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White Card for fair play

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Not for me. Might work for a non-competitive under 7s tournament, but please no further

Just another subjective decision to argue about, but with absolutely no consequence, so a complete waste of time. Also likely to be seen as a badge of dishonour for some

Puts me in mind of a chat I had with a club official about the Respect League table operating in their league based on disciplinary sanctions.

His attitude, which isn't hard to understand, was
- You don't want to be right at the bottom - they are the horrible clubs and nobody likes them
- Equally you don't want to be at the top - that's for teams who lose nicely, not for winners
- somewhere in the middle is just fine
 
es1 said:
absolutely not
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Aye, teams will see it as the referee expressing favouritism towards the team the card is awarded to. Some nonsense like that anyway.
FIFA/IFAB/UEFA whoever, they'll do anything to avoid dealing with the problems head-on. Yellow cards and red cards.... and we're not talking first yellow card with second yellow immunity.!
Interestingly, when a ref (like Gillet... Sunderland v Middlesbrough) has shown a second yellow for a behaviour offence, the football world has rounded on the referee for ruining the game. Anyway, I don't see any value in the white card idea
 
Hard enough to officiate and see everything that happens during the course of a game without having to also monitor acts of positive behaviour!

I can see the 'Why didn't I get a white card? You gave him one!' scenarios already!
 
Rubbish.
Platini should be ashamed, get off the high horse and do “anything” to improve the game - rather than this narcissism!
 
george.g said:
Or, make them function like a normal yellow card in terms of accumulation! There's an idea for some...
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I think I’d prefer this even more, but if they insist on being awkward, at least make it clear what is happening.
 
Big Cat said:
Interestingly, when a ref (like Gillet... Sunderland v Middlesbrough) has shown a second yellow for a behaviour offence, the football world has rounded on the referee for ruining the game.
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It's insane, isn't it? Players are expected to take absolutely no responsibility for their actions because "it's an emotional game."

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RyantheRef said:
It's insane, isn't it? Players are expected to take absolutely no responsibility for their actions because "it's an emotional game."

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At the professional level its a show,a drama,a film or whatever. At recreational level it is supposed to be a game,a sport or a fun pastime. Unfortunately the latter recreate what they see the former doing and are unable to separate the two from each other.
 
SpecsSaver66 said:
At the professional level its a show,a drama,a film or whatever. At recreational level it is supposed to be a game,a sport or a fun pastime. Unfortunately the latter recreate what they see the former doing and are unable to separate the two from each other.
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I completely understand what you're saying and agree with you. The grassroots and recreational game cannot be what the professional game is. But the majority of participants will not understand that.
 
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