Q: Surely, they can design more protective shoes and shin and ankle guards that would prevent, or at least mitigate, this melodrama without obscuring the illegal contact that prompts the referee’s whistle. A: You would think. Anyway, only two times a match is a player carried off on a stretcher to attempt to lend credibility to his professed injury. Given the relentless TV close-ups of player’s grimacing and agonized expressions, there is talk of changing FIFA’s logo to a stylized image of Edvard Munch’s The Scream.