Is a yellow for taking off your shirt the most stupid rule in footy?

Plant0x84 · Mar 17, 2024

Is it time to drop the mandatory yellow for taking your shirt off in the ecstasy of scoring a goal?

For me, That red for Amad is a joke. It was pure passion celebrating a winner in a quarter final derby.

Bringing the game into disrepute? The game is dirty and sullied. The authorities bring disrepute on the game, a player scoring a glorious winner does not.

What say ye Caf hive mind?

Desert Eagle · Mar 17, 2024

The fact that they do it just for the sponsors is even more cringe.

FromTheBench · Mar 17, 2024

Whats the logic behind it?

Political slogan i get but without it?

Old Ma Crow · Mar 17, 2024

Yeah it’s bullshit.

mu4c_20le · Mar 17, 2024

Who gets offended by it?

edgecutter · Mar 17, 2024

It can cause time wasting. Remember forlan couldn't get his shirt back on after taking it off.

Sweet Square · Mar 17, 2024

Gordon S · Mar 17, 2024

Absolutely stupid.

Mike Smalling · Mar 17, 2024

FromTheBench said:
Whats the logic behind it?

Political slogan i get but without it?

That can't really be the reasoning can it, because you are allowed to just pull up your shirt without removing it right?

AndySmith1990 · Mar 17, 2024

Yeah it's daft as feck. The sort of rule some shirt & tie wearing dullard makes up to appease other shirt & tie wearing dullards

Ole's screen · Mar 17, 2024

mu4c_20le said:
Who gets offended by it?

The shirt sponsors

Desert Eagle · Mar 17, 2024

FromTheBench said:
Whats the logic behind it?

Political slogan i get but without it?

They want the shirt sponsors always visible especially when scoring a goal.

duffer · Mar 17, 2024

mu4c_20le said:
Who gets offended by it?

Nobody, that's not why it's a yellow card.

Shane88 · Mar 17, 2024

FromTheBench said:
Whats the logic behind it?

Political slogan i get but without it?

Sponsors pay mucho dinero to be front and centre for those moments. Player's get punished for excluding them from that moment. Capitalism, baby.

spwd · Mar 17, 2024

With how long var takes most of the time it's nonsense to carry on with this stupid rule.

mu4c_20le · Mar 17, 2024

duffer said:
Nobody, that's not why it's a yellow card.

Yet its called unsportsmanlike conduct

duffer · Mar 17, 2024

mu4c_20le said:
Yet its called unsportsmanlike conduct

Because it falls under timewasting.

Adisa · Mar 17, 2024

Never knew it was because of sponsors. That is disgusting. How come it happens in international football, without sponsors?

Bobski · Mar 17, 2024

They have all known it for 20 years.

To be fair it made more sense when people consumed media through papers, that money shot on the Monday morning with the sponsor front and central is what they are paying for, but who buys papers these days.

Jeppers7 · Mar 17, 2024

That was a terrible terrible decision in the circumstances.

Plant0x84 · Mar 17, 2024

Desert Eagle said:
The fact that they do it just for the sponsors is even more cringe.

Absolutely

Based Adnan · Mar 17, 2024

mu4c_20le said:
Who gets offended by it?

The shirt sponsors and manufacturers

Big corps must be protected

Plant0x84 · Mar 17, 2024

mu4c_20le said:
Who gets offended by it?

Oh no! Not nipples! Oh wait he had an undershirt on.

duffer · Mar 17, 2024

Plant0x84 said:
Oh no! Not nipples! Oh wait he had an undershirt on.

It's got nothing to do with people being offended.

Plant0x84 · Mar 17, 2024

duffer said:
It's got nothing to do with people being offended.

You should be offended for your team drawing City in the semi.

prolifik · Mar 17, 2024

It's an idiotic rule, but at this point players should surely have thought of a different way to celebrate goals.

duffer · Mar 17, 2024

Plant0x84 said:
You should be offended for your team drawing City in the semi.

You drew City as well!

Plant0x84 · Mar 17, 2024

Jeppers7 said:
That was a terrible terrible decision in the circumstances.

Agree, zero discretion from the referee given the circumstances.

Anustart89 · Mar 17, 2024

duffer said:
It's got nothing to do with people being offended.

It doesn't have anything to do with time-wasting either.

Plant0x84 · Mar 17, 2024

duffer said:
You drew City as well!

I like our chances better against these sky blues. See you at Wembley?

Precaution · Mar 17, 2024

i thought it was for offending particular religions, some cultures frown upon such things.

OnlyTwoDaSilvas · Mar 17, 2024

If it's all about sponsorship visibility, then they should also be clamping down on this heinous behaviour:

Looks like he's purposely covering up Qatar Airways. He's probably more of an Emirates man. Or maybe he just opposes the aviation industry all together. Despicable, either way.

mu4c_20le · Mar 17, 2024

Precaution said:
i thought it was for offending particular religions, some cultures frown upon such things.

Genuinely thought because it winds up the opposition. Most team celebrations take far longer than the shirt off and on.

El Zoido · Mar 17, 2024

Plant0x84 said:
Agree, zero discretion from the referee given the circumstances.

They can’t though. The rules are the rules.

It’s dumb, however.

HappyCamper · Mar 17, 2024

It's a rule made to stop political messages. For simplification they just made the rule to always be a yellow. For whatever magical reason the refs don't feck it up, so let's keep it that way.

I would however be in favor of giving a walk to the first player that takes off his shirt and throw it in the stands while celebrating a goal in OT, if he's been playing all game with two identical shirts just to pull off the stupid move.

Plant0x84 · Mar 17, 2024

Exuberance is a core emotion of scoring meaningful goals. It seems particularly strange when you consider that, for many years, such a punishment did not exist, meaning players could celebrate in this way as much as they liked. The rule first took effect in 2004 and is specifically designed for a number of reasons. First, it's meant to curb time-wasting as much as possible, while it's also an act that could be considered unsportsmanlike.

Definitely seems unnecessary.

Mainoonited · Mar 17, 2024

Absolutely ridiculous.

Players should protest. If 1 person gets a card for that, everyone should take thier shirts off.

Melville Red · Mar 17, 2024

I did like the way Amad took his shirt back off as approached the tunnel and handed it to a fan.

Yagami · Mar 17, 2024

Worst rule in the sport, but we all know it's there so it was daft of Amad to do that. Especially as he could've earned himself a run in the team off the back of that winner.

Remember the geese · Mar 17, 2024

Yagami said:
Worst rule in the sport, but we all know it's there so it was daft of Amad to do that. Especially as he could've earned himself a run in the team off the back of that winner.

It wasn't daft. It was instinctive. He was obviously full of adrenaline and emotion. These are people, not robots.

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