[Archived] If You Could Change One Thing About The Beautiful Game?

[Claytons Left Boot]

Get rid of two of the most stupid phrases relating to football :- The Beautiful Game and In The Hole.

Ban offside in its entirety which should open up the game a treat.

Stop players gaining five yards plus when taking a throw in. Make them take it exactly where the ball went out.

Players who feign injury (cheat), get them straight before the cameras after the game and make them explain their baby like actions. Retrospective yellow card here as well.

No defensive walls at free kicks.

Referees to be female, voluptuous and naked. Sorry Arbitro but you know I'm right!

[matt83]

I'd change:

1 technology in as many ways as they can use it

2 sin bin for yellow cards which are pointless unless they serve as a double booking

3 clamp down on this stuff where the ball is going out of play and the defender can more or less wrestle the attacker to the ground

4 stop volume of foreigners playing. I'm not talking about the top top ones the random ones just bought for the sake of it. For every samba you'd unfortunately miss out on there are about 20+ goulons you'd thankfully avoid.

5 teams in claret and blue should start games 1-0 down.

[ABBEY]

Depends if they look Gav in drag CLB.

Rule I'd change is giving ball back after injuries and players going off and instead of a Nancy drop ball have a real old school drop ball

Oh and shirt pulling in box is pen and instant red with [10 match ban

[Tim Southampton Rover]

Make the goals bigger.

[arbitro]

Get rid of two of the most stupid phrases relating to football :- The Beautiful Game and In The Hole.

Ban offside in its entirety which should open up the game a treat.

Stop players gaining five yards plus when taking a throw in. Make them take it exactly where the ball went out.

Players who feign injury (cheat), get them straight before the cameras after the game and make them explain their baby like actions. Retrospective yellow card here as well.

No defensive walls at free kicks.

Referees to be female, voluptuous and naked. Sorry Arbitro but you know I'm right!

If that was the case Mark I wouldn't have retired.

My pet hate is players who deliberately delay the restart of the game by 'moving' the ball away from where it should be restarted. In the early 90's it became a mandatory caution and after much criticism there were signs that it was abating. Like most instructions though there was a relaxing of this and now it it as bad as it ever was. It denies an opportunity to take a quick free kick and subsequently has a effect on the flow of he game.

[AHoyle90]

How could you want the Champions League? The elite level of Football nowadays.

Only thing i'd scrap is the away goals rule.

[Rover_Shaun]

How could you want the Champions League? The elite level of Football nowadays.

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