Changes In Football thread

[Dirk Gently]

Another ******* stupid bit of fiddling about that no-one wants. Why not do something to improve the quality of the refereeing and the use of VAR instead?

Can't they do both?

FWIW quite happy with them banning knee slides. Not so much to protect professional athletes knee sliding on pristine premier league turf, but to protect kids who will copy them and knee slide on barely maintained, stone-embedded, dogshit-encrusted council pitches.

In that case

#banspitting
#banarguingwithreferees
#banfallingoverwhenbarelytouched
#baninjurysimulation
#bangrassrootparentalshenanigans

Absolutley, all of them ought to be banned.

But again, can't they do all of them?

They shouldn't be criticised for doing one/more good things just because they're not doing one/more other good things.

[Winston Biscuit]

They need to anticipate things that might happen and ban them beforehand rather than waiting for it to happen then banning it.

ban goal celebrations that involve doing MC Hammer legs type dance. I have never seen anyone do that on a football pitch, but I would hate to, so outlaw it now before its too late

[Winston Biscuit]

FIFA & IFAB reportedly to discuss a change to the offside law which would see a player only offside if they are beyond the defender rather than having to stay level

[Winston Biscuit]

currently a bill going through French parliament which, if passed, would ban football clubs from being part of a multi club ownership model

[Sutekh]

currently a bill going through French parliament which, if passed, would ban football clubs from being part of a multi club ownership model

Chelsea or Strasbourg would have to be sold by BlueCo

[Winston Biscuit]

currently a bill going through French parliament which, if passed, would ban football clubs from being part of a multi club ownership model

Chelsea or Strasbourg would have to be sold by BlueCo

Apparently there are 25 French clubs part of MCO!

Not sure if this would be done retrospectively or just banning future action

[Winston Biscuit]

Argentina FA brings in a new rule banning players from ever being called up to the international team if they move abroad before signing their first professional contract with an Argentine club

[Clyde1998]

Argentina FA brings in a new rule banning players from ever being called up to the international team if they move abroad before signing their first professional contract with an Argentine club

Odd handicap to put on themselves. Fairly certain Lionel Messi signed his first pro deal with Barcelona. Doesn't seem to be too many of their current squad who signed their first professional contracts outwith Argentina anyway.

[Whore Jackie]

EFL clubs will vote at the EGM on 5 March on expanding the Championship playoffs to six teams. The EFL’s proposal would add an eliminator round in a format similar to that used by the National League.

Fifth-placed team would play the eighth-placed team, and sixth would play seventh, at the higher-ranked club’s ground in a one-off tie to determine progression to the two-leg playoff semi-finals against the clubs that finished third and fourth. Final at Wembley as per currently.

FA has approved it. PL has concerns. If successful, it could be extended to Leagues 1 and 2 in the future.

[Sutekh]

EFL clubs will vote at the EGM on 5 March on expanding the Championship playoffs to six teams. The EFL’s proposal would add an eliminator round in a format similar to that used by the National League.

Fifth-placed team would play the eighth-placed team, and sixth would play seventh, at the higher-ranked club’s ground in a one-off tie to determine progression to the two-leg playoff semi-finals against the clubs that finished third and fourth. Final at Wembley as per currently.

FA has approved it. PL has concerns. If successful, it could be extended to Leagues 1 and 2 in the future.

Oh just **** off! ££€££€€$$$$$¥¥$$$¥¥$$$

What the hell is the point of having a division of clubs all playing 46 league games then

Top two up but instead of sending the third best club up let’s send up the EIGHTH best!

It’s already ridiculous when you get 3rd place being 10+ points clear of the pack not going up, imagine if they’re 30 points ahead of 8th and 8th getting the spot! Should be looking at the Italian play off model not making a bigger laughing stock out of it all.