Rumors are that Wenger’s offsides rule will go into effect in the next year. The rule is basically that the offsides line will now be dependent on the last body part being in line with a defender rather than the first body part being past the defender. I personally think this will result in teams parking the bus so that they limit the speed aspect of the forwards. It will be so much more difficult to pull and offsides trap with this rule set. I also think VAR will butcher this for the next few seasons.
So anyways, what rule would you implement or remove if you had the options to? I have two:
Throws-ins: don’t require one foot to be on the ground or the ball to go cleanly behind the head. Two hands on the ball and throw it in, however. you want, that’s it. Granny style? Go for it.
PK’s: Have the players line up ten yards behind the 18 and once the whistle is blown they can go after the ball. This would illuminate the weird runs up to the ball or the final jump kick, which is almost a cheat code against goalies. I’m a united fan so this would of course impact Bruno but I think think it makes sense. The attacker still has the advantage being that it’s a PK but also adds a bit of extra pressure. Shootouts would be so much more involved.
What rule changes can you think of?
Throw in can be 1 handed. Unlimited substitution.
Red card for scissor tackles. Yellow card for shirt pulling.
Financial cheating teams put in the bin is the only rule I want… offside is fine
Should be a straightforward one that I think is absurd that it isn’t implemented. Current penalty shoot-out format gives a MASSIVE advantage to the team that kicks first. Historically, across many hundreds of shoot-outs the team that kicks first wins 60% of the time and the team that kicks second only wins 40% of the time. This is a huge discrepancy for deciding tournament champions based on a literal coin flip.
In a penalty shoot-out, instead of alternating each kick, after the first kick each team should take two in a row similar to serving a tiebreak in tennis.
So instead of: ABABABAB
You use: ABBAABBAAB
This would be a much fairer format. Both teams have the situation where you need to score to stay alive. These are higher pressure spots that lead to lower conversion rates, which currently team B solely has to face.
10 min sin bin for yellow cards and automatic off pitch review to see if it is a red like rugby. FUlly mic’d officials and VAR reviews on the field big screen not the small side monitor. So much in rugby is well done in comparison.
Problem is that refs give away yellow cards like they don’t mean anything. So many bullshit yellow card calls for this to be a good idea.
The other side of it is you’ll stop seeing any yellow cards for time wasting since which ref is going to have the balls to send off the keeper for 10 minutes.
Countdown timers to get the ball back in play once it’s set on throws, goal kicks, and corners
Only if multi ball is in effect. Or we may have Eden Hazard esque assaults on ball boys. Imagine a member of the crowd not giving the ball back!
Saying the shot clock only starts when a player has possession leads to lots of gamesmanship as well as they let it roll for 30seconds.
- Fouled player has to take the pk. 2 stopping the clock when the ball is out of play.
- Only give pens for handball if its a denial of a goalscoring opportunity (for example: a blocked shot = penalty, a cross that somehow ends up on someones arm = indirect fk). Purposeful handballs would still be pks.
- Retroactive punishments for diving
Fouled player is unfair. Amount of times the pen is given by a player who passed into the box and was fouled. Not fair it’s now your RB taking it.
If its an unfavourable player, then just have them feign injury. Go off the pitch to receive some treatment and then run back on after the penalty has been taken.
It’s an unenforceable rule.
Stopping the clock when there’s a lengthy stoppage.
If a player goes down “injured” and the med team has to come onto the field, then that player is off for a mandatory 5 minutes. If he’s truly injured, then he can be subbed off and the oncoming player doesn’t have to sit out.
This will eliminate the flopping, especially towards the end of a game when one side has a lead.
If you ask anyone who doesn’t like football what their biggest issue is - it’s the flopping; and it needs to be eradicated.
People that don’t like football point to the flopping without knowing anything about the game. It’s not like they’ve studied the game and this was the issue that eradicated all the merit they’ve found. The same people that point to flopping to justify their prejudice will also point to the low scores. Most people have incorrect opinions about a lot of things. Just how life works.
No loans between Premier League clubs
I hate the way some people take penalties, hop, ship, jump, slow move, skip again, stand on 1 foot and slowly move your striking foot…
its annoying and stupid.Lewandowski is rarely mentioned but his pen run up is horrid
Didn’t he have to retake the same peno twice because of this in the World Cup? Like he made the keeper come off his line early
Lewandowski is rarely mentioned but his pen run up is horrid
One I quite like from the athletic a while back - make the penalty box a semi circle instead of a rectangle (goal to reduce the number of penalties for handballs in non-dangerous areas).
I’d also quite like to tweak the handball rule to something like a “meaningful difference”. Eg if it looks like the ball is going wide but hits a players hand, not a pen. If it brushes a players hand in the box, but doesn’t change the outcome of where the ball lands etc then not a pen.
I like the ideas but the problem is you’d be asking for people to work out the trajectory of a ball when they can’t even draw straight lines.
VAR check for simulation… straight red if determined to be simulation.
I agree that a red should be given for gross and dishonorable tactics. Shirt pulls that don’t immediately let go, diving inside the penalty box, things of that sort. Either too op or just plain dirty.
I would look at penalising retrospectively referees when they make huge cock ups and when it relates to disallowed goals, that this then, within 48hours be addressed and if it changes the result, e.g. a 0-0 draw becomes a 1-0 win,this reflected in the points. Harder to with sending offs as can’t tell for definite the likely result.
The second is not a rule really but I’d mic up referees to a) get clarity on their reasoning and b) highlight abuse claims against officials. It would cut the abuse down imo.
Yellow card for none-captains talking to the ref, or crowding them. Automatic red card for shouting at them.