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> Anyone faking an injury on my pitch used to get a red card for conduct detrimental to the game.

Sorry, this is flat-out dangerous.

You are not 100% certain who is really injured and who is not faking, and you are incentivising players who may not be sure whether or not they are injured to play on.

I agree with your other 9 points, though.

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You are correct. I was incentivising players who may not be sure whether or not they are injured to play on. Serious injuries (i.e. more than a sprain) at the amateur level are vanishingly rare.

If you want to overcome the "sport for pussies" stigma that American Football players love to attach to soccer, there's got to be some tough love, at least in the USA.

Re "sport for pussies", my impression of watching American sports is "sport for lawyers". The rules and play of the game reflect the litigiousness of American society in general, with the rules (I'm thinking football here) being really complicated, having all kinds of weird exceptions, and then challenges that are like little "trials" where you have to review evidence etc. It makes it totally unenjoyable for me.

Serious injuries (i.e. more than a sprain) at the amateur level are vanishingly rare.

Not exactly vanishingly. My over-30 team used to lose several people per season to knee injuries.

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