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A limit of fouls. Any player who committed 5 individual fouls would have to leave the pitch for a period of 5 minutes, and any team that committed 25 collective fouls should be penalized with a freekick (no wall allowed) from the semicircle in front of their box.
 
A limit of fouls. Any player who committed 5 individual fouls would have to leave the pitch for a period of 5 minutes, and any team that committed 25 collective fouls should be penalized with a freekick (no wall allowed) from the semicircle in front of their box.
Woudn't that be a great incentive for divers to dive even more?
 
Anomander Rake said:
Woudn't that be a great incentive for divers to dive even more?
Divers need no incentive, Anomander; a "wiseguy" player who thinks he can deceive the ref will always try to do so. The only rule that might theorethically limit the divers' effectiveness would be to give sports courts the right to cancel game results whenever the TV cameras caught a player deceiving the ref... but such a dramatic new rule would never be accepted. Because cancelling a game's result because the TV images suggested that one player dived in an important moment may sound good if our team lost the game in question; but imagine for a moment how you would feel if your team's victory were 'cancelled', days after the match itself, because a judge decided that one of your team's players dived. People would go BERSERK! So I don't see any reasonable way to stop diving without generating even bigger complaints; the current rules just have to be properly enforced.

But introducing a limit of fouls like I described WOULD incentive all managers worldwide to drop violent players and thugs in general off their first teams, with obvious benefits to all skillful players and to the game as a whole. Defenders who are uncapable of playing on the ball and rely on physical intimidation would quickly be sent to their teams' benches, because any benefits their brutality might bring to their respective teams would be trumped by the excessive number of fouls they commit.
 
Automatic bans for players caught diving, ditto for incompentent refs, use that spray the refs in Brazil use for the 10 yards at free-kicks, and a 4th sub if a player has to go off with a serious when the other 3 subs have been used.
 
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