FIFA Clamps Down on Goal Celebrations

Chardee MacDennis

Good to see FIFA has its priorities straight.

From Football365.com

Diving is an endemic problem that seems to get more and more coverage every week. The offside law is a shambles; no-one knows what's happening, least of all the referees. Every corner or free-kick around the box sees defenders pulling shirts or holding attackers. Every game features players gesturing for their fellow professionals to be booked or sent off.

A policeman was killed in Italy less than two weeks ago by rioting fans. A French fireman lost his fingers trying to remove an explosive thrown into the pitch from the crowd. Hooliganism mars Dutch football. Black players are openly abused in Spain and Eastern Europe.

Third-party ownership of players has reduced any sort of control over transfers to a laughing stock. A bung culture apparently dominates the English game, covered up by a media scared to lose their special relationship with clubs. Small clubs are left to rot as big clubs get richer and richer. Television and money run the game. Men like Peter Ridsdale have free rein to bankrupt club after club. The FA Cup draw has been moved to Mondays.

International friendlies cripple squads at crucial parts of the season. The African Nations' Cup snatches away players from top divisions in Europe every two years, and no apparent attempt has been made to find a compromise. The next World Cup is likely to be marred by higher levels of crime than have ever been seen at the world's premier football tournament.

FIFA executives sell tickets on the black market for ridiculous profits. So do a hell of a lot of other people. Football shirts, shorts and boots are made for pennies in third-world sweatshops and flogged for vastly inflated prices. Peter Kenyon still exists.

And so Mediawatch can only applaud the FIFA delegates who have found time to bring in new laws for next season that will see a player celebrating a goal booked for such things as 'cupping his ear with his hand or holding a finger across his mouth in a 'Silence, please' gesture, Klinsmann-type dives or dancing round the corner flag.'

Seriously lads. Well done.

Mossy Monk

thats Henry ****ed then

lol

thebaz

it will be great when all emotion is eradicated from the game --
Can you imagine if Rugby and GAA incorporated such nonsense -- at least QPR and China aren't taking FIFA too seriously , in there attempt to put soccer to sleep !

BaZmO*

That's ridiculous. I can understand a player getting booked for jumping into the crowd but "dancing around a corner flag"? :rolleyes:

bucks73

Once again Sepp and his buddies have their priorities right.

redspider

I think its a good idea to clamp down on after-goal excessive celebrations. Gone are the days of a jog back to your own half and a handshake along the way.

One positive way to do it perhaps would be to allow the other team to do an immediate kick-off. Players blocking them doing so would be booked and players in the centre circle would get booked as well. That should ensure a speedy return to the action. Mind you, when do the punters at home get to see the action replays, although split screen could be used for that.

The writer of that article rightly points out some of the problems with the sport, although he exaggerates some, but that doesnt mean that over-celebrations are not a problem as well.

My motto, if something should be fixed - fix it!

Redspider

Jimboo_Jones

hummm couldn't disagree with you more there. Football is a fun pssionate sport - players should (as long as they are not inciting, or hurting anyone) be able to express their emotions from time to time.

I dont know how you could have an immediate kick off as the attacking team would have most their team in the opponents half - the defending golie could lump the ball into the centre circle a lot faster than even Henry could get there

BaZmO*

redspider wrote:

but that doesnt mean that over-celebrations are not a problem as well.

But in the context of the other problems it's hardly high on the list of priorities.

Pepe LeFrits

Morons.

Kojak

bucks73 wrote:

Once again Sepp and his buddies have their priorities right.

Exactly :rolleyes:

Maybe they can have it that if a player smiles after scoring a goal, they can give him a booking. :rolleyes:

Another rule that is only going to cause more trouble than it is worth, IMO.

Ruu_Old

The lads at FIFA are earning their few thousand grand a year then. What a waste of time.