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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 1759672, member: 780"] I think you missed his point. He wanted to penalize floppers by requiring them to come out of the game for two minutes. It makes my point about how Americans would want to change a lot about soccer to bring in in alignment with their tastes. I can hear the calls for Instant Replays on all sorts of plays now and challenge flags to boot. The problem is that the US market is not going to drive the rest of the world to change the game as many Americans assume. We Americans would have to deal with the frustrations and we aren't very good at that. I marvel at the imprecision of soccer games after being conditioned to the precision of US games. But at least they don't stop play for five minutes while they "check with New York" while New York goes through the tape frame-by-frame to see if the runner's hand touches the base before the tag is applied. [/QUOTE]