Following a couple of incidents at the weekend the FA will look at tv evidence before deciding whether or not to charge the players with violent conduct or the more-serious offence of serious foul play. If these players are charged, fair enough, they offended, they get punished. However, how does this help the victim? In Liverpool's case they would have been playing against ten men for a good chunk of the match. There is no easy solution to this. I've heard many options. ie. The player who offended should be taken off in the next fixture between the clubs at the time he committed the offence (can't see this working), etc. Does anyone have any solutions or should it be left as it is?
I think that if any offense is found from video replays (like diving for a penalty, or a head-butt) then the player should be sent off at half-time or a lousy penalty should be given to the opposition to make things fair.
The fourth official should be able to communicate such incidents to the Ref during the game. He should recommend the appropiate punishment i.e. Yellow/Red card. Lets face it, no one wants to be talking about the refs inability to referee after a game... It should be the football. Also it would take away those lame excuses managers always use when they lose a game. I'd also like to throw out another idea, how about sin-binning when a player recieves a yellow card? At the moment getting a yellow card outside club football does little (if anything) at all. It would make players think twice before bring down an opposition player on the edge of the box.
