What football law change would you propose ?

[goodisonopheliac]

Teams in red who dance with the devil get relegated every six months.

A lot of Germans would be well up for that.

 

[Steve0]

A lot of Germans would be well up for that.

That's probably not the best recommendation for something.

Both teams get a 15 minutes powerplay where they have 12 players.
Reduce goal area by half.
Headers and volleys worth two.
No offside In the last 10 minutes.
Fly goalie.
Consistent application of retrospective punishment for diving.
Salary cap.
Portion of all sponsorship deals to be distributed equally (United get 80m a year because they're in the premiership).

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

That's probably not the best recommendation for something.

Both teams get a 15 minutes powerplay where they have 12 players.
Reduce goal area by half.
Headers and volleys worth two.
No offside In the last 10 minutes.
Fly goalie.
Consistent application of retrospective punishment for diving.
Salary cap.
Portion of all sponsorship deals to be distributed equally (United get 80m a year because they're in the premiership).

Fly goalie?
I get the meaning but never heard that expression.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

How about;
Even though you're relegated play each game the way you should.
Don't just enjoy the experience like a non-league club who've got a money spinning draw in the fa cup (even they would have left their mark on a player to brag about in their local ).
No swapping shirts after you've just been gubbed 5-0.
Walking off the pitch smiling as above.
After being subbed walking off the pitch chest out thinking you've had a decent game at 4_0 down.

 

[davids]

No offside.

 

[brigadier]

Indirect free kicks in the box for accidentally handling the ball.

 

[zzr45]

There’s no point arguing with a brick wall

If you want the top 6 sides to continue to buy and hoard all the best young players in the world and finish in the top 6 every season then that’s fine you can enjoy that mundane and boring system

If you can’t see that a draft system would result in fairness for every team involved in the league and would benefit everyone then that’s your loss

By brick wall you mean asking questions like who would actually fund the player development? Oh.

Again the current system isn’t perfect, but there’s youth still flourishing. There’s no such thing as fairness in sport, if everything was fair it would be totally boring

 

[zzr45]

But that's not how it works. Junior football and the development of young footballers wouldn't be the job of professional football clubs. Draft eligible players have spent their time playing for colleges or, sometimes, the armed forces sports sides. It's a big reason that college football is so big, competitive and well followed over in the States. It does a much better job of teaching young players to cope with pressure and expectation.

It'll never happen over here but it's arguably very much a better pathway into professional sport for potential young players given that it encourages regular school attendance and an emphasis on the importance of further education rather than having teams "helping" out families of young players to encourage them to sign up and then dropping them in the highly likely event that it doesn't work out.

Oh yeah the strengths of the system are undeniable. The problem is like you say, it’ll never happen in this country unless the FA set up development centres at county level, all league teams were prohibited from running youth teams and instead had to put in to a development pot.

 

[Sarnia Kevin]

How about a law stating: Teams qualify for the European champions cup by actually managing to be champions ffs.

Also I'd introduce a law prohibiting any more meddling with the laws of a perfectly good game that's been successful for well over a century, by a bunch of blerts who think they know better and want something to put on their cv.

Although - id like the rule where if you argue with the ref, a free kick gets advanced 10 yards.

This

 

[Tree13]

When you compare the standard of officiating in football with almost every other sport, you come to an inevitable conclusion: it doesn't matter what you do about the rules, the people paid to enforce them can't do their existing jobs.

As a start, introduce microphones for all refs. When the fans can hear the players, the level of dissent will drop overnight. With less dissent, the referees have a better chance of performing better. And if we can hear the refs too, their mistakes can be spotted and dealt with a bit more easily.

Add in the rugby rule of moving the ball forward ten yards for dissent - if that turns a free kick into a penalty, all the better.

Adopt VAR immediately.

 

[ClausThomsen]

I could well be wrong. I just see the issues with drafts in the US regarding supremely talented young players being paid well below normal market value and am unsure how that would play out in a sport that has more than one major league in the world.

As I mentioned before, I think revenue sharing models are a better way to spread the talent around a league without placing undue burden on the players(as much as any young person making a normal yearly salary per week can be burdened ; but money in sport is obscene and IO'd rather the owners take a financial hit over the players). It also makes sense to me from a fairness perspective - would Liverpool/United/et. al. be able to bring in so much revenue if they didn't have opposition?

It could work, maybe, to have a draft, I just don't think the American model works outside of American sports due to the history and respective worldwide appeal.

Oh yeah the strengths of the system are undeniable. The problem is like you say, it’ll never happen in this country unless the FA set up development centres at county level, all league teams were prohibited from running youth teams and instead had to put in to a development pot.

A development pot and independent junior sides ran in conjunction with schools and further education establishments would be great and it would be sound seeing that kind of fanatical following that you get at college sports in the USA. But alas it's pie in the sky and as pointed out beset with problems!

 

[ClausThomsen]

Bring in VAR but have a manager's challenge style system. Each team can call for a VAR review twice per half - if they're right to challenge they keep their call, if not they lose one.

 

[mawders]

Get rid of Var. It's going to destroy enjoyment of football.

 

[upthetoffees]

Bring in VAR but have a manager's challenge style system. Each team can call for a VAR review twice per half - if they're right to challenge they keep their call, if not they lose one.

This sounds like a wonderful opportunity for us to lose our second challenge, get 8 minutes of stoppage time and concede two goals, ultimately losing 2-1.

 

[summerisle]

I think this'd stop some of it.