Football
If you dive, you are banned for two matches with no pay. Regardless of whether or not you're penalised by the referee. Every single time. I don't care if it's the world cup final and you're the only goalkeeper.

I guarentee that this would fix 95% of the problems with the game.
( MatJ LOOK, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 17:14, 6 replies)

Just introduce some rules already present in Rugby:
1. Only the team captain is allowed to directly address the referee.
2. Any backchat - yellow card
3. Any yellow card offence - 10 minutes in the sin bin.
4. Referees miked up - any audible swearing picked up on the mikes - yellow card, sin bin. The crowd and audience at home can then hear the justification for refereeing decisions. They may not agree, but at least they know what it is.
5. Any televised game has a TMO who can award or disallow goals, penalties and free kicks based on anything he or she sees on any of the monitors. The ref MUST refer to the TMO if he or she did not personally witness, from an appropriate angle, the score or offence.

It wouldn't be perfect, but would be better.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 17:59, closed)

Totally agree
they should check the replays and punish the divers and actors. Spot on, sir! *click*
( NooShmoo It's a fantazmagorical pile of ultra bollocks, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 18:26, closed)

Frankly if the review panel actually did its job this would happen a bit more
But every club and every player appeals everything so the process falls apart. I would love to give cards out for those players that fail to look at the ref when being addressed or shake their head at him or worst of all wag their finger as if to suggest that he has got it wrong but that they deign to accept his opinion because they are better than him.

The first few games would see a few abandonments through lack of players but after that it would get better.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 22 Sep 2011, 18:29, closed)

Just replace the grass with sand-paper. They'll make a bloody good effort to stay upright then.
(The_Mighty_Spleen, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 20:26, closed)

When a player is booked
Make them play their next match in women's clothes: high heels, flowery dress from Laura Ashley and matching hat.
(lolwhites, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 21:10, closed)

And your team has a point deducted
Then your team mates hate you too.
( His Popiness the Hole Invaded Poland on, Wed 28 Sep 2011, 22:10, closed)