Some FIFA rules need to change to make football (we don't call it soccer) more attractive: more goals, less irritation about erroneous referees, less dead moments.
First, the offside rule has to disappear. This causes now to many dead moments. Without it the field will be much "longer", and there is more space for the man with the ball.
Second, the yellow card has to be changed into a real penalty: get the player for 5 minutes off the field. So that there is room for a kind of power play during that time. This gives a real and immediate advantage to the side that was victimized.
Third, the video referee is deadly needed. No discussion about that. Too many games are decided by wrong referee decision. Hands balls that were overlooked. Off side situations that were missed or wrongly seen. (Offside has to disappear any way).
Fourth, draws are not decided by penalty series. But a golden goal. If that does not work, each team has to withdraw two players from the field every five minutes. Believe me, in the end there will be a decisive goal. And a lot of fun in the mean time.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
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