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Rule changes in football

Robbo said:
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.
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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.
 
I wonder how long it takes for a team to intentionally concede a corner hoping to draw the opposition up the pitch.
 
Kandi1977 said:
When was the last time you saw an indirect fk given for a goalkeeper holding on to the ball for too long?
They've forgotten the rule existed, so made a "new" one.
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lol - are you saying that referees have one job to do and that is to enforce the laws of the game to make the entire system work?

I thought they were just allowed to make it up as they go along nowadays.
 
Muttley said:
lol - are you saying that referees have one job to do and that is to enforce the laws of the game to make the entire system work?

I thought they were just allowed to make it up as they go along nowadays.
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Same as what VAR does then although it takes them a lot longer to do so.
 
So... there's already a 6s rule, and they're changing it to an 8s rule and will actually try to enforce it.
So we'll see Maddison counting off the seconds with his fingers and shouting at the ref, at which point the ref will book Maddison.

Also, keepers will just go down in instalments and roll around and feign injury etc. as that seems impossible to police.
 
What I don't get is it will be 8 secs and the refs will hold their hands up as a warning with 5 secs left... so... Does that mean when a keeper catches and falls to the floor then the ref will be straight on their case after 3 secs, because at the minute keepers lay there for a good 10 secs before they even stand up! I find it hard to believe the keepers will be getting rushed to stand up and get rid that quickly.
 
time wasting has always been part of football, and always will be

smart people will always manipulate the laws to their advantage
 
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