Manchester City v Brighton
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IMO the football bodies should dish out retrospective punishment for the individual for any form of cheating for bringing the game to disrepute. Probably bigger punishment if not detected on the field. Diving and feigning injury are the other obvious ones. I think a caution on the field is a proportionate punishment, just.
to be fair, the AR was within 10 yards of the incident as it was happening and the brighton player did get booked - that said the 'damage' is still done
Making 'unauthorised marks' on a penalty spot should be a sending off offence.
I don't disagree with the sentiment... it's blatant deliberate cheating, and ultimately it's just ruining turf unnecessarily because a professional footballer is not likely to not realise and miss their penalty as a result.
With that said, with the drama of a penalty award and what can follow, sometimes it can be tricky for a referee to see. Would it be fair to call it a missed red card? Maybe worth adding in to prematch to ARs to watch for that upon the award I suppose.
These premeditated cheating behaviours have to be dealt with from the top down. Players like to emulate what they see in the pro game. If it is made a sending off offence then VAR can help deal with it at the top level and set the right example for others. I do think a team of 3 officials shouldn't be missing it either.
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Nd what is the evidence that referees are good about giving technical send offs like that? This isn’t hard to fix under existing Laws. Leagues tell teams that it will be aggressively enforced. When there is a VAR review, the AR is tasked with monitoring. Heck, no reason the AR can’t stand next to the mark. AR tells the player to back off as he will be cautioned when the R returns, and if he does it again it will be. Second defect here is not the Laws, and not really the Rs. It’s the leagues letting the Rs know that the sanctions are expected and will be supported.
Just adding an additional, harsher sanction rarely does anything to solve a problem. Remember when they made a GK leaving the line early cautionable? It had zero impact. What had impact was telling teams it would be called and using VAR.
No half decent ref is showing leniency when they see a player scuffing up the penalty mark. A caution could be given every time and some players would still do it, because it is worth 'taking one for the team' to make the opposition's penalty kick more difficult.