A couple of new rules might help:-
Appealing for a foul, a penalty, an award of any kind, or for an opposition player to be punished in some way will result in a direct free kick to the opposition.
Appealing for a foul or a penalty will always negate it being awarded. Play will be stopped and will be continued with a free kick to the side appealed against.
I think that would improve the standard of refereeing 100%, because it would ensure an improvement in player behaviour.
Furthermore any Media pundit who comments on a player who has deliberately committed foul to benefit his team and been punished as "having taken one for the team" will be sacked immediately or that station will lose its right to broadcast games.
Appealing for a foul, a penalty, an award of any kind, or for an opposition player to be punished in some way will result in a direct free kick to the opposition.
Appealing for a foul or a penalty will always negate it being awarded. Play will be stopped and will be continued with a free kick to the side appealed against.
I think that would improve the standard of refereeing 100%, because it would ensure an improvement in player behaviour.
Furthermore any Media pundit who comments on a player who has deliberately committed foul to benefit his team and been punished as "having taken one for the team" will be sacked immediately or that station will lose its right to broadcast games.