How would you improve the modern game?

[Brighton TID]

#1: All referees should be deaf. Deaf referees won't be influenced by fan chants/cries etc. Imagine the amount of wrong penalties and sending offs that would not be given at Old Trafford over a season.

#2: Play continues if a player goes down injured. However, physios are allowed to attend the injured. This will eliminate all faking and needless breaks in play, whilst allowing things like heart attacks and tongue swallowing to be sorted without undue delay.

#3: Following on from 2, implement proper time outs for serious injuries rather than the let's all try and guess how much injury time the ref will add on tonight syndrome, which usually amounts to a token 3 minutes plus an extra 5 if the home team are behind.

 

[Beach Hut]

Wage cap

 

[BensGrandad]

1 Wage cap in each division eg Div 2 £1500 per week, Div 1 £2500 pw Championship £5000 pw. Premier £10,000 until club can prove they are trading at a profit and able to pay a higher rate then a limit of £50,000 pw.

2, Time keeper to take this away from the ref etc and take the rugby example and time when the ball goes out of play and is dead after the buzzer sounds.

3. 4 Linos, 2 in each half with designated separate duties 1 from by line to edge of penalty area and 1 from there to half way line.

4. When physio is called on players must be off the field for 2 minutes.

5. Swap yellow cards for timed 'sin bin' 2nd time in sin bin 4x times the period but keep a straight red. That is 1st sin bin 5 mins 2nd 20 mins or end of match which ever comes first.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

- you shout at the ref or linesman - booked
- you swear at either - booked
- you dive - booked
- stop a free kick being taken quickly - booked
- in return, refs should account for their actions. But also we should recognise that people (esp players) make mistakes all the time, so errors will occur.

Bookings don't benefit the team you're playing generally. They affect you many games later. So booking = 10 in the sin bin. Two bookings and you're off.

 

[Daffy Duck]

No offside in the 18 yard box.
Definite booking for diving.
Stop dishing out yellow cards like sweeties for tackles that aren't life-threatening.
Get rid of the 4th official (I mean, what do they do apart from hold a board up for subs or time added on?)
Introduce technology into the game (every other sport seems to live with it ok).

 

[backson]

When players start tiring and slowing down on 75 minutes or so, send some lions on to quicken them up again

 

[Hillian1]

10 a side.
Players can only be offside when in advance of the 18 yard line.
Throw ins taken from the place the ball left the pitch.
Max four foriegn players.
Booking for any player shouting "our ball" when it goes out and is certainly not "our ball". It's cheating to gain an advantage by conning the ref same as divers.

 

[Shinbreath]

I was told about an interesting rule in rugby the other week where if you argue with the refs decision on a free kick, the ball keeps getting moved 10 yards closer to the goal until the players bugger off therefore giving the opposition a large advantage. The closer the goal, the more chance of scoring. If a player argues, his team mates have a go at him as he is doing his team a disservice. This develops a culture where the decision is just accepted, rightly or wrongly, and the players just get on with it.

This could be applied to football where the same thing happens if the refs gets goaded by players. The ball keeps getting moved closer to the goal. If 10 yards equates to the ball being in the penalty area, a penalty gets awarded.

That will soon stop the players surrounding the ref with bullying tactics.

I also believe that every game should be analysed immediately after and punishments should be applied retrospectively for every foul and dishonest act committed.

All of this is OK in theory but in practice, it is not always possible.

 

[Bob!]

No offside in the 18 yard box.
Definite booking for diving.
Stop dishing out yellow cards like sweeties for tackles that aren't life-threatening.
Get rid of the 4th official (I mean, what do they do apart from hold a board up for subs or time added on?)
Introduce technology into the game (every other sport seems to live with it ok).

Get our players sent off? (Burnley at home)

 

[Hillian1]

I was told about an interesting rule in rugby the other week where if you argue with the refs decision on a free kick, the ball keeps getting moved 10 yards closer to the goal until the players bugger off therefore giving the opposition a large advantage. The closer the goal, the more chance of scoring. If a player argues, his team mates have a go at him as he is doing his team a disservice. This develops a culture where the decision is just accepted, rightly or wrongly, and the players just get on with it.

This could be applied to football where the same thing happens if the refs gets goaded by players. The ball keeps getting moved closer to the goal. If 10 yards equates to the ball being in the penalty area, a penalty gets awarded.

That will soon stop the players surrounding the ref with bullying tactics.

I also believe that every game should be analysed immediately after and punishments should be applied retrospectively for every foul and dishonest act committed.

All of this is OK in theory but in practice, it is not always possible.

