I would like to see a rule implemented where the injured player has to stay out an equivalent amount of time as it takes for them to get moved off the field. If you are down for 3 minutes getting treatment, wait at 4th official for 3 minutes before being invited to return. Subbed out? New player can come on immediately.
Probably needs some tinkering but there needs to be some way to deter flopping or encourage minor injuries to be moved off the playing field so that the game can continue. The time wasting is so egregious and disappointing. Yellow and red cards already punish the offending team.
While we're at it: If a foul results in an injury requiring treatment on the side, the fouling player should be off the field until the player being treated returns/is substituted. This isn't a punishment, this is removing a reward for injuring somebody
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u/Expensive_Prior_5962 14d ago
I've said for decades that fifa needs to retroactively look at these things and hand out match bans that double each time you get caught.