Simple really. Have a time-keeper responsible just like in rugby league. Every time there is an unnatural stoppage such as an injury or a substitution or clear time-wasting then the ref simply has to signal to the time-keeper who will stop the clock which would be on public display on the video screen/scoreboard (if clubs don't have one then make them get one). That way everyone knows exactly how long there is to play and it actually discourages time-wasting to a certain extent as players know they will not get away with it because time will be stopped (not added on, stopped)
The stoppage time concept as it stands is an absolute load of bollocks, imagine Monday nights game at Old Trafford having just 3 mins stoppage time? There would have been at least 5 and we know this. The substitution in stoppage time is one of the most blatant acts of time-wasting along with players feigning injury and is never punished, stop the clock and it will stop happening so often.
As for the verbal abuse of match officials, then simply mike the refs up every game and send the tape to the FA afterwards, relay the sound on the PA system as in rugby union so everyone in the ground can hear just who the whining c*nts are and then let the FA dare not punish them. Serial offenders to get banned and the club punished too, all out in the open so no allegation of prejudice. Players would very quickly get the message, it worked in rugby and footballers are such pussies nowadays that it couldn't fail to work in the 'beautiful game' could it?
Won't happen any time soon because the FA are spineless, corrupt, incompetent twats to their very core but it would make sense
Spot on that mate.
This next point of mine would depend on the refs growing balls, but still, worth putting forward. Sin binning. Now before you all start shouting at me, I mean sin binning for specific events. Mainly i'm thinking back chatting. Talking back to refs the way some do is supposed to be a straight yellow. You know the type, Rio's veins pulsating in his head as he screams in the refs face, that kind of thing. Give the fuckers a yellow and 10 mins off the pitch. I'm talking serious abuse to the refs or officials, not the small "oh fuck off" that gets shouted, that's alright it's just a natural reaction and alright as it normally is just that.
It's the surrounding of officials to try and influence the games. Make it so that only that captain can talk to the ref and even then he should be polite-ish about it. If there's a situation where, for example, Lampard, Terry, ballack and cole are around the ref screaming, poking, abusing him over a decision then bang, 4 yellows and chelsea pay the price by having 4 players off the pitch for 10 mins.
Same with the likes of Rooney who seem to feel that they can scream abuse at lineo's without any punishment.
Mistimed challenges that earn a yellow, no sin bin, just the yellow and a warning as they'll be off the next time. But this is the only way to get some respect for the refs back into the game as far as I can see and allow the refs to actually ref the games fairly.
