Changes to Laws for the 2016/17 season

[BaZ87]

I've just been reading about some changes to the laws we'll be seeing this coming season.

The biggest change being how denying a goalscoring opportunity inside the area is punished.

Previously, the player to concede the foul would have been sent off under the "triple-punishment" rule, which sanctioned the offence with a red card, suspension and a penalty kick.

In the new laws a player who commits a foul while tackling in a "fair and reasonable" attempt to play the ball will only receive a yellow card for this offence, because it is considered that the penalty kick recreates the goalscoring opportunity that was lost by the foul.

If the offence is outside the penalty area, or if the foul is for holding or handball, then it will still be sanctioned with a red card.

https://www.premierleague.com/news/66192

I know a lot of people have called for this change in the past but I've never bene convinced. I've always thought that the red card was needed to stop cynical fouls so the key for me as to whether this rule will work or not is the interpretation of whether a defender has made a "fair and reasonable" attempt to play the ball and how consistent the decisions on that are. I fear that we'll be getting so many inconsistent decisions that it gets simplified and tripping a player is a yellow and holding them is a red.

 

[FrankJH]

I fear that we'll be getting so many inconsistent decisions that it gets simplified and tripping a player is a yellow and holding them is a red.

Have refs consistantly got the offside rule correct, and how long did it take (admittedly they keep on changing how it works but even so)

This is going to be just the same imo, its going to be inconsistantly viewed by refs and it will cause even more confusion


Did they change the rules about approaching refs also?

 

[Newbfail]

Yes you can get booked for discent if you pack around the ref