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Albion defend a corner. Opposition player attacks the inswinging delivery and piles into Dunk who goes down due to head impact. Dunk goes off for five minutes under your protocol. In that five minutes, the opposition win another corner, sling it in and, without Dunk there to defend it, nod...

It really won't. Refs are not medical professionals and are in no position to assess whether a head injury is "serious enough to have warranted stopping play". Beyond that, the whole point of stopping the game is so a player can be assessed. Just because a player is fit to resume play, it does...

Exactly. All solutions to the problem of pretend head injuries that involve mandatory time out and/or a temporary substitution for the injured player (or the "injured" player) have potentially negative consequences for a side that suffers a legitimate head injury through absolutely no fault of...