FIFA panel proposes adjustment to red card rule

[lefty]

FIFA doing something right

A FIFA panel proposed Tuesday that referees be more lenient with players who foul in the penalty area.

The FIFA Task Force Football 2014 led by Franz Beckenbauer agreed that the so-called "triple punishment" of penalty, red card and suspension is too severe.

"A penalty is enough if it is a simple foul or a tackle where you try to get the ball but you are a second late," said Beckenbauer, a World Cup-winning player and coach with West Germany. "If you have a violent foul, if it would have been a red card anywhere on the field, then it's a penalty and a red card."

[Venti Quattro]

You mean like how they easily pulled the red card on Drogba and Bosingwa?

[ElNono]

Plus suspensions mess up with their buddies in the betting Mafia...

[velik_m]

I don't even remember the last time i saw a red card on a penalty, it's usually a yellow unless it's a clear chance at the goal.

[Muser]

You mean like how they easily pulled the red card on Drogba and Bosingwa?

Drogba's red was well deserved, dreadful tackle.

I like the idea though.