decisions from these officials get worse and worse every season

Are they really or is the game getting faster, harder to referee and with multiple cameras, tv replays showing out any mistakes made more clearly?

If an official makes a shocking decision, he desveres to get shouted at, the decisions from these officials get worse and worse every season and it's beyond a joke, they want more respect, they should try and do their jobs properly. The standard has been slipping constantly and I'm sick and tired of the F.A and their bullsh*t, they throw around fines like free cookies, now they want to mollycoddle the officials, I'm not advocating swearing at referees, but the decision making is so bad, I can understand players reactions.

They are only human, most of them, doing an extremely hard job. Seeing something from an awkward angle at full speed is one thing, seeing it from 6 different angles in super slow mo is another.

FA need to help them with technology or ear piece advice from 'upstairs'. Until then they will continue to make the same errors, and that's just the way it is

Football needs to learn from Rugby and have some kind of video technology for the officials to use. Its not just small decisions that officials are getting wrong anymore and video technology would help them out massively. 

The main reason for ref's mistakes are down to players cheating...
The list of cheating in football, that is allowed to go under the guise of 'gamesmanship' is frankly for me the worst thing about our game.

The players are a disgrace, and they deliberately make the refs job harder in the full knowledge that they will be defended by ex players when its all replayed on tv and the ref will cop the blame for a bad decision. Very rarely to ref's get penalty and foul decisions wrong if the players haven't tried to cheat which unfortunately is 99% of the time, if it isn't a dive it's exaggerating the effect of a touch. 
If you took out the 'player induced' mistakes there would be very few decisions that were wrong.