What would you change about the rules of football?

[East Level 2]

This is one that Gallagher keeps pushing.
35 minutes on the clock with a timekeeper,timer on the screen.

With the current low ball-in-play times it might be better to start with 30 minutes on the clock each half.
And also have a maximum time to take goal-kicks, free-kicks and corners.

 

[East Level 2]

Personally I'd scrap stoppage time. Clock stops when the ball goes out of play. Half ends once the game stops for a non-foul reason after the 45 mins is up.

Also, offside gets defined clearly as if the attacking team has a player in an offside position, it's offside regardless of whether they're involved.

Game currently lasts 95-100 minutes with average ball times of under 60 minutes so 90 minutes action is never going to happen.

 

[Gingers Dad]

Interesting idea from the bbc today
(couldn't find any reference to it on bluemoon)...

If you could change one rule or thing about football today what would it be?

Obviously, offside was heavily debated, like very marginal ones should be ignored,
and anthony taylor even suggesting that offside should be abolished altogether.

Have a read and have your say on here, fuck the bbc :)

Reinventing Football: Fans have their say on which laws should change

BBC Sport asked football fans to rip up the rulebook and suggest one change to the game. Here are the top five talking points from thousands of replies.

www.bbc.com

Can we change the rule that we have to debate the rules, everytime a big decision goes against Liverpool or Arsenal?

 

[KS55]

Offside rule. The WHOLE of one foot must be offside. Nothing else to count.
This would have the added benefit of stopping those endless VAR enquiries.
Throws in. No towels.

 

[JOGAMIGMOG]

1. Have another penalty spot on the 18 yard line. Take penalties from this spot which are for unintentional handball.
2. Award penalties for all handball in the area. (See point 1)
3. Bring back competitive drop-balls!
4. Play on when a player is injured. Allow treatment on the field like rugby league.
5. Domestic cups Premier League teams seeded and drawn away from home until Q. Final stages.
6. Bin the Charity Shield or play it abroad.
7. Promoted teams to the Premier League play first three games at home against 17th 16th and 15th placed teams from year before.

 

[brian the blue]

35 minute halves where the clock stops every time the ball goes dead.

 

[stevemacca]

This is one that Gallagher keeps pushing.
35 minutes on the clock with a timekeeper,timer on the screen.

What if clubs don't have a screen
What do you mean - they have to?

 

[.db.]

What if clubs don't have a screen
What do you mean - they have to?

Every PL stadium has a scoreboard with the game clock on it.

 

[give it to gordon]

I think most of the rules are fine its just the refs inability to enforce them.

Only the captain can talk to the ref so why doesnt the ref book the other players ?
No holding at corners, why does the ref blow before the corner ? Let the corners be taken then award a penalty or a free kick. Holding would soon stop.

Time wasting why does the ref wait till the 85th minute ?

I would like to see how the 4th official works out injury time.

I would like to see a method of parking the bus. Football is costly and fans shouldn't see a training match.

 

[tornandfrayed]

The 2 biggest issues for me are:

1) The handball. Penalties for unintentional handballs can be a lottery especially in the CL. We are penalising instinctive reactions which have little to do with football at the moment.

2) Corners. The bar has been raised so far now that wrestling, blocking, pushing the goalkeeper has been turned into an art form. Arsenal have pioneered this and now everyone is following. I hate this development but it's also really difficult to deal with. PGMOL should imo release guidance to clubs that they are going to lower the bar as to the physical contact that is acceptable.

No use of the hand or arm when marking a player at corners. Grabbing, shirt pulling, obstruction etc aren't permitted before a throw in why should corners be different?

 

[Gingers Dad]

Offside rule. The WHOLE of one foot must be offside. Nothing else to count.
This would have the added benefit of stopping those endless VAR enquiries.
Throws in. No towels.

Just give the job back to the Liner. At the moment they're doing ins and outs only.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

With the current low ball-in-play times it might be better to start with 30 minutes on the clock each half.
And also have a maximum time to take goal-kicks, free-kicks and corners.

A not too generous allocation of time to put the ball back in play and the second occasion where it's exceeded, whether it's in the first five minutes, ten minutes or first quarter there's a fuckin' yellow card for the time-wasting bastard even if it were someone else who was running down the clock the first time. Once yellow cards are awarded in the first quarter of a game it'd stop, same as awarding penalties for the Sumo wrestling bouts at corners.

 

[Le Havre Oswald]

No scousers allowed on commentary. In fact that law should be the law on any live television event. Ban them all.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Just give the job back to the Liner. At the moment they're doing ins and outs only.

