What did the Referee decide ?

[ForsolongaRover]

How about a rugby approach, players goes down, ref signals and physio comes on and play continues.

Goalkeeper goes down, on the restart Captain is removed for 1 minute. During the keepers so called treatment all players enter the centre circle and all coaching staff sit on bench.

Any head injury where play is stopped that player must go off for 2 minutes instantly and seek atten.

If the physio has to treat a clear head injury (blood, obvious collision), then that player is instantly substituted for 10 minutes, allowing full treatment off the field and full check. Once ready to resume it’s a straight swop back.

On corners, the referee should not intervene (doing their school teacher impressions) prior to the kick, the kick should take place and depending on the stramashes that take place a free kick or penalty should be awarded.

Some excellent suggestions there RIS. The drawback of the suggestion of medical assessors is that they are outsiders, vulnerable to criticism by fans and clubs; in fact I doubt whether the clubs would agree to a change of Law in that direction. I wonder if there is a genuine blood-related injury forcing the player off, whether it would square things up for the opposing team to withdraw a player for the same period. After all their team has almost always inflicted the injury

[drfchound]

Yes indeed re clock DW, and with feigned injuries IMHO it is a bit of both - also to stop momentum, get organised, maybe take on information passed on from manger to medical staff 

When the Wimbledon keeper went down “injured” on about 70 minutes in our match against them, just before he went down, Lewis walked up to him and said something which must have been like “go down”.
As he did so, Lewis signalled the rest of the team to gather around the manager for a team talk.

[drfchound]

I just saw this on FB:
I’m not sure this is the right thread but as it is something we often talk about, some might find it interesting.
Former English referee Mark Clattenburg proposed a change in soccer to eliminate player time wasting ❌ ⌚:

"Soccer is an entertainment sport, so we need as much playing time as possible. The first time I refereed in the Champions League, only 40 minutes of the 90 were actually played.
The two things I want to happen are that the referee has the power, instead of showing a yellow card to a player wasting time, to reverse the decision. If the player is instructed to take a throw-in and delays it, the throw should immediately go to the opposing team from that spot.
Often, players go to the sideline, bounce the ball, move it forward a long distance, wait for the referee to tell them to return to the original position, wait a little longer, are booked, and the referee writes down the sanction. Then, after about 10 more seconds, they take the throw-in. The player wins. They steal a minute doing that. Instead, if we had the option to reverse the sanction, without booking them, this wouldn’t happen.
The other idea is the same but for goal kicks and corner kicks. If the attacker delays on purpose, the sanction is reversed, and they lose the corner, which becomes a goal kick. If the goalkeeper does the same, they go from having defensive control to conceding a corner."