Billy The Fish
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Might have mentioned this before but originally refs were instructed to book players who take their shirts off after scoring because shirt sponsors were complaining. The optimum exposure for the advert on the shirt is the photo of the player celebrating a goal, arms in the air displaying the ad. Player takes his shirt off -advertiser loses out. So the massive companies paying megabucks for shirt sponsorship in the Champions League and Prem kicked off. All about the money.I think booking a player for taking his shirt off is a nonsense frankly. As long as there is nothing provocative on the under layer what's the problem? The thing that scares me is when a player runs to the fans after a goal and gets mobbed. It encourages fans to go flying forward to the barrier and I'm surprised that no one seems to get hurt. Then at the end the players are clearly told not to get closer to the Big Bank than the edge of the penalty area. Bizarre!
Never understood how this translates to lower league football however and,as you say, it's nonsense.