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Quote from: Lionator27 on Sat 01 Nov 2025 23:12

The Bergvall incident at the start of the game shows how important it is that concussion substitutions come into the game. Take him off, do an assessment, if he passes it then he can come back on. Having permanent substitutions will make it very tough to get players to go off, especially if it turns out they’re just dazed and not concussed.

Agree 100% in principle, but I need to be shown how it can be successfully deployed WITHOUT teams using it to their advantage.  For clarity, I mean faking a head injury to give a player a break (or have an "impact" sub for 10 minutes) and then return him to the game.

Quote from: Lionator27 on Fri 24 Oct 2025 17:21

I think some of the rhetoric here is a bit harsh. It’s a mess up of course, it’s a technicality that the officials should’ve known. But in this case, standing them down and punishing them isn’t going to help anyone as they’re already going to be beating themselves up over it. Get them back out there the next week and support them while sending them a new copy of the LOTG.

The clubs wouldn't agree. The home club have to shell out for the cost of putting the game on again, paying the match officials, all of which costs money.  The away team have to pay for travelling again, and all of this is because three match officials didn't know the laws of the game.  I know at one point there was a suggestion put to the FA than when a game had to be replayed due to refereeing errors the costs should be recovered from the match officials, this was rejected but I'd say there is an argument to say they should forfeit their match fees.