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  • Penalities are a weird little minigame that don’t really represent the most important skills of soccer, which are things like field position and control of the ball.

    Disagree - the most important skill in football ⚽ is scoring more goals than the opposition. I love penalty shootouts, they’re incredibly tense, and they require nerves of steel and a lot of skill. People sometimes say they’re a lottery, but that’s nonsense IMO.

    Also disagree on the stopped clock model. Football ⚽ is the most popular and widely played sport in the world, and it hasn’t needed stopped clocks to get there. Stopped clocks would just lead to commercial breaks.

    There’s far too much tinkering with the game as it is, what with VAR and miked up referees and such. The game was fine for decades, and loved by billions of people. I wish they’d just leave it alone.


  • Soccer: yellow card for faking injuries

    Yellow card for simulation is already a rule. It’s just not applied all that consistently, possibly because it’s very hard to be sure that someone definitely wasn’t fouled and also was deliberately feigning anything, as opposed to genuinely being hurt or at least being knocked over by a nonetheless fair challenge.

    Microphoned ref is becoming a thing now, but I absolutely hate it. Just like VAR it slows the game down horrendously and is not needed. Refs have the tools they need to run the game (including hand gestures and red cards, as you said). They don’t need to explain every last thing verbally.