What would you change in the game?

1 - The away goals rule does my head in. if a game finishes 4-4 how can one team lose? i think it's a stupid rule and so many teams have been knocked out of the CL on that stupid rule.

2 - only english, spanish, german and italian refs for world cups and european cups the standard of refs at some of those events is pathetic.

3 - video replay for penalty's, offsides, yellow and red card incidents.

4 - get rid of FIFA most corrupt FA ever.
 
1 - The away goals rule does my head in. if a game finishes 4-4 how can one team lose? i think it's a stupid rule and so many teams have been knocked out of the CL on that stupid rule.

2 - only english, spanish, german and italian refs for world cups and european cups the standard of refs at some of those events is pathetic.

3 - video replay for penalty's, offsides, yellow and red card incidents.

4 - get rid of FIFA most corrupt FA ever.

2.. English spanish german and italian ref's are all just as bad, english ref, supposedly best in the league 3 yellow cards, sure.

3, yes, but offsides should be relegated to only when a goal has been scored, realistically if someone is called offside 30 yards from goal does the ref play on, let them score then check? If they are offside it gets disallowed but the player has the confidence of beating the keeper with a shot he should never have had... what about if a player crashes into and injures the keeper. Should only be done in situations where a goal was scored but people think its offside to double check.

4/ its called power, there is not a single organisation that deals with money, profits and has no corruption. Fifa isn't corrupt, individual countries elect their representative, and several of those guys are corrupt, should you blame Fifa for T&T electing their official and him being corrupt? Should Fifa be blamed if we elect someone and he is corrupt? power corrupts, money corrupts, there will never, ever be a "fifa" type organisation without any corruption at all, its impossible. It's only become an issue since England not getting the world cup, for anyone that has a clue what goes on this was NOT a corrupt decision by Fifa, it was a corrupt plan by English people to get paid millions to put together a bid for a world cup THEY COULD NEVER WIN.

Fifa's mandate was ALWAYS and for around a decade to go to new countries and new continents, Brazil won because NO ONE ELSE applied in south america, this was exactly what they didn't want. They opened up applications to all countries to avoid only one single country from a continent applying, their idea was always and for over a decade stated to go to new places. England has a 0% chance of winning it, anyone who knew about this at the FA who also told our government to put in a bid was lying, was doing so because they would be paid to put together the bid and THAT person is corrupt here, not Fifa(in this case, there is corruption in Fifa but in this situation its the FA or people with in it who were corrupt.. its everywhere).



Getting rid of penalties is a ridiculous way to stop people shirt pulling.

If people actual conceded penalties for shirt pulling.......... people would stop pulling shirts in the penalty box there is no other answer here. Ref's stopped punishing it so players started doing it, why don't players just kick other players in the face, because they'd get a red card, its that simple. Video replays for incidents like those would stop 90% of cheating in weeks.
 
1/ Diving - going down on the slightest touch

2/ Rules not clear, and at a refs discretion, should be changed so all rules r enforced. time and time again you see players going in with studs up, some refs will give it and others wont.

3/ Surrounding refs to get a decision, hate seeing that, and one player that springs to mind that annoys me is steven fletcher.

4/ Goal line tech, but personaly i think this could be extended to see replays of fouls no ? to see if a player was diving or not, obviously you would need an extra official to watch the replys.

5/ Pundits criticising one player for going down easy/diving then saying when another player does it that he is clever!

all i can think of at this time :D
 
I remember in the early days of Sky coverage their end of match stats used to include the amount of time the ball was in play and it was never far off an hour or so. On that basis I'd change the length of the game to 60 minutes 'ball in play' (the 4th official can act as timekeeper). At a stroke you've eliminated a whole bunch of timewasting and rolling around on the floor.

I'd also clean up the game by introducing a straight red card for any act of deliberate cheating with bans applied retrospectively if the ref doesn't see it. Dives, feigning injury, tripping on the halfway line to stop a counter attack, defenders shuffling towards a free kick when the ref has his back to them would all become red card offenses. It'll ruin a few matches before the players learn to play the game in the right spirit but it'll be worth it in the long run.

Finally I'd stop cases where a defender/keeper makes an honest challenge for the ball but gives away a penalty and is then punished with a red card in addition to conceding the penalty. Instead the attacking teams captain is given a choice. They can either have the red card applied for preventing a goal scoring opportunity or they can have the opportunity restored in the form of a penalty kick but they can't have both. Where the foul was not an innocent misjudgment (ie deliberate handball on the line) then the above applies (ie a red for cheating, plus the penalty.)
 
