[Skybird]

I never understood how stubbornly football orthodox refuse to add video proofs to the tools available to the refs. Refs are only humans, too. In other professional sports it is common practice to help the referee to eliminate mistakes in his decisions. Refusing that for football is like demanding that unfairness and unsportsmanship shall have a chance to decide a game in favour of cheaters. I also never understood what they mean when talking of a "emergency foul". A Ref should decide if a foul was intentional, or unintentional. If it was intentional, then it deserves yellow, alwqys, no matter how tough or soft iot was. Becasue nowhere, as I believe, the football rules allow to bring down an opponent by means of a foul if technically he cannot be stopped. An intentional foul is not acceptable and violates the rules, always. It's a yellow one, always. In this detail, football is extremely inconsistent. Banning fouls in principle would allow for more tactical and tehcnical raffinesse in a match, the indiovidual abilities of the player would have more space to unfold, and if it leads to an easier job for attcking players and there are more goals: then it is so much better for the excitement of the audience.