Fixing Football

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Clubs can only spend what they earn

Do away with lower league football or if not possible, put less importance on it and make it like the lower leagues in Spain and Italy. Put the money saved there in developing kids for premiership clubs.

Have referees come out and face the music after matches

That will never happen, too many teams for it to happen.

[fakeyank]

It's an accepted fact now that football is shit - and this is in no way related to us being garbage.

Ways to improve it or make it more interesting?

Goalline-tech is a given.

Video tech - I want a challenger system like in Tennis; each captain gets 1 challenge per match. That ensures they won't use it for stupid stuff like a shirt-pull on the halfway line and save it for the big decisions they felt were called wrong.

Salary cap - and all that financial fairplay shit that was supposed to come in soon 5 years ago. Emphasis on results-related pay.

Transparent ranking system for referees - evaluate proportion of right calls they made during each game and rank them. The challenger system would also help to see which ones are continuously getting the big decisions wrong. And we all know reffing's a hard job so the good ones at the top of the ranking would earn some kudos.

Retrospective punishment - for dangerous tackles, diving and stuff like that. But it'd be very hard to prove someone was diving even though it seems easy.

Go.

Salary cap is bull.. we should never have something like that! If a player is good enough, then you pay up! Rest of them are good.

[Marc Overmars]

Clubs can only spend what they earn

Do away with lower league football or if not possible, put less importance on it and make it like the lower leagues in Spain and Italy. Put the money saved there in developing kids for premiership clubs.

Have referees come out and face the music after matches

Our lower leagues contain a lot of clubs with a proud history and fanbase, Forest, Leeds, West Ham etc. Most Football League clubs here are much bigger than their counterparts in Italy and Spain, so I don't think it would be fair to neglect them in the same way. Plus IIRC The Championship is the 4th most watched league in Europe behind the Prem, La Liga and Serie A.

[PGFC]

Have you tried switching it off and then on again?

[Coney]

Have you tried switching it off and then on again?

No good. The FA forgot to put the plug in.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Salary cap is bull.. we should never have something like that! If a player is good enough, then you pay up! Rest of them are good.

Nah Salary caps are important, it gives everyone or every team and equal playing field and we will see more players going to clubs which they feel is best for them, not which feels up their bank accounts more.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

dunno whats been said but here's a few:

- referees watch linked up to the main clock - when he presses pause it pauses the clock. that way everyone knows what the fucking time is and there's no need for added time as clock is paused.
- wage cap. leaves players to maximise earnings through marketing/sponsorship instead.
- monday morning a panel of ex pro's/referees sit down. look through incidents of diving, cheating, unsporting behaviour and dish out heavy fines (we're talking 500k here not 20k) or match ban. after 2 weeks they'd all stop fucking around trust me.
- have mic from ref linked to the tv so we know whats being said. also gives incentive to stop players swearing etc as the mainstream public can hear whats going on and fa can punish offendors with the excuse that children can hear it live.
- 5 minute sin bin
- referee league/linesman league published in every national newspaper on monday morning. this way we can see who the shit refs are and the mistakes they make.
- video technology or have a ref in each half

off the top of my head.

[Dog Toffee]

No that's silly, what happens if a player commits a tackle with the same recklessness but there's no injury resulting from it?

I think endangering an opponent should come with a greater suspension though.

Yeah, of course there are obvious flaws to this one, perhaps just the threat of working in McDonalds should do it?

I just hate it that it takes players years to come back to full fitness, or never, whilst the guy who assaulted him (if anyone got their legs broken in the street ((Shawcrossed)), they'd get prison time) is back in 3 games. Very unfair.

[fakeyank]

Nah Salary caps are important, it gives everyone or every team and equal playing field and we will see more players going to clubs which they feel is best for them, not which feels up their bank accounts more.

Why should a player not get paid for how good he is? Its like you being the most amazing programmer in the world and still making 60K a year for life!

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Why should a player not get paid for how good he is? Its like you being the most amazing programmer in the world and still making 60K a year for life!

Are you talking about players in the same team or not. I just think if each club can offer a certain amout of wages, then we will see players playing for the love of the game not for the money.

I mean take Eto would he have gone to play in racist russia for 150K if that was the wage cap in Europe probs not he'd go somewhere else. Just seems players are selling out for top wages not because they want to play the game.