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My wish list would be:

Video replays for unclear goal-related incidents

Did the ball cross the line? Was it a penalty? Was it offside? Any unclear incident leading to a goal should be reviewed by a fifth official with a TV monitor. It should be easy enough to make a ruling within the time it takes a player to celebrate the goal.

Scrap yellow cards for over-celebrating goals

Goals are what football is about. Don't penalise players for being happy. Unless they incite the opposition fans, let them have a bit of fun.

Retrospective action for play-acting/diving

There's already a dubious goals panel. Add one for simulation. Players shouldn't be allowed to win free kicks, penalties and red cards through cheating. Make the punishments harsh for blatant cheating.

Re-think the European club competitions

Bring back the Cup-Winner's Cup and make the UEFA Cup a straight knock-out competition. Champions League losers shouldn't be allowed into the UEFA Cup.

Sack all of the **** pundits

Alan Hansen, Alan Shearer, pretty much anyone on ITV...

Stop FIFA corruption

Very, very hard to do. Anyone with the ability to do so is on the payroll of FIFA and doesn't want to give up their massive wage and benefits.


I love the current offside rule though. It's dramatically shifted football from a defensive game to an attacking game.
 
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I can't think of any to be honest except for goal-line technology and offside technology.

Don't allow rich people to buy football clubs to go and spend £100+ million a year on players. There should be a budget cap and you should have to get most of your players from your youth academy like Barcelona.
 
Goal line technology

Only captain can speak to ref, anyone else does equals yellow card

Retrospective punishment for diving and feigning injuring

Get rid of rule if ref sees an incident it cant be punished after game
 
* Not goal line technology, just better officiating. What I love about football is that the rules are the same for my 10 year olds team as it is for the open age on the park as it is for the local amateur side as it is for a team in Div 1 as it is for a team in the Champions League. It's a level playing field. Why should Camera's only be brought in for the high profile leagues/tournaments and cups ?? Surely the prize is all relative

* 10 Yards for Dissent

* Punishment the same for diving as for professional fouls

* Lots more money going into grassroots football

* Under 14s football to be a summer sport(along the same calendar as Rugby League)
 
* Not goal line technology, just better officiating. What I love about football is that the rules are the same for my 10 year olds team as it is for the open age on the park as it is for the local amateur side as it is for a team in Div 1 as it is for a team in the Champions League. It's a level playing field. Why should Camera's only be brought in for the high profile leagues/tournaments and cups ?? Surely the prize is all relative

* 10 Yards for Dissent

* Punishment the same for diving as for professional fouls

* Lots more money going into grassroots football

* Under 14s football to be a summer sport(along the same calendar as Rugby League)

I like the last four ideas, but referees are unwilling to give yellow cards for diving so upping the punishment will surely just discourage them further.

As for the first point, as Brendan Rodgers pointed out on Goals on Sunday, amateur sides can't afford floodlights so should professional teams not have them either? Having goal line cameras doesn't change the rules of the game, it just makes them easier to enforce.
 
I like the last four ideas, but referees are unwilling to give yellow cards for diving so upping the punishment will surely just discourage them further.

As for the first point, as Brendan Rodgers pointed out on Goals on Sunday, amateur sides can't afford floodlights so should professional teams not have them either? Having goal line cameras doesn't change the rules of the game, it just makes them easier to enforce.

Fair point from Rodgers I guess but the rules of the game remain unaltered if it kicks off at 3.00pm or 8.00pm. GLT fundamentally alters the fabric of the game
 
* Not goal line technology, just better officiating. What I love about football is that the rules are the same for my 10 year olds team as it is for the open age on the park as it is for the local amateur side as it is for a team in Div 1 as it is for a team in the Champions League. It's a level playing field. Why should Camera's only be brought in for the high profile leagues/tournaments and cups ?? Surely the prize is all relative

Champions League games have six officials. I'd be surprised if your local amateur side has more than three.
 
Two 30min halves, where EVERY time the ball goes out of play or play stops for whatever reason, the clock stops.

So much simpler and fairer than silly stoppage time which is always, always, wrong.

They do it this way in other sports and it works great, why not in football? :(
 
I would like to see terracing brought back. It just doesn't feel right watching football sat down, standing up goes a long way into inducing a great atmosphere.

I go to watch a fair bit of lower league football where terracing still exists, and while the quality of the football is not as high the atmosphere can be great.
 
Is like to see blatant swearing at refs a red card offence, these guys are some children's heros and the stuff you see in a live game is just not good enough. I'd like to see the rugby sin bin system, it will work if 2 or 3 players are off the pitch at once. I'd get rid of the away goals system, it's awful. Also, let players celebrate goals for goodness sake!
 
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