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Was watching Boca Juniors away to Newell's Old Boys last night in the quarter final second leg and noticed something very strange, the rules of South American football are so different than European football. If you open your mouth to the ref, straight yellow card and my word their ruthless there does be 7 or 8 bookings a game, when a free kick is been taken the ref puts down white tape 10 yards back and if the wall pass the tape free kick is re-taken, if the ref doesn't see a challenge when a player is obstructin his view he lets if off doesn't stop play even for an injury unless a head injury and last but not least something the south Americans are stereotyped for, there's almost zero free kicks from diving, if its looks like there's not contact the ref wont blow, even if a defender cleans an attacker out of it and the attacker gets over dramatic the ref lets the play go on its brilliant. Just thought id share

agree the rules should be similar in football to rugby where only the captains can talk with the referee. the refs should be shown a bit more respect.

as for diving though i think its good that we punish players for it. even if it means stopping the game. did they come back and give the player a booking for diving or did it go completely unpunished?

They get punished just like over here. One thing that was strange though and it might be on YouTube a Boca Player who was booked headed the ball on to the cross bar from a shot/cross and the ref sent him off second yellow for hand ball!? Replays showed he clearly headed it. There's no extra time either it goes straight to penalties.

Don't know, nah I think ET is important but I do agree that the Player/Referee system I'm England could improve