Filed in Football, English League, Premiership.
Increasingly sportsmanship appears to be losing its way in the beautiful game with increased incidents of diving; calling for players to be sent off or carded, the list just goes on and on.
This bad sportsmanship looks set to kill off the unwritten rule that the ball is kicked out of play so that injured players can recieve treatment. The Premier League now wants referee’s to decide when play should be stopped as some players have be faking injuring to break up oppenent attacks.
If the ref stops the game, it will result in a drop ball, if the ball is kicked out of play then it’s a normal throwing. This should also stop controversial situations arising like Marc Overmars’ goal for Arsenal against Sheffield United in their 1999 FA Cup fifth-round tie.
Since this is not part of the football laws it come down to everyone to play there part to enforce it and I think they will as managers will be telling their teams that the opposition will use throws to attack and so should they. The lower leagues have decided not to use this as they believe it’s currently not a problem there but will keep an eye open.
I can see this sticking and propergating down to the lower leagues and out to other leagues around the world. It’s sad that it has come to this but it does appear to be the right thing to do for the integrity of the game.
