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Faking head injury so the ref has to blow… that should be punished somehow
Force a sub. Any hint of a head injury, don't take any risks. Can't be fuckin about with concussions, so any head injuries are a mandatory sub. Faking it will stop pretty soon.
Then people with real concussion will play on instead of getting treatment, unless you force them to be subbed, which will lead people to try get opponents to be forcefully subbed.
Sadly true
Sadio Mane should have been subbed in the last AFCON (iirc or maybe WC quals?) but they made him keep playing until he scored a goal and then promptly sat down and clearly had no idea where he was.
Either their head is hurt or not. If they go down after contact to the head legitimately, they shouldn't play on. If they go down rolling feigning a head injury, they shouldn't play on.
So if players try to get opposition subbed, they either deliberately cause a head injury (ban them) or they don't make contact...in which case the player on the receiving end wouldn't/shouldn't go down rolling as if they did.
You can get a blow to the head which hurts like hell for a few seconds without having a concussion/serious injury.
When is the last time you saw a football player "legitimately hurt" that didn't roll around the pitch?
Maybe, but why take the risk?
Alternative, have them leave the pitch for 5 mins to get quickly checked out by a doctor, fast concussion check to see if they're all there, and if all good they carry on. Team can choose to sub if they dont want to play a man down for a few minutes.
.. Ianis Hagi had a real head injury in the fifth minute of this game, he played with a condom on for 60 more minutes.