Field player as goalkeeper

[geego]

They have fancy overhead speakers for referees.
They have LED screens to show the injury time.
They give the refs special coins for the toss up.
They control exactly how many subs can warm up at a time.
They have shirts and balls with the place and date of the match.
They even have a 5th official for the eventuality of an AR having an injury...

...and the question is:

Why in the world, everytime a goalkeeper gets sent off with no remaining subs, they have to go with the creepy routine of making him take off his shirt and have a field player wear:
- a second shirt on top of his current one (even if it's hot)
- the size of the 'keeper (usually too broad for the field player)
- which is soaked with sweat of the 'keeper
- inside out
- with no number on display
- making the keeper leave the field showing off his sexy nude torso (or undershirt)

I can't understand how in the world they still don't have spare goalkeeper kits in case a field player needs one. Heck, it's a more frequent situation than the need for a 5th official to replace an assistant. :rolleyes:

[ChelseaForTheCup(s)]

I don't think players give a crap.

[bspsoccer]

I don't think players give a crap.

wow, i actually completely agree with CFTC...

[johno]

Part of the reason is that most teams don't have a standard player who will take the place of an injured/sent off gk if all subs have been made. It depends on the match situation and who is on the pitch and how they feel.

Also, although it happens often if you are a fan watching several different teams, it doesn't happen often otherwise. It might happen to a club once in ten years, you expect them to have a contingency plan for that?

[geego]

Also, although it happens often if you are a fan watching several different teams, it doesn't happen often otherwise. It might happen to a club once in ten years, you expect them to have a contingency plan for that?

They have contingency plans for weirder situations, that's why I find it strange. If the assistant's flag breaks off they don't play until proper replacement (instead of doing with a napkin). If a player's shirt tears off they tell him to stay out of play, maybe they stop play, too, until proper replacement.

I agree with #2 and #3 that it's not really an important thing (if it was, it would have been solved decades ago), but I find it really creepy anyway, specially knowing that, even if once every ten years, it will happen someday.

[ChelseaForTheCup(s)]

wow, i actually completely agree with CFTC...

Hehe, surprising eh? ;)

You have a valid point OP, but there always is plan B.

Players could be more badass like John Terry and just take their shirt off completely.

[Gary V]

Because back when that field player last played keeper, in U11, that's the way they did it?