2/02/2004
...and another thing...
Which just occurs to me watching the Leeds - Boro highlights...
A red card, IMO, should ONLY be for extreme measures: A horrific tackle, two REAL yellow-worthy offenses, that kind of thing. I think the rule should be changed about "professional fouls"...usually, the punishment of a free kick or a yellow card will fit the crime. The fact is, a red card not only drastically affects a given game, but it drastically affects the next one (or 2) also. And, for a goalkeeper barely clipping a guy with his fucking little toe...it's bullshit to give a red, and it smacks of the ref looking to get his name in the fucking newspaper.
A red card, IMO, should ONLY be for extreme measures: A horrific tackle, two REAL yellow-worthy offenses, that kind of thing. I think the rule should be changed about "professional fouls"...usually, the punishment of a free kick or a yellow card will fit the crime. The fact is, a red card not only drastically affects a given game, but it drastically affects the next one (or 2) also. And, for a goalkeeper barely clipping a guy with his fucking little toe...it's bullshit to give a red, and it smacks of the ref looking to get his name in the fucking newspaper.
