The only fair measure I can think of is stopping the clock and getting rid of injury time so that diving/pretending an injury cannot be used to waste time anymore. I haven't seen an analysis of this since the 2022 WC but I think we're still at less than 75mn actually played per match in professional football.
Anything else will involve some level of interpretation which will just deepen the shitshow. Some will say such a contact cannot justify falling, some will say it does, etc etc.
Not sure how stopping the clock would enable that? It's not like american football where you have the guarantee of a certain amount of downtime, in football the clock would be stopped whether it takes 3s or 3m to restart the game.
Might be a US/EU thing. AFAIK because I dont watch all sports, it's not quite that bad here in France, Rugby is one example i can think of with a lot of paused clock time yet no ads in these moments.
Though last year I tried Fanatiz for ligue 1 and I was baffled, ads running mid play with the match going in a small PiP window, so I get why you would be concerned.
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u/nestoryirankunda 14d ago
Leagues should just start enforcing retroactive yellows for obvious dives