Ideas for making football more exciting like it used to be

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

Only 3 players allowed in a defensive wall and none of that lying on the ground behind the wall.

Get rid of the sweeper keeper(sorry Pep) - GK must remain in the 18 yard box. This would finally put an end to that high line shite and create far more space in midfield for the more creative teams.

Finally - make the goals bigger! A keeper over 6 ft used to be an exception - now they’re all giants! When football authorities first put crossbars on the posts in the 1870’s the goalies would have needed a ladder to reach it.

These are good points. Rugby tweaks its laws all the time to adapt to how tactics have changed and mostly spoiled the game. Football hasnt really changed since the backpass rule came in.

Personally I would change the offside rule back to the attacker gets the benefit of the doubt in close calls and get rid of this handball bollocks and go back to common sense with it. We all know whats deliberate handball or a handball thay changes the flow of a game or prevents a goal

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Have you been reading Bookie Thomas's autobiography MES?

:)

No idea who he is!

 

[VOOMER]

Would it not be more fun to go back to two points for a win, but no points for a draw, and a point lost for a defeat?

Get rid of VAR.

Let the ref, for all their faults, make the decisions.

Make shirt pulling a foul like it used to be, same as wresting defenders to the ground in dead ball situations.

Just thinking out loud, and I didn’t even mention banning Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher from the media.

Any other ideas?

Bank any further clubs being more than10% owned by yanks.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Only 3 players allowed in a defensive wall and none of that lying on the ground behind the wall.

Never understood the lying on the ground bit. In all my 61 years I've only seen a goal scored from kicking the ball under the wall twice!

 

[Psychedelic Casual]

I’m completely used to VAR now and I despised it at first.
It still needs using much better but I’m fine with it.

One thing I’d do is bring in a countdown clock for set pieces like in rugby league. If the hooter sounds before the set piece is taken:
-Goal kick becomes a corner to the opposition
-Corner becomes a goal kick to the opposition
-Free kick becomes a free kick from the same place to the opposition

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

I’m completely used to VAR now and I despised it at first.
It still needs using much better but I’m fine with it.

One thing I’d do is bring in a countdown clock for set pieces like in rugby league.

Agree totally. VAR has many faults but it doesnt change the way the game is played.

 

[mexico1970]

No idea who he is!

This fella Clive Thomas, to say he was strict would be an understatement.

Clive Thomas and “the most controversial decision that any referee has ever made” - Footy Analyst

Back in 1981, Tottenham and Wolverhampton Wanderers played an FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough. It was a game that I happened to be present at – my wife’s family all being dedicated Wolves fans. Late on in the game, Spurs looked to be on the way to Wembley, having been given the lead for a […]

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[Blue Tooth]

Jumpers for goalposts!

 

[Donmcfc]

Only 3 players allowed in a defensive wall and none of that lying on the ground behind the wall.

Get rid of the sweeper keeper(sorry Pep) - GK must remain in the 18 yard box. This would finally put an end to that high line shite and create far more space in midfield for the more creative teams.

Finally - make the goals bigger! A keeper over 6 ft used to be an exception - now they’re all giants! When football authorities first put crossbars on the posts in the 1870’s the goalies would have needed a ladder to reach it.

Don't allow goal keepers above the height of 5'11" so we don't have to have bigger goals.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

This fella Clive Thomas, to say he was strict would be an understatement.

Clive Thomas and “the most controversial decision that any referee has ever made” - Footy Analyst

Back in 1981, Tottenham and Wolverhampton Wanderers played an FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough. It was a game that I happened to be present at – my wife’s family all being dedicated Wolves fans. Late on in the game, Spurs looked to be on the way to Wembley, having been given the lead for a […]

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Oh Clive ''The Book'' Thomas