Morning all.
So, the second week of Premier League fixtures has handed, and we’re one in all simply three groups to have taken most factors. The others are Man Metropolis and free-scoring Brighton. Now we have numerous room to enhance, clearly, however in relation to factors – to date, so good.
I’ve to say, I’m nonetheless a bit cheesed off with the Takehiro Tomiyasu pink card. I believe most followers would agree chopping down on time-wasting is an effective factor, however I’m struggling to see the right way to sq. the circle of additional added time + bookings is the fitting solution to go about it. When you’re including the time anyway, the yellow playing cards don’t make good sense. Simply inform them to rush up. In the event that they don’t, add the time. There is no such thing as a benefit, and reserving gamers over throw-ins, which are sometimes troublesome to execute by way of discovering a teammate, feels only a bit performative to me.
I additionally assume probably the most egregious time-wasting tends to come back from goalkeepers, not least after they have the ball of their arms. There’s an precise rule about this:
An oblique free kick is awarded if a goalkeeper, inside their penalty space, commits any of the next offences:
controls the ball with the hand/arm for greater than six seconds earlier than releasing it.
We routinely see goalkeepers holding onto the ball for much longer than that, but it’s nearly by no means punished. I can’t bear in mind the final time I noticed it occur. Conversely, there’s no set time restrict for taking a throw in. It seems to be on the discretion of the referee. Ben White was booked in direction of the tip of the Nottingham Forest sport for not taking one shortly sufficient – I went again to look and he had the ball in his arms for simply 9 seconds earlier than the referee determined that was too lengthy and gave him a yellow card. I’m positive there have been different throws in that sport which took far longer.
On Monday evening, Tomiyasu had the ball for 8 seconds when he was booked. Through @scottjwillis: Earlier than the objective Crystal Palace had throw-ins that took 27, 25, 22, and 22 seconds, and Arsenal had a throw-in that took 44 seconds that went unpunished.
Mikel Arteta referenced it in his post-match interview the place he mainly mentioned no one has any thought what the rule is for a throw-in. ‘Is it 3 seconds?’, he requested. It’s not that low, however what’s the bar, and has something like that been communicated to the gamers/golf equipment? It appears not, as a result of whereas they’ve been advised there can be a crackdown, there don’t seem to have been any specifics – which most likely could be fairly helpful. Not all footballers are good, however I’m fairly positive they will all depend to no less than 10. If it’s 10.
The opposite factor that annoys me about Tomiyasu sending off is once more tied to the brand new edicts which the PGMOL have put in place firstly of the season. Certainly one of which is that this:
Leniency on “bodily” challenges
On the pitch, as an try to permit the sport to stream higher and scale back stoppages, a better threshold can be utilized to “contact” between gamers – which means there ought to be fewer free-kicks awarded for incidents which final season would possibly effectively have been penalised for being overly bodily.
How does that stack up then with regards Tomiyasu and the second yellow? Particularly in mild of the problem on Saka that Ayew made when he was on a yellow from the primary half. If that was a case of the referee making use of leniency due to these new edicts, why didn’t the identical apply to Tomiyasu? I believe it must also spark a debate concerning the incapacity to enchantment two yellows. When Alexis Mac Allister has had his pink card overturned – and rightly so in my view – why is there no technique for gamers who’ve been despatched off for 2 yellows?
Officers get issues fallacious, even on this period of VAR, so if an Unbiased Regulatory Fee can evaluate and rescind a pink card like Mac Allister’s, why can’t they evaluate the yellow playing cards of a weekend and make related judgements? Even when it’s simply to double test that two yellows, which end in a suspension in fact, are 100% merited.
I don’t suppose it makes any distinction now, the foundations are what they’re, however each season we get these ‘let if stream’ type amendments which make it appear like officers are being proactive, however fundamental stuff like this stays unchanged. To not point out that after a few months they have an inclination to fall by the wayside anyway, and we return to the place we had been – till the beginning of the subsequent season they usually introduce some new nonsense as soon as extra.
Anyway, it’s good to gripe after taking all three factors at Selhurst Park regardless of the difficult finish to the sport due to the pink card. Little doubt it’s one thing the supervisor can be speaking to his gamers about forward of the sport towards Fulham on the weekend, however I’m curious to see what number of different gamers fall sufferer to those new requirements. My guess isn’t many, however let’s see the place we’re after the approaching weekend.
Proper, I’m going to go away it there for now. There’s a model new Arsecast Further out for you, and for those who haven’t had an opportunity to hear, it’s beneath. Take pleasure in.
