Kandi1977
Teddy Sheringham
Lol! No! That was ditched 30 years ago,after only being a rule for a couple of years.
It hasn't been enforced in donkeys years, so they forgot it existed and made up a "new" rule.
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Rule changes in football
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Robbo
Tom Huddlestone
Odd and inconsistent - just like you'd expect from that lot.
elyid
Dean Austin
Haha. Train and build a team purely for defending corners and breaking from them — then pass it back to your keeper to try again lol
JerusalemMan
Jimmy McCormick
I see one of the rule changes is that CHelsea get even more dodgy decisions for them
More like 40 perhaps, the 4-step rule was in effect when I was keeper as a kid.
elyid
Dean Austin
How long has that been a rule? Sure we’ve conceded goals where the attacker has been right next to our wall
K.D.D.D.D.Soc
Nayim
Now we'll see the tactical genius who gets his defenders to pull forwards into the wall
K.D.D.D.D.Soc
Nayim
All those games wasting time for Noucassel came back and bit him.
mudshark
Simon Davies
I wouldn't bet against it being the first and last time the rule gets applied, before it's forgotten about again just like its predecessor.
fernadez
Edgar Davids
Should enforce it for thrown ins as well
Robbo
Tom Huddlestone
Premier League chiefs hold talks on rise of set pieces amid concern over quality
The Premier League’s sporting directors have discussed the ubiquity of set-piece goals and holding in the penalty area
"The Premier League’s sporting directors have held talks about the ubiquity of set-piece goals and holding in the penalty area, amid concerns these trends are damaging the spectacle."
This wording perfectly sums up the biggest problem with PL football today. It's not about enforcing the rules correctly, fairly and consistently - it’s about protecting the product and the revenue streams above anything else.
Baleforce
Terry Naylor
Premier League chiefs hold talks on rise of set pieces amid concern over quality
The Premier League’s sporting directors have discussed the ubiquity of set-piece goals and holding in the penalty areawww.theguardian.com
"The Premier League’s sporting directors have held talks about the ubiquity of set-piece goals and holding in the penalty area, amid concerns these trends are damaging the spectacle."
This wording perfectly sums up the biggest problem with PL football today. It's not about enforcing the rules correctly, fairly and consistently - it’s about protecting the product and the revenue streams above anything else.
A lot of fans claim to have that view though right.
Aesthetics over effectiveness isn’t a niche opinion.
Also, did they forget the first 150 odd years of English football before the PL came along, that’s just what it was like back then.
I started going to games in the 80’s, it’s was universally a series of goal kicks and corners. The ball spent 99% of the game 30 feet over the players heads.
Robbo
Tom Huddlestone
All fair points. It just sounds hollow when they're so clearly not very bothered about the integrity of the refereeing and clamping down properly on obvious cheating and time wasting.
Baleforce
Terry Naylor
Thats all on the officiating. It’s the players responsibility to win by any means necessary.
If a team finds an advantage they can mine due to poorly worded or badly applied laws, I applaud that.
Robbo
Tom Huddlestone
Rectifying that is on the governing bodies, though. That's where their focus should be. Both on the quality, fairness and consistency of refereeing.
Take for instance time wasting, which has been a major issue since the days of Reyes and Drogba, probably before that. Now you have technology that will expose it. Change the laws, punish it properly, fairly and consistently, and you'd all butt erradicate it.
That's the kind of thing they should worry about, but they probably don't, because it’s part of the "spectacle".
ricky2tricky4city
Barry Daines
The stopped clock method would render all time wasting pointless BUT midweek games wouldn't finish until midnight (for example)
fernadez
Edgar Davids
Easiest rule change to bring in. With the Americanisation of the game I'm actually suprised it hasn't been trialed...imagine the ad revenue.