Is it any wonder then, that managers and players are angered by the notion that PGMOL’s officials just can’t get any consistency in their decision making?
Stan Collymore believes there’s a really easy fix to the current hot potato topic.
“The issue of players kicking balls away or delaying set pieces is a really easy one to solve,” he told CaughtOffside for his exclusive column.
“Bring in a law or a rule that a player, when the referee has blown his whistle, is not allowed to touch the ball. No player is allowed to pick it up, to move it, to roll it… until the referee has blown the whistle a second time.
There’s a huge grey area at the moment that if the referee blows the whistle and the ball is dead, players are just trying to take up their position.
“It’s a habit that they’ve got into and been told to do by coaches and managers. ‘Go and stand on the ball, move the ball, kick the ball, stop the ball. Don’t retreat 10 yards…’
It will also stop the situation like that which happened to Kyle Walker during the Arsenal game.”
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