grecian-near-hell
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One right up the guru's street and straight into his arms, only for it to slip through, but, why do the FA bother with trying to regulate goalkeepers. They are the protected species in the penalty box and also flout the rules without punishment. Three gripes that I have which are not being rigoursly picked up are.
1. Time that they hold the ball - 6 seconds, really, when was the last time we saw an indirect free kick given for a goalkeeper holding the ball. As part of their 'game management' they fall on it as our Northampton buddy did near the end on saturday, lie down for a few seconds, get up walk around the penalty area and then hoof the ball up having killed minimum of 15 seconds if not more, never any urgency when they are winning. Nothing is ever done y referees who are generally trotting back to the centre circle to catch their breath, no cautions or warnings, so why bother with the law if it isn't going to be enforced
2.Full use of the penalty Box (and more?). In teams like Northampton the goalkeeper is an important participant with regards to setting up attacks and hoofing the ball into the oppositions halves. Although difficult to judge from where we were, on a number of occasions he did look to fully utilise the 18 yard box and more, handling the ball outside the penalty box just before hoofing it up field, another offence which is invariably being overlooked by the officials as they puff their ways back up field to try and mess up an offside decision.
3.Blatant time wasting by Goalkeepers at Goal-kicks (and players for throw ins and corners). How many times have we seen a team leading by the odd goal and the ball goes out for a goal-kick, only for the Goalkeeper to run up and berate one of his colleagues, or praise whatever to waste time and slow the flow of the game, the **** on Saturday was a master of this, as well as slowly walking to the furthest side of the six yard box to eat away at valuable seconds. In this modern age of VAR, and game Management, where spectators are paying large amounts of money for 90 minutes of football, surely it is possible to stop the clock (as they do in the multi million $ sport of basketball) either by fourth official or other party to ensure that these opportunities aren't exploited, and so that each match if 90 minutes of football instead of 70.
Whilst griping initially about goalkeepers but again Saturday highlighted another failing of modern referees that of discerning between an injury that can be treated on the pitch and one that can't. Apparently if a player is booked or red carded from the incident then treatment can occur on the pitch. However if a player is otherwise injured he needs to go off the pitch and play resume only returning once the referee indicates. How many times are we seeing that with all the game management around.
Referees need to grow a pair and start to adhere to the letter of the law, be it six seconds, or injuries, then perhaps coaches will concentrate less on game management and perhaps more on entertaining their audience.
Gripe over, and sorry to the Northampton keeper it's not just him but Saturday was a frustrating day having travelled all that way to see the lack of cohesion by our boys and blatant game management from the off (because of the early goal).
1. Time that they hold the ball - 6 seconds, really, when was the last time we saw an indirect free kick given for a goalkeeper holding the ball. As part of their 'game management' they fall on it as our Northampton buddy did near the end on saturday, lie down for a few seconds, get up walk around the penalty area and then hoof the ball up having killed minimum of 15 seconds if not more, never any urgency when they are winning. Nothing is ever done y referees who are generally trotting back to the centre circle to catch their breath, no cautions or warnings, so why bother with the law if it isn't going to be enforced
2.Full use of the penalty Box (and more?). In teams like Northampton the goalkeeper is an important participant with regards to setting up attacks and hoofing the ball into the oppositions halves. Although difficult to judge from where we were, on a number of occasions he did look to fully utilise the 18 yard box and more, handling the ball outside the penalty box just before hoofing it up field, another offence which is invariably being overlooked by the officials as they puff their ways back up field to try and mess up an offside decision.
3.Blatant time wasting by Goalkeepers at Goal-kicks (and players for throw ins and corners). How many times have we seen a team leading by the odd goal and the ball goes out for a goal-kick, only for the Goalkeeper to run up and berate one of his colleagues, or praise whatever to waste time and slow the flow of the game, the **** on Saturday was a master of this, as well as slowly walking to the furthest side of the six yard box to eat away at valuable seconds. In this modern age of VAR, and game Management, where spectators are paying large amounts of money for 90 minutes of football, surely it is possible to stop the clock (as they do in the multi million $ sport of basketball) either by fourth official or other party to ensure that these opportunities aren't exploited, and so that each match if 90 minutes of football instead of 70.
Whilst griping initially about goalkeepers but again Saturday highlighted another failing of modern referees that of discerning between an injury that can be treated on the pitch and one that can't. Apparently if a player is booked or red carded from the incident then treatment can occur on the pitch. However if a player is otherwise injured he needs to go off the pitch and play resume only returning once the referee indicates. How many times are we seeing that with all the game management around.
Referees need to grow a pair and start to adhere to the letter of the law, be it six seconds, or injuries, then perhaps coaches will concentrate less on game management and perhaps more on entertaining their audience.
Gripe over, and sorry to the Northampton keeper it's not just him but Saturday was a frustrating day having travelled all that way to see the lack of cohesion by our boys and blatant game management from the off (because of the early goal).
