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No. :shrug:

We all saw what a head injury looks like on MOTD last night. Azpilicueta wasn't thrashing around clutching his face. Forget your 1% - it wouldn't be that many anyway - I would have been more specific and said 99.999% if I'd known you were gong to come in nit-picking! Besides, within weeks of...

Azpilicueta had a head injury today - everybody knew it and play stopped instantly, pretty much wthout the need for any action from the referee. Hint, then, for referees - if it's a head imjury, it's pretty obvious. If the player is clutching his face with his hands, rolling over and screaming...

So long as there is a sanction involved.

.............but not as a 'concussion sub' then, just using up one of their ordinary subs.

Yes, but not until 5 minutes (5 minutes of playing with 10 men) are up. That is the (very necessary) disincentive.

That renders it pointless. It has to be 5 minutes off the pitch before the player comes back on, or before the concussion protocol comes into effect.