And some of 'em aren't waiting till the whole of the ball is out. I spotted one at weekend from my eyrie in CBL3. The lino on the East Stand had the flag up with a slice of the ball still to cross the line. Clear as day!

 

[paulchapo]

Players not getting out of the penalty area once a penalty has been awarded. They are all checked by var now so they shouldn't still be in there crowding the ref and arguing, its annoying. Similarly the ref lecturing the keepers when a penalty is awarded or on penalty shootouts. They all know the rules by now is there any need?
Speeding up throw ins and corners. Teams are taking ages taking them.

 

[JPAMCR]

With the current low ball-in-play times it might be better to start with 30 minutes on the clock each half.
And also have a maximum time to take goal-kicks, free-kicks and corners.

And penalties. Should be allowed to take them after 30 seconds of it being awarded regardless of where the keeper is

 

[chris63]

More goals doesn't necessarily mean more exciting, any more than everybody shooting 65s on friendly resort courses makes golf more exciting.

I still think the keeper shouldn't be allowed of his area. :)

 

[youngbob]

1. Bin VAR off, because it turns out referees were right/wrong about the same amount anyway. All VAR has done is expose that the rules of football are full of grey areas which are hard to interpret objectively. VAR is after objectivity that literally cannot be achieved within the rules. No major decision in the history of football has ever been agreed upon by 100% of the people watching it, and it turns out referees were pretty good at getting them right most of the time without any assistance. We need to go back to how it was many years ago, when refereeing mistakes were just something you had to take on the chin. We became obsessed with referees and refereeing mistakes when Sky Sports started to point cameras at everything and zoom in as far as they could in order to pick up on "inconsistencies" and drive up storylines. TV companies created the "refereeing crisis" over the course of 30-40 years and now here we are: just as annoyed as we've always been when controversial decisions go against our team, no closer to finding the solution (because the solution doesn't exist), and facing a future without any referees at all. The only thing I'd maybe keep it for is off-the-ball incidents of violent conduct.

2. Keeping using the semi-auto technology for offsides, but move the line so that if any part of the striker's body is level with the defender then the striker is onside. I'm sick to death of strikers being given offside because they're leaning in the direction they're running. The most egregious example has to be Bamford's non-goal for Leeds against Palace a few years ago, when he was caught offside because he pointed to where he wanted the cross delivered. That should have been the moment to make the change, but they missed it. Other examples are Lukaku's goal in the League Cup final against Liverpool being chalked off because his shoulder was closer to the goal than Van Dijk's. Needlessly pedantic and, again, ignored the fact that football is full of grey areas and things that are open to interpretation, and that trying to argue that any one or two incidents can be absolutely objectively ruled on is a fool's errand.

3. There's no need for all this stoppage clock business, or reducing the lengths of each half to 35 mins. Just have the refs use a bit more power and common sense with timewasting. Start booking teams who take forever over set-pieces and dead balls, and start booking keepers for obvious timewasting on goal kicks in the first half instead of in the 88th minute. Plus, I could have sworn they banned towels on throw-ins years ago, and I could have sworn the 8-second rule was once a 6-second rule (it was just never enforced). A lot of this wishy-washy stuff with the amount of time a game of football takes - like the heaps of added time at the end of games, and this obsession over how long balls are actually in play for - has come about because referees don't enforce the rules properly when it comes to time-management during the 90 minutes. Players have far too much power and are allowed to get away with too much - and every single team does it, some just more than others.

4. Start penalising players who don't jump for 50/50 headers. I'm sick to the back teeth of watching players jump for a header, only to be punished by the referee because the opposition player they've challenged for the ball just stood still and fell over when they felt any contact from the jumping player. Kane was the absolute master at getting away with this - Fernandinho knew exactly how to respond to that kind of shithousery and it's a good thing VAR wasn't used for that sort of thing back then. Players have been, and will continue to be, hurt by that kind of tactic and it's frustrating that the FA (and other footballing bodies) have done virtually nothing to stop it.

 

[jamielowndes]

Game currently lasts 95-100 minutes with average ball times of under 60 minutes so 90 minutes action is never going to happen.

I'd take whatever the game adapts into than watching teams play 11 men behind the ball and Jordan Pickford taking 3 to 5 business days to take a goal kick.

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

Any player claiming a head injury, must leave the pitch and be examined by a doctor for a minimum of 5 minutes to ensure he's ok. No substitutes allowed during said 5 mins.

What if the injury is genuine AND caused by foul play. It gives the aggressor an unfair advantage.