UEFA to introduce new rule?

God

Super Moderator

Apparently Uefa wants to copy the rule from rugby where only the teams captains can discuss, argue with the ref during the match.

The communication director William Gaillard, sees the situation today as "dangerous" and he says that the captains have a huge responsibility to better the conflict.
He points to the relationship between refs, players and managers getting whorse and that the real problem lies in the lower divisions where they have atacked refs somewhere about every other week . This is a problem for recrutation of refs in lower divisions and Uefa fears that this will spread to the higher ones.

The retired ref David Elleray is somewhat skeptic about copying rules from rugby and says that it will be very sad if you cant express your opinion or tell the ref about a bad desicion. But he stress the fact that the accept of mistakes from refs must be higher.
"We comment when players make mistakes, like when Saha missed the penalty against Celtic. It was a crucial mistake, but he didnt do it on purpose and that error didnt make him an incompetent player. But if it was a ref doing a similar crucial mistake people would start to question his integrity, judgement and competence."

Opinions?

Mikk

WC's Sexy Beast

It would be good to see as it would only be the captain talking to the ref and could stop all the descent onto the referee as that is just wrong when a foul is given that is maybe a little controversial and then the ref gets surrounded by players and probably feels a little intimidated to actually take action.


I'm glad fifa and uefa are actually addressing certain situations and not just turning a blind eye.

Tyler Durden

Yes please, one of the many things I would love to see happen in footie

The Phantom

I'm all for this. It works well in Rugby Union and should defiantly be adopted by the football world. What you'll see is that captains and referees build up a bit of a relationship, and from that they can discuss stuff in a rational manner (similarly to how Jose Mourinho and Alan Whiley did a few weeks ago) instead of shouting at each other. Also we could get to see a bit of banter between the two, instead of this schoolmaster/pupil thing we see at the moment.