Got to admit, the AI pushing my players to the floor and getting away with murder, then the ref giving them a free kick because my player's shirt brushed against the other player's shirt, is really starting to fuck me off.
I said it a while ago now but it seems like the game is still programmed like: when the AI sets out to foul you (with a bad slide tackle), it's a foul, but when something unexpected happens and they bundle your player off the ball, it's not a foul, because the referee isn't "switched on" outside of those binary "foul incoming" situations.
Love the game, though, really do. I've come back to it after a few days of FIFA and it's such a breath of fresh air. I only wish that refs were better and that response times when you're trying to dribble were a little bit sharper (I'm back to playing on -1 speed though, 0 was too end-to-end).