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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

The death of DOGSO - or the Kaiser's madness

DOGSO, arcane refereeing parlance for Denial of an Obvious Goal Scoring Opportunity, could become a thing of the past if Franz Beckenbauer and the FIFA committee he chairs gets its way.
Clubs and players have complained for a long time that the triple punishment of a player conceding a penalty, receiving a red card and then a suspension is too severe when an attacker is fouled while through on goal in the penalty area with no other defender nearby.
A FIFA task force led by the famous German player says "simple fouls", by which I assume they mean trips or shirt-pulling, would only be met with a yellow card, so that a penalty could still be awarded but the player would be spared the extra punishments. It seems pretty clear that it would be impossible to show a player a red card for a foul committed outside the box, so these DOGSO fouls would all become yellow card offences.
All sounds logical enough No? Well No it doesn't.
The moment this law change is introduced, any player through on goal will be hauled down, driving a tank through FIFA's responsibilities to protect the beauty of football. You can be sure that defenders would work out ways to ensure they weren't sent off. If one is booked, get another defender to mark the swift attacker and bring him down as well.
FIFA introduced this rule to try and stop defenders ruining football and their intention was good.
Defenders who bring down attackers who are entertaining the crowd and trying to score goals should face the severest of sanctions. To wit, a penalty, a red card and a suspension.

4 comments:

Lillevenn said...

tes test test

Anonymous said...

I have a feeling that you didn't understand the new proposal correctly.. red card for DOGSO OUTSIDE OF THE PENALTY AREA will still be applied. the change should concern only fouls inside the penalty area

Anonymous said...

My view has always been that by commiting DOGSO in the box your dont deny a chance, infact the penalty Kick actually becomes a chance!

Id like a Yellow for inside and a Pen but Red for outside.

paulvanb said...

Well, Beckenbauer was a defender, but the butchers need to be dealt with!