10 of the most ridiculous rulings in football
The lack of a salary cap – Following on from the implications of the Bosman case having no salary cap for players’ wages ensures that simply the richest clubs are allowed to pay over the odds for players. Manchester City is the most recent and obvious example of a club being able to pull in players from other clubs simply by offering that player a much bigger pay check than his current club could. Also surely it is simply morally wrong for footballers to be earning five or six times the national average wage in a week.
Acceptance of ‘Professional fouls’ – When say a team are counter-attacking and a player on the defending team deliberately fouls a player so a free kick is given in a relatively harmless position and they are able to get numbers back to defend. This is often glazed over by commentators as the defender ‘using their experience’. But I feel it gives an unfair advantage to the defending team through cheating, and more should be done to ensure the attacking team kept the advantage of numbers that they had.
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If a player’s been punished on the pitch he cannot be suspended retroactively by the governing body – Even if a player is seen afterwards to have severely broken the rule to the extent that everyone is agreement they should have been sent off, if the referee gave say a yellow card for the incident. The governing body is subsequently powerless to reassess the incident and decide if a more severe punishment is required.
The January Transfer window – Has been an odd addition to the game since it was introduced in the 2002-03 season. It encourages panic buying, leads to an inflation of transfer fees therefore hindering smaller clubs and allows big clubs that had perhaps faltered an unfair advantage to add to their squads. Its main appeal is not for football reasons but from media who love to sell rumours and feed of the excitement of transfers, along with fans who are encouraged to be excited by who their club could bring in during the window.
Having to leave the field of play before returning if you pick up an injury – The thinking behind this law was to ensure the game could flow as an injured player wasn’t being treated on the field. Yet how it is carried out in today’s game ensures an advantage to the team who have usually been in the wrong by injuring an opposition player. There are countless examples when this man advantage, however brief, has led to goals.
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Compiled by Joe Walsh for FootballFanCast.com – view the original HERE
