Originally Posted by
Notts78
All of this may be true. However, assaults in the amateur game is rife. I am sure anyone who has played football at any sort of level will have stories they could share. I know I do. The worse one I witnessed resulted in 2 players serving prison time. There was an incident a fair few years ago in Chilwell where a player who had been sent off, fetched his van and tried to run the ref over.
There are clubs that still get away with ‘shenanigans’ in Nottinghamshire. It wouldn’t take much of a guess as to which areas these come from and what backgrounds.
Will points deductions fix these problems? I’m not convinced. I have played games with ringers, and a ringer and against ringers. No one ever gets asked for ID. Yet it does happen in youth football as each player has to register, provide ID and a recent photo to the FA. Why not in men’s football?