REF·CARD
Bookings · 2023-24 – 2025-26
After the clampdown

Time wasting fell and stayed down.
Dissent didn’t move.

The 2023-24 instruction told referees to caution both. Share of cautions with a recorded reason, each season.
Dissent18.5%Time wasting7.8%2023-242024-252025-26SHADED: 95% RANGE
Time wasting
10.9% → 7.8%
z 2.93 · p 0.003 — the fall holds.
Dissent
19.6% → 18.5%
z 0.73 · p 0.47 — indistinguishable.

Not why. A census records what happened.

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