Agree that football needs to be more disciplined (like Rugby) and that players shouldn't argue with the ref?
956906
i agree...if you argue with the ref then you have to move bk so many yards..so the more you argue the worst it gets for your team...that would soon stop the time wasters! i dont think they should bring in sin bins or anything like that because thats not football. i do also agree with the way red cards are treated in rugby! if you get a red card then you know you are going to be out for a few months in rugby!
1036183
I disagree with this.  McBride needed to leave the field for blood but should not be forced to sit out for a mandatory sentence.  This would be like hockey, or even worse lacrosse, having a penalty box.  Cristiano Ronaldo got hurt early on in the game against Netherlands but forcing him to stay off the field for a minor injury is not the way to go.  If referees do their job, there will not be a problem with dives.
1047492
The problem is not only related to FIFA, or soccer in general.  Last years NFL's superbowl was won be a team that should not have won it.  It appeared the reason they won, was so the coach could go into the Hall of Fame.  The coach had not won a superbowl before then, and apparently, even though he is a good coach, no one would recognise him as a good coach.\nThe NRL's grand final, and regular season is tainted towards what teams the NRL wants to win that weekend.\n\nIMHO, it is because the players, and team officials are taking the focus away from the governing bodies.  It is their game remember, not the players who play, nor the spectators that watch.  Therefore, the governing bodies are deciding the only way the regain that focus, is to create controversy that only the governing body can deal with.\n\nIt is starting to get the way that you cannot watch a fair game of sport any more.\n\nEdit: Video replays would only suffer from the same problems.  If the referee, and the governing body do not want that team to win, then the referee watching the video will just happen to not see the vital piece of information.
741967
I'm leaning toward Rugby players.  Because the pushing against each (is that a scrum?)  Tackling and getting up, getting grabbed and still kicking the ball.  Even though soccer players get beat up too but the contact is really not allowed.  Contact is not a legal part of the game.
510558
Its a cross between boxing and chess, in the past you had battles. Today there is rugby. A battle with tactics and physicality, without the chance of being killed. How can that not be fun ?
1090670
Rugby is great (but real football is even better.)\n\nIt is unfortunate that a minority of rugby fans spout nonsense like yours and taint intelligent fans with an undeserved reputation for moronic remarks.\n\nAs for "bob t", a psychologist would say that a preoccupation regarding so-called "manly" sports denotes sub-conscious tendencies in the opposite direction. Take care, bobby ...
1126732
I feel your frustration and I am in agreement with your assessment. Too many false red-cards have found their way from referees pockets into play during this cup -- which is completely opposite from the 2002 World Cup play (battles).   I like the game but these politics keep me from devoting too much time to following this sport professionally.
1162943
There is too much passion in football for referees to be making wrong calls. I think the time is long due for FIFA to introduce   a 4th referee who will be watching replay before important decisions like Penalty and Red card and some funny call are made. Until that is done, weaker teams will have to suffer from some of these referees who think too highly of some nation that others. This world cup would have been far better if instant replay had been introduced. The referees are killing the game and swinging the wins the wrong way and that upset me. Its a pain to go out in a world cup on wrong calls.
732388
they should stomp down on people's throats after they've been tackled.  that's how the game was meant to be played.
1092005
the game today was kinda wack with the ref stuff. but i think that if they could sub out refs, that would undermine the ref's authority. also, another problem would come in about who has the right and descretion of removing a ref...and therefore would it be right to remove that person making the decision and so on. \n\nthe ref from today's game though probably wont be making another appearance in these games. this guy was actually suspended 5 years ago for bad calls.
1068256
Disgraceful. FIFA'S way of punishing Australia for the Kewell incident. But how high did they rise above the challenge. I never thought I could feel more proud. Anyway back to Poll. Tackle on Viduka ignored, 2 handballs by the same Croatian player ignored. Croatian player manhandles the referee during a hissy fit and is allowed to stay on the field. Brett Emerton's 2nd yellow card was a farce. The Croatian Captain allowed to stay on the field after a second yellow card and don't even try to tell me a referee is that stupid he could make a mistake like that. He ignored it and issued a 3rd yellow card. They were just the main things. What a joke. Let's see if FIFA have the guts to discipline him like they should. This only proves my case for a minimum fee for referee's with a negotiated balance after the match based on their performance. $40 000 to give a performance like that.
1118607
I can see your point about players who go for a 50-50 tackle, lie down till the Doc comes on, Then the stretcher and goes off and is up on his feet within seconds to get back on the field of play,\nsomething needs to be done about this, but can you really be sure??\nWhat must happen is that EVERY time this happens ALL time wasted must be added to the clock even if it means 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12 minutes is added on players and IMPORTANTLY Managers and Coaches will soon put an end too it.\n\nNOW an all together PROBLEM is when,\nA player deliberately tries to fool a Referee into having an opponent sent off for serious foul play,\nThis cannot be tolerated and FIFA should take action and suspend and or Fine these players.
322461
It would change the entire nature of the game and, being a traditionalist, it would ruin it.  All FIFA needs to do is make the officials ACTUALLY call the rules as they are written.  This would keep the thugs (defenders) from mugging their opponents, creating the offensive space needed to make the game fun.  Just go back and watch the matches in the last world cup that were called by the tall, bald Italian official...great, fun, exciting matches because he called them as they should be!!!!!!
358156
Normally about missed tackles, who's fault it was to conceed a try etc. Captain should sort it out there and then, if he can't then the players involved should be droped.
1164017
I agree the refereeing has been bad, but I however don't feel it is all their fault.  Fifa has told them to referee a certain way, which is way more tight then players are used too.  This in turn create way more cards.  While there have been some awful decisions like the 3 yellows, or the PK against the US, most of the refereeing is following the strict rules fifa has put in place.  Referees are just easy scapegoats, they are the middlemen in fifa's plan to clean up the game, and get rid of bad challenges, dives, and time wasting.  I feel right now players are having a hard time adjusting to this, and therefore we are seeing way more cards.
905385
I can see where you are coming from and you have a good point.\n\nIt would be a great system to implement. I think it would help if the refs had to speak with an independent person and actually give a reason for some of their calls.\n\nPersonally, I'm fine with how the game is right now. I really don't want football to become like every other sport. I think some things, good or bad, have helped shape the game into the exciting, fair and unfair, chaotic, fun, energizing, and whatever else game that it is today.\n\nBut that is a great idea, nonetheless. Good thinking :)
429306
A football player should be sacked if they  drink driving.\nTheir example is most important specially in the eyes of the young ones that never waist any time to copy the champions of their dreams. As they want to be just like them,they would do anything  to get the same  popolarity.\nIf the penalty sound too taught then, my advise is,DO NOT DRINK DRIVING,than no one, would do you any arm,while on the road whith few drinks ,they become criminals therefore at this stage, they should be  treated like one.