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It was mentioned before. This is the basis for corruption when your law says something but you instruct your law enforcers to do something else. Especially if you give preferential treatment to the stars of the game and not others. If you want things done differently, change the law. If you want them done differently at national level or higher only, say it in your law. It already says somethings are different at higher levels, why don't they change the law to put higher level of dissent or other yellow cards to be allowed in FIFA level? Because they know its wrong. In fact this 'instruction' is not documented anywhere at all for the same reason, it is wrong.
Yeap, no one wants to see Ronaldo miss a game in the world cup, but no one wants to see the ugly side of football (highly visible dissent, diving, time wasting, professional fouls...) either.
Its a downward spiral, allow it without punishment, it will happen more because it is not punished. Bite the bullet and punish it consistently for a while, they will learn and stop doing it. It will be pain in the short term but you will see the benefits in the long run.
Look at how well the long term ban worked on chum chum Suarez. I can think of at least two incidents last night when he just walked away from a confrontation. He has learnt his lesson.
One last thing. I wouldn't say they are the owners of the game. They are the custodians of it which brings about a much bigger responsibility of protecting it.
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