KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Incitement-a straight red card!

Hi all,

I was just thinking after the whole story with Rio that any players found inciting the crowd should be given a straight red card. I am not even sure Rio did that yesterday, as a matter of fact, I am pretty sure he didn't but nevertheless. We have seen it on numerous occasions. We saw it with Luis and the middle finger, with Danny Rose against Serbia, also the middle finger etc etc. Many players go and celebrate infront of opposing fans just to rub them up a bit.

In my opinion, incidents such as this should be punished with a straight red card, that would surely bring an end to it. Fans are passionate people and when emotions come into play they sometimes do stupid things. This is however not an excuse for certain incidents, but surely the number of incidents would be lower if inciting by players was brought to a halt. Straight red, and then let's see them do it again....

What are your thoughts?

I agree. I know I motions run wild in derby matches and all that but it needs to be clamped down on. It's much worse than taking your shirt off when celebrating a goal and that's a yellow.

I wonder where the hell that rule came from anyway. WHy the hell do you get a yellow card if you take your shirt off? I see no harm being done by removing your shirt....

no i would not like to see this. Its part of football do we really want all players to be like robots? what rio did even running to away fans did not justify throwing coins or the idiot running onto the pitch. Take emotion out of the game and you have nothing.

Me neither.

Might actually encourage the female part of the crowd into doing the same thing, which would be nice!

I heard some goon on the radio saying that players should only celebrate in front of their own fans!!
Any fan that thinks it is acceptable to go berserk if an opposition player celebrates in front of you has serious mental health issues.

I am not saying it is ok, far from it, i even state in the original post that it is no excuse for such behaviour. However you cannot dispute the fact that there would be fewer incidents if players stopped inciting fans...

there is a difference in some celebrations in that some are meant to genuinely rile up the fans. Take Adebayor for example who sprinted the length of the pitch to celebrate in front of the Arsenal fans. That was hardly a good idea and there will always be a minority of fans who will react to such provocation and there is always the danger of trouble in those cases where it is needless

or Suarez delibrately diving in front of David Moyes...

Didn't realise David Moyes was simply a spectator? Yet another pointless pop at Suarez and you wonder why people think you're a troll