Sort of agree with that, but I would just have the wall being moved back and the player gets to decide where to take it from, being closer is sometimes a disadvantage.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

1 substitute only

 

[Seasider78]

I was told about an interesting rule in rugby the other week where if you argue with the refs decision on a free kick, the ball keeps getting moved 10 yards closer to the goal until the players bugger off therefore giving the opposition a large advantage. The closer the goal, the more chance of scoring. If a player argues, his team mates have a go at him as he is doing his team a disservice. This develops a culture where the decision is just accepted, rightly or wrongly, and the players just get on with it.

This could be applied to football where the same thing happens if the refs gets goaded by players. The ball keeps getting moved closer to the goal. If 10 yards equates to the ball being in the penalty area, a penalty gets awarded.

That will soon stop the players surrounding the ref with bullying tactics.

think this has already been done previously but don't see it so much anymore so assuming the rule was removed

 

[Bridcutt]

1 substitute only

Just, no.

 

[BensGrandad]

I was told about an interesting rule in rugby the other week where if you argue with the refs decision on a free kick, the ball keeps getting moved 10 yards closer to the goal until the players bugger off therefore giving the opposition a large advantage. The closer the goal, the more chance of scoring. If a player argues, his team mates have a go at him as he is doing his team a disservice. This develops a culture where the decision is just accepted, rightly or wrongly, and the players just get on with it.

This could be applied to football where the same thing happens if the refs gets goaded by players. The ball keeps getting moved closer to the goal. If 10 yards equates to the ball being in the penalty area, a penalty gets awarded.

That will soon stop the players surrounding the ref with bullying tactics.

I also believe that every game should be analysed immediately after and punishments should be applied retrospectively for every foul and dishonest act committed.

All of this is OK in theory but in practice, it is not always possible.

That was tried and the rule dropped because either it didnt work or I think it may have been because EUFA or FIFA made us drop it. The major problem on this is that players do not have any respect for the officials as they do in rugby but this is bye product pof the 'expert analysis ' on TV. where every decision is dissected to prove the ref wrong.

 

[jackalbion]

get rid of sepp blatter

 

[banjo]

Sin bins for diving and arguing.
Goal line technology.
4th official should have a screen as in cricket to decide on contentious decisions.

 

[marcy17]

BY getting the advance configuration for that..

 

[Gwylan]

I was told about an interesting rule in rugby the other week where if you argue with the refs decision on a free kick, the ball keeps getting moved 10 yards closer to the goal until the players bugger off therefore giving the opposition a large advantage. The closer the goal, the more chance of scoring. If a player argues, his team mates have a go at him as he is doing his team a disservice. This develops a culture where the decision is just accepted, rightly or wrongly, and the players just get on with it.

This could be applied to football where the same thing happens if the refs gets goaded by players. The ball keeps getting moved closer to the goal. If 10 yards equates to the ball being in the penalty area, a penalty gets awarded.

This was introduced in football a few years ago as an experimental rule, it lasted a few seasons before the experiment was abandoned - thanks to those pesky foreigners.

FIFA scrap ten-yard rule... as non-rugby countries don't understand it | Mail Online

"Keith Hackett, head of Premiership referees, has expressed his disappointment at FIFA's decision to scrap the popular '10-yard rule' at free-kicks.
Football's governing body sanctioned an experiment with the regulation in the Premier League and Football League over the past four seasons, allowing referees to move free-kicks 10 yards closer to the offending side's goal.
The aim of the rule - widely used in both codes of rugby - was to cut out player dissent, and while not as widely used as originally intended, referees believed it to be a useful aid in their attempt to keep order.
However, after further consultation, FIFA have opted to abandon the experiment due to the confusion in non-rugby playing nations, who do not understand the logic behind the rule.
"It is a disappointing decision because while the law was not used a lot, it did have an impact on the behaviour of players," Hackett said.
"The referees over here found it acted as a deterrent. The problem, as I understand it, is the countries who do not have any familiarity with the concept couldn't get their heads around the process."

 

[Gullys Cats]

#1: All referees should be deaf. Deaf referees won't be influenced by fan chants/cries etc. Imagine the amount of wrong penalties and sending offs that would not be given at Old Trafford over a season.

#2: Play continues if a player goes down injured. However, physios are allowed to attend the injured. This will eliminate all faking and needless breaks in play, whilst allowing things like heart attacks and tongue swallowing to be sorted without undue delay.

#3: Following on from 2, implement proper time outs for serious injuries rather than the let's all try and guess how much injury time the ref will add on tonight syndrome, which usually amounts to a token 3 minutes plus an extra 5 if the home team are behind.

number 1

 

[Shinbreath]

Cheers for coming up with that Gwylan. It seems that that rule did have some effect according to the article but as you say, those pesky foreigners are always getting involved.

How the hell did we lose so much control over the game WE invented ? ? ?