I think whenever a player is booked for dissent it should be made public what the comments said to the ref were. This wouldn’t be to try and belittle the ref and have moments of “I can’t believe he’s been booked for saying that”. It would be to highlight just how horrendously players treat refs. Furthermore, players would start to get concerned with their ‘brand’ and I imagine would be thinking twice in how they speak to refs. It doesn’t take a lip reading genius to see some of the abuse a ref will get and 9 times out of 10 the refs usually made the right decision too. I’d put a mic on the ref that isn’t broadcast during the game but, in moments of dissent, the audio would be used to show the public what was said. I think the reason we don’t have refs mic’d up is actually because of all the swearing the players use and how this could easily be broadcast.
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I think this is an unnecessary addition, we can already tell through body language and lip reading the nature of players’ complaints. The yellow card rule has only been truly implemented this season, we’re yet to see the effects of it but inevitably players will start to tone it down (at least imo).
I think players shouldn’t be booked for dissent when so many actual fouls don’t get booked because they’re not considered serious enough.
A booking heavily changes the dynamic of the game, like when Havertz came flying in with his boot up and in response the ref booked 3 Newcastle players for dissent, it’s gotten ridiculous.