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       Shinpads
   DIR By: Referee99
       Date: March 25, 2021, 4:11 pm
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       Honestly... what’s the point??
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       Re: Shinpads
   DIR By: Ref Watcher
       Date: March 26, 2021, 5:31 am
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       Law 2: shinguards – these must be made of a suitable material to
       provide reasonable protection and covered by the socks
       Not the best-defined Law in the book.  Which referee is going to
       make their own life difficult by putting the back up of a player
       and their team mates by taking a firm stance on this before a
       game.
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       Re: Shinpads
   DIR By: Alex04
       Date: March 26, 2021, 7:45 am
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       Re: Shinpads
   DIR By: bmb
       Date: March 26, 2021, 9:35 am
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       I have to say I would have very little sympathy if he ended up
       with a broken leg or bad stud marks the whole way down his
       shins. Football is his livelihood, shin pads are for his
       protection to try and minimise damage in the event of a kick to
       the shin. Why would a player not do everything possible to
       protect themselves? Just seems so stupid to me.
       #Post#: 28988--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Shinpads
   DIR By: ARF
       Date: March 26, 2021, 10:09 am
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       They may as well take the requirement for wearing shinpads out
       of the LotG - a lot of players clearly don't care anyway!
       #Post#: 28990--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Shinpads
   DIR By: Ref Watcher
       Date: March 26, 2021, 11:19 am
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       Cricket in this country has gone down the route of requiring all
       batsmen to wear helmets and for those helmets to be of a certain
       standard.  The shinguard law, if it is to exist, should demand
       that they meet a particular kitemark-type standard.
       #Post#: 28995--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Shinpads
   DIR By: rustyref
       Date: March 26, 2021, 1:28 pm
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       Problem is, who enforces that?  Cricket helmets and pads are on
       the outside of kit so east to see, can't really see it being
       viable that referees ask players to pull down their socks so
       that they can check for a kite mark on their shin pads.
       I agree it is a problem, but my view is it is a player choice.
       As long as they have pads of some kind on, if they are stupid
       enough to risk their careers by wearing tiny ones that is their
       choice.
       #Post#: 29008--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Shinpads
   DIR By: Jevontheref
       Date: March 26, 2021, 4:50 pm
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       By the size of the shape it looks like he is using Nokia 3310's.
       So In any terms he is Indestructible as it will cause more
       damage to the opponent rather than himself.
       #Post#: 29020--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Shinpads
   DIR By: exile
       Date: March 27, 2021, 9:48 am
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       --- Quote from: Jevontheref link ---
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       > By the size of the shape it looks like he is using Nokia
       3310's.
       >
       > So In any terms he is Indestructible as it will cause more
       damage to the opponent rather than himself.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       They're custard creams according to him on his twitter account.
       I'm glad he sees it as a joke, I just wonder if he still will if
       he sustains a serious injury because of them one day.
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       Re: Shinpads
   DIR By: Scally Bob
       Date: March 28, 2021, 8:50 am
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       No doubt when grassroots football restarts there will be players
       copying this. Something to look forward to.
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