Football Law Changes...

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Some interesting stuff in here, some reasonable trials on video technology (I am not in favour,but it needs to be tried), but particularly the changes to penalty kicks, denying a goalscoring opportunity and injured players not needing to leave the pitch if the other player is booked (I think that was the case once anyway).

uk.reuters.com/article/uk-soccer-laws-idUKKCN0W70JT

Hopefully there will be a better, more complete article at some stage.

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Indeed the change about the player not being required to leave the pitch if the other guy is booked is not even in this article, but it was on Sky Sports News, so it must be true.

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I think that technology and the new laws relating to it have enhanced cricket. I don't really like Rugby anyway, but even though it has slowed it doen, it doesn't appear to have lost its appeal to the fans. To be fair though, it always was a stop-start-stop-start game from what I could see. 

What at I would like to see in football is the moaning and challenging ref's decisions. Only the captain should be allowed to talk to the ref (not the assistants) and, if there was video evidence, a maximum of two appeals per side per half. Any other player challenging the ref, yellow card. 

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I like the one about stopping and starting in a penalty run up, that's never seemed right to me.
Video technology is ok to be reviewed by someone in the stands on things such as off sides, but things like penalties and free kicks can be a matter of opinion and could cause even more confusion, ( I know decisions should be made according to the rules but individuals read the rules differently unfortunately ).
I must also add that it must never be allowed that the game is stopped to review video evidence, if there is a natural break in the action then yes but if it was stopped at every incident the game could go on for 2 hours or more.

[swaddy Dave]

Mar 6, 2016 7:20:01 GMT @rayvon said:

I think that technology and the new laws relating to it have enhanced cricket. I don't really like Rugby anyway, but even though it has slowed it doen, it doesn't appear to have lost its appeal to the fans. To be fair though, it always was a stop-start-stop-start game from what I could see. 

What at I would like to see in football is the moaning and challenging ref's decisions. Only the captain should be allowed to talk to the ref (not the assistants) and, if there was video evidence, a maximum of two appeals per side per half. Any other player challenging the ref, yellow card. 

Didn't the rule about only the captain challenging a Refs decision come in a few years back? Its obviously not been enforced though as is with the 6 second rule for keepers holding the ball.

Edit:- If I am wrong and the rule about only the captain challenging the Ref didn't come in,then I totally agree it should.

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Mar 6, 2016 7:20:01 GMT @rayvon said:

I think that technology and the new laws relating to it have enhanced cricket. I don't really like Rugby anyway, but even though it has slowed it doen, it doesn't appear to have lost its appeal to the fans. To be fair though, it always was a stop-start-stop-start game from what I could see. 

What at I would like to see in football is the moaning and challenging ref's decisions. Only the captain should be allowed to talk to the ref (not the assistants) and, if there was video evidence, a maximum of two appeals per side per half. Any other player challenging the ref, yellow card. 

Rugby union is definitely stop start and quite frustrating but rugby league is still played at 100mph and lost none of it's blood and thunder thanks to the fact that video technology is only used during a game to award tries and plays called "40/20's" which I won't bore you all by going into but are an integral part of the attacking game. They haven't messed with the game too much.

I'm a fan of using technology to award goals and to look at contentious penalty decisions but nothing else. The increase in gamesmanship means that, as Swaddy says, games would end up lasting 2 hours and you'd also be taking power away from referees. In 10/20 years time the standard of the "on pitch" officiating would drop even more because there would be less to it and therefore less interest in taking it up.

I'd be in more in favour of focusing attention on improving the standard of officiating.

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Against video technology really, remember when Sharps was sent off in the playoffs for handball after it hit his chest. Stills were put up on Facebook of the incident and one of our own qualified refs still thought it was handball and that the photos had been photoshopped.

My point being that there is still a lot of opinion involved, which is worse, a referee getting it wrong in the heat of the moment, one view or the 5th referee getting it wrong because on the 58th viewing he demonstrates that he is a pillock who has never played the game?

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American football stops for video 'anal'ysis by the referee. He makes a decison and half of the time he is still wrong in half of the peoples minds.

But Coca Cola, Pepsi etc. absolutely love it!!

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Mar 6, 2016 10:27:14 GMT @funky said:

Against video technology really, remember when Sharps was sent off in the playoffs for handball after it hit his chest. Stills were put up on Facebook of the incident and one of our own qualified refs still thought it was handball and that the photos had been photoshopped.

My point being that there is still a lot of opinion involved, which is worse, a referee getting it wrong in the heat of the moment, one view or the 5th referee getting it wrong because on the 58th viewing he demonstrates that he is a pillock who has never played the game?

Someone posted this picture on the day. We all know it hit what's his name on the right side of his body. Leonard and Bell are in focus, maybe they just stood still for a second for the photo? That is a picture of a TV screen BTW,
do you still think it hasn't been tampered with?