Football is not a gameshow, and referees should not stage-manage the action to ensure a more ‘entertaining’ product
t was a bright, clammy afternoon in August, and the clocks were striking one hundred and thirteen. Midway through the second half at, with the score 1-1, Chelsea engaged in a spell of concerted forward thrust, and with Liverpool adjusting to a double substitution, Trent Alexander-Arnold pressed the damper pedal for a moment.
It is now two weeks since the onset of the International Football Association Board’s latest tinkering with the spectacle.– because there must always be a crackdown – centres on various aspects of comportment and behaviour. Most notable and most covertly transformative is the brief empowering of referees to take aggressive action against time-wasting.
Why is this happening? As ever, follow the money. The drive to increase active “game time” comes directly from Fifa. And Fifa is essentiality a TV rights distributions agency, its entire model based around increasing screen revenues.
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