 Posted 24/10/2007 22:58:44
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| Is it just me that thinks that the reported decision by the FA to "set the example" at grass roots football next year in terms of behaviour, is going about it the wrong way? If you need/want to change any cultural behaviour in a group/company/organistation, you start from the TOP not the bottom - surely the FA know this or have at least some money remaining in the coffers to employ a behavioural psycohologist to tell them - if they can't figure it out for themselves, or listen to others. My team (U10s) clearly show behaviour that they see as being acceptable from TV - questioning the ref, pulling shirts, calling for a free kick the second a tackle comes in...all behaviour I vehemently desist and try to change- but I only get 2hrs a week with kids who are easily influenced by the Rooneys/ Terrys/Gerards of this world. How simple would it be for Professional footballers to be controlled by means of carding- but will the FA do this - No. Why? Because imagine Liverpool v Man Utd, live on Sky beamed around the world and 15 mins into the game, it's a 7 a side game, due to the yellow/red cards handed out for bad language, diving, pulling shirts, etc....and then another red is shown and game over ( I think I am right in saying if there is less than 7, the game is postponed) And why is Football so adamant NOT to learn from Rubgy ? Why are we so arrogant to not to even adapt anything that is good with the silly shaped ball game? Any time I hear ex refs being asked about technology etc, they are insistant on saying it won't work...give it a chance..why are they so determined to show that "they know best" even when TV replays shows them to be wrong...and there is no shame in being wrong - to be wrong is to be human. The recent World Cup is a clear example of what can be achieved. Winning is important....but has money really taken us to the point where winning is EVERYTHING...
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Posted 02/01/2008 18:58:49
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| James You are absolutely right - change starts at the top. I do believe that football would do well to learn from rugby re repect on the field for the referee!
Margaret Mead
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Posted 25/01/2008 10:50:03
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| As far as the use of video technology. I would hate for it to be introduced because i enjoy coming away from games with the different emotions each week be it feeling like my team were robbed for a decision going against us or even seeing a bad decision given in your favour is all part of the game and would be taken away from us. This would really affect football in a major way and would turn people away because you wont get that anymore if 99% of decisions are correct. You need a feeling of injustice every now and then and who doesnt love getting a dodgy decision against your rivals that wins you the game. Concentrating more on diving, abusing the ref and getting back to being able to tackle are the real problems that need to be addressed in football. Yes players complain everytime a tackle goes in, but nowadays are you really allowed to tackle anymore in football? As for rugby, they might respect the referee but there is alot of violence towards opposition players in rugby nowadays
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Posted 25/01/2008 11:23:20
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| Toatally agree Nick. If the game lost the element of "was it wasnt it" we would lose half of what we love about it in the first place. People like Sky and the media in general are the root of it by showing 100 replays from 100 angles and wondering why one person (referee) didnt see it in a split second. The game is loved by being so simple and practically unchanged but there seems to be this desire to keep changing things. Slight change of subject but am i the only person on the planet who hates teams leaving there grounds for new characterless bowls of seats?? They say it is progress but i absolutely hate it, i am no Liverpool fan but the thought of the KOP being knocked down is like blowing up big ben and parliment and building high rise flats on the lake district, its a real home of tradition with real history. Did Boro leave Ayresome so they could fill up a nice new ground with better facilities because everytime i see them the place is half empty yet the terraces at Ayresome always seemed busy and with an atmosphere. My club Birmingham City keep talking about it....St Andrews is home simple as that why put an extra 20 - 30,000 seats in a new stadium when we only have a hardcore of 30.000 followers as it is....look at Coventry they seemed to think the Ricoh would bring glory, it doesnt bring any more fans and just puts them in debt. Clubs need to look after the fans they have who followed them when they didnt have a 60,000 super ground and not keep trying to attract new ones who wouldnt have dreamt of supporting football when you had to stand up and the toilets may not have been 1st class and it wasnt "cool". Sorry to be a boring traditionalist but it DEFINATELY was better on the terraces and football seemed more magic pre - premiership...its all hype now.
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Posted 25/01/2008 11:29:32
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| In response to my own post that why i love coaching at the level i do. Its real football at grassroots level, no nonsense about technology just people who love being around the game at its root level. Why are cup ties between two premiership teams always tie of the round - we can see the premiership from 600,000 different angles every week.....Havants v Swansea was by far a more interesting prospect than Man City / West Ham yet we got that dismal showing televised!
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Posted 25/01/2008 16:53:46
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| I find I am in between the 2 thoughts on the replays. I do like the idea of leaving the human element in the game, the ref allows advantage to keep the flow going, if he had to constantly stop to watch a replay the game would fall apart. As much as I get frustrated with the huge amount of off sides that get called the wrong way lately, it is still part of the game. Although, having a few micro cameras or monitors inside the goal to conclusively decide a goal would not be difficult or disruptive, you could have an official watching the screen and talking to the ref on the field if it looks like he missed the goal. Where I would like to see the cameras used is after the games, to go back and watch for fouls and dives missed by the ref. If the league came down hard on these players, they would eventually get the message. As it is now, they walk off the field laughing to their mates about the things they got away with. Divers in particular, should be getting a card and a substantial fine. I would even consider going to an extreme position; I get angry when I see some player rolling around like he has a broken leg, replays show he wasn't even touched, he gets stretchered off, then bounces up and wants back on the field right away. How about, if a player is stretchered off, he must wait a minimum 10 minutes before reporting to the 4th official. The problem with all this comes back to us, our kids see the stars get away with it, and they copy. If I have a kid go down, he gets subbed off immediately, if I see that he was diving, he stays off longer than normal. If he was hurt, he proves to me that he is safe to go back in, then at the next stoppage he is back.
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Posted 07/02/2008 20:56:36
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| I once read a cartoon about Video technology that made the point that the first thing the video point sout is that the goal did in fact go in. And then It sees a handball in the build up to the goal so that should have been a free-kick But before that there was a shirtpull But a kick before that And the ball had gone out for a throw before that. For me goaline techology takes away the magical unpredictability of football. I'll scream gor video cameras whenever my team concede a dubious goal but when it favours my team I'm not bothered. THAT is the magic of football.
Calum McIntyre
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