Rule changes in football

[Muttley]

I think the solution is two fold. Ideally much more respect for match officials from players, managers, media and pundits, as well as an acceptance that refs are human and make mistakes - plus of course an overhaul of the refereeing itself.

The overhaul that is required is to mandate that referees start following the laws of the game again. Nobody ever gave them permission to ignore them in the first place. I would find it so much easier to support referees if I saw them making a genuine effort to apply the laws.

Giving no yellow card in the 8th minute for a bookable offence and then giving a yellow in the 78th minute for the same thing is an example of the double standard we see. There is not a different set of laws for the first half and the second half.

It is the same with the video ref. No football stakeholder cares whether the ref made a "clear and obvious" error. They just want the laws of the game applied to the incident and the on-pitch ref given help to eventually make the right decision.