Just in case you got luckyOooh hark at marathon man!
I was thinking the same as I typed but thought it too early in the morning!
Unfortunately it would end up like American football , a 90 minutes match would probably take well over 2 hours.
Once the direction of a set piece has been given only that team can touch the ball.
1 - dont stop the game for substitutions or injuries, rugby style
2 - Immediate booking for any form of dissent
3 - Immediate booking for timewasting - yes even if it is in the first 30 minutes!
4 - booking if you pick the ball up or kick it away when its the other teams set piece
5 - If the players offside, just go back to putting the flag straight up, no more of this waiting to see what happens
None of the above will happen obviously but would be nice!
With the quadrant thing I did enjoy the stand screaming in protest at what was legal placement by the Huddersfield player just because of the shit-eating grin on the referee coming over and giving it the ok, he was having the time of his life there.
I think the entire policy on "professional fouls" and "dangerous play" is completely arse-about-face.
A slightly late, but genuine attempt at a tackle, can easily get you a straight red.
However, diving/feigning injury, and my pet-hate "taking a booking for the team" are whats ruining football...
To pick a recent example, in the Liverpool Everton match, Everton broke away down the left, and Trent Arnold just came over and deliberately wiped out the Everton attacker.... took the yellow card, and everyone said "well done, took one for the team"
Bollocks.... its a deliberate foul, a "professional foul" if you will... blatant cheating. Never gets called out by commentators or pundits, who won't ever say anything to damage brand football.
Until football looks upon clear cheating like other sports, as unacceptable, rather than as "part of the game" then things will never improve.
While i'm on one, i'd also chuck VAR in the bin as well.
the game would be quite boring if you weren't allowed to kick itKicking the ball away definitely should be on the list.
Jeez, I'd only get to see two minutes of every game before I had to get out!Mine are for fans:
1. if you have a half and half scarf, get out
2. If you shout “shoot” when a city player picks up the ball 40 yards out, get out
3. If you shout “offside” direct from a throw-in, again, get out!
N° 5 is actually the officials time wasting1 - dont stop the game for substitutions or injuries, rugby style
2 - Immediate booking for any form of dissent
3 - Immediate booking for timewasting - yes even if it is in the first 30 minutes!
4 - booking if you pick the ball up or kick it away when its the other teams set piece
5 - If the players offside, just go back to putting the flag straight up, no more of this waiting to see what happens
None of the above will happen obviously but would be nice!
Ball is only in play for about an hour in any given game, so stopped clock for an hour long game would be fine.6- The ball is in play for a full 90 minutes
I wouldn't be surprised if few players could actually play for the full 90 minutes.Ball is only in play for about an hour in any given game, so stopped clock for an hour long game would be fine.
it Is really annoying.Goal kicks to be taken quickly and from the side the ball goes out, of all the usual timewasting techniques one of the most annoying is the keeper slowly sauntering across the other side of the goal to set the ball down.
Once play is stopped and the ref acknowledges a sub is being made, he blows his whistle, points to the player in question and points for him leave the field. If he fails to exit within 10 seconds, the player coming on gets a yellow card and the 4th official automatically adds a minute to account for the booking and time wasting.This is similar to something i've thought about :-
After the sub board goes up, however long it takes the player to come off...the sub has to wait that same amount of time before he's allowed to come on...that will soon have the timewasting bastards sprinting off the pitch.
And the ball gets delivered to the ref in a remote control clown car that blows up when he bends down to pick it upReferees to wear clown make up, curly wigs, red noses and big shoes
Statistically more successful than regular corners. I've never understood the groan that goes up when any team take a short corner.No short corners
Pretty sure that rule already exists. Just never applied consistently.There should be a new rule to give a free kick for pulling an opponents shirt
Agree entirely. Lots of the complaints people have are already written into the laws but never applied. Then when they are they complain about it ruining the game and "if you send people off for that there'll be about 6 players left by the end". Well if you actually applied the laws consistently the players would soon start abiding by them because the reason they don't now is because they know there's a good chance they'll get a way with it. It ain't rocket science.I'd start by insisting that refs robustly enforce the rules we've already got.
Dissent by word or action at either the ref, the lino, or the fourth official, is a caution.
If a bunch of players surround the ref, he cards them all. Touching the ref or any other official, red card.
I'd tweak the rules (if required) so that fouling a player making a clean break, a.k.a "taking one for the team", red card.
Time wasting in any of its millions of forms, caution. Kicking the ball away or not retreating ten yards immediately, caution.
If refs start enforcing all this properly, players will quickly fall in line, it works in other sports.
For player safety, and also to stop shit-housing, any head injury to require a temporary substitution and an assessment by a neutral doctor on fitness to return. Proper concussion protocols on return to play in subsequent matches, rugby is miles ahead of football on this I'm afraid.
Last but not least, offside is offside. Nice and simple and not subjective. If you're not interfering with play then what the hell are you doing on the pitch!? (As Brian Clough said, apparently).
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