Easy Changes to Improve the game.

dublinblue12 said:
Triangle shaped goals and penalty circles instead of Penalty box. Make the balls 3 times bigger. Get rid of any club that plays in a red home kit
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And fill them with Helium so that goalies and thrower inners won't be able to waste time they will be allowed to kick the ball as high as they want and it takes twenty minutes to come down again. It's a good idea 'cos there'll be no need to play a 'back seven' any more!
 
mosssideblue said:
Can you imagine listening to half the refs blowing out of their arses, panting like fuck trying to discuss things
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True, the amount of times you see em taking a break themselves after a decision is incredible, it’s what the white spray was brought in for! People talk about shithousery time wasters feigning injury as the biggest culprits, but referees often slow the game down to a crawl (see Saturday) imagine if that happened in the Villa game last season in between one of our goals, no title
 
Should be much stronger on swarming the ref. Its ridiculous that it's an automatic yellow for being a bit annoyed and bouncing the ball angrily (which I think is a much healthier release of anger than verbally abusing the ref), but half the team can surround the ref and nothing happens. Probably unrealistic to give out mass bookings and red cards during the match, so I think should be a citing system. If the ref feels they cross a line, anyone he cites can get retrospective punishment, from a warning to yellows or reds.
 
Rather than a player having to be in line, or behind a defender to be stay on-side, there should need to be a gap/space between them to be off-side....so as long as there is an over-lap when VAR draw their lines, they remain on-side

Kind of hard to explain...but the attacking player must be completely passed the defender to be offside

I know what i mean anyway :-)
 
the best and easy way to improve football would be to stop pundits, guest, know it alls, 2 hours before and after the game loaded with stats and bollocks ? far too many people make a very good living out of knowing fuck all about the game because they were an ex football player ?

also another improvement would be bringing back standing in all the lower levels
 
Media trained referees doing post-match interviews, I'm alright ta. We know what referees are thinking, we just disagree sometimes because decisions go against us or because most of us don't know the nuances of the laws.
 
AlexWilliamsGloves said:
Rather than a player having to be in line, or behind a defender to be stay on-side, there should need to be a gap/space between them to be off-side....so as long as there is an over-lap when VAR draw their lines, they remain on-side

Kind of hard to explain...but the attacking player must be completely passed the defender to be offside

I know what i mean anyway :-)
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I have spent many an hour thinking about the offside laws, most of my ideas are crazy like scrapping it all together or zones like 40 yards from the goal or if he was facing the goal ? I know crazy

but this one idea makes it more crazy than the others ? if the defender touches you when you're in on goal
 
Only award half a point for a no score draw
Get an extra half a point for scoring 4 or more than your opponent.
If a cup game requires a winner after 90 minutes, take off 1 player from each side every 5 minutes until there is a winner.
Heated seats and free Bovril in winter.
 
pee dubya said:
You do when there's a wall being set up etc and the ref points to his whistle. Should just let them get on with it if they want.
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They can get on with it before that. They’ll always be time to take a quick one before he indicates that.
 
Gone for a Burton said:
Referees to do post match interviews.
Referees to be ‘ miked up ‘ so fans can hear what is being discussed and why.
Captains only to speak to referees.
Captains allowed 1 ‘Review Call’ each half
Injured players requiring treatment don’t have to leave the pitch.
Digital clock to record time wasting, injury time, substitutions and ‘ ball out of play ‘ time. 15 minute sin bin for Orange Card offences.....ie diving, disputing decisions.

All in here for other ideas.
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The first three I agree but the rest no thanks
 
1. Microphone all officials up, including VAR, any decisions that have to be discussed can be heard over the stadium PA system

2. Have VAR replays shown on the screen (if you haven’t got a screen, tough shit)

3i. Have an independent timer other than the referee and make each half 35 minutes with the clock stopping every time the ball goes out of play (even 35 minutes each-way is 10 more minutes per game than the games with the most amount of ball-in-play now where BIP for most football games under an hour)
or;
3ii. Have a countdown clock for all goal kicks, corners, throw-ins and free kicks… if the hooter sounds because a team has not restarted play in-time, it’s an indirect free kick to the other team where the incident has taken place and a yellow card to the player who was taking it

4. Anyone who wastes time in any manner is automatically booked the second time they do it (after the first time being warned), even if it’s in the third minute of the game… anyone who wastes time after already being booked for it is warned again, and if they do it for a fourth time they’re sent off

5. Anyone caught blatantly diving or getting up and running off within seconds of rolling around like they’ve stood on a landmine is sent off immediately, even if it’s missed by the officials they still get a retrospective one game ban… caught again in a subsequent game it’s a two game ban… a third time a three game ban

6. Stop waving ‘Play-on’ when someone is fouled and the ball ends up going backwards and there is no advantage, there is only an advantage if they are advancing directly towards goal

7. If someone goes down injured, they must leave the field for three minutes and the team is down to ten men. If it’s a head injury they must leave the field for a Head Injury Assessment (which in rugby is 15 minutes) and you have to use up a substitute to replace them (who can be taken off again if they pass the HIA)

8. Anyone swearing at the officials is sent off immediately

9. All clubs must put aside 25% of their season tickets as cheap tickets

10. Ban the sale of half’n’half scarves at football stadiums

11. Ban musical instruments in football stadiums

12. Do not expand the Champions League

13. Never allow a Winter World Cup to go ahead ever again

14. Align all continental international tournaments (Euros, Copa, ACON) to the same years and make Africa have theirs in the Summer (if the Americas can, so can they)

15. Find a way to even up League standards across Europe so that leagues like Poland (and others like it) have a strong representative in the CL.
 
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ridderz said:
A smaller change - I've always said that one change I'd make is to get rid of offsides when a team gets a free kick.

A much bigger change - I'd genuinely go towards a 'stop the clock' method when the ball goes out of play. The ball couldn't have been in play for more than 60 mins total against Everton. Though not sure how it would practically work with TV, Police, Transport all becoming a bit of a bigger issue as games could last longer...
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60 minutes ball-in-play is the well over the average.

Games like City v Everton I reckon will be under 45 minutes BIP. 45 minutes for a £60 game of football. Everton should be made to refund us half our ticket money, should come out of Lampard’s salary the boring wanker.

(scroll down to see the BIP stats)

Look at some of these from last season:
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Everton feature four times (Villa too, and that’s media golden boys Lampard and Gerrard, the boring cunts)

The BIP in football is just about the worst thing about the sport.
 
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Def ‘Multi-Ball’ for added on time and extra time. Can you imagine how glorious it would be watching Maguire defending 2 or 3 balls on the pitch at the same time!
 
pee dubya said:
But they're usually forced not to by the defending team blocking the quick free kick. Should just be allowed to take it whenever you want.
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Well that’s a case of an existing law not being enforced. No need for a new law to change that, just instruct referees to start applying the current one.

There was a little spate, must be 15 years ago now, of players deliberately kicking the ball against someone trying to stop a quick free quick and the referee was booking them, as he must.

But the outcry from all the pundits was that the attacker was being unsporting for getting someone booked. Not a squeak that the defender was breaking the laws of the game being there in the first place.
 
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