Changes In Football thread

[Royal Rother]

Currently time wasting is punished by a yellow card which many think is worth it.

I'd punish it by a turnover of possession. Give the throw in or FK to the opposing team. Replace a GK with a corner etc. Much bigger deterrent.

Yes, but you can't punish a team where a goalkeeper is, on rare occasions, actually suffering a genuine injury.

(If you were referring my previous post, which, on reflection, I don't think you were!)

If you were just referring to general time wasting, then yes, I agree!

[Brogue]

The EFL Board is considering expanding the Championship play-offs to include the teams finishing seventh and eighth, with widespread backing from club executives, Sky Sports News understands

[Winston Biscuit]

Had completely missed the first player moving between clubs under the new Lassana Diarra case rules (even though the new rules are still being worked out)

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6640988/2025/09/25/transfer-diarra-ribeiro-fifa-news/

Lucas Ribeiro had 3 years left on his contract with South African club Mamelodi Sundowns but he handed in his notice on 1st August, stayed with them for the month and then on 31st August he took up new employement with Spanish 2nd tier club. Fifa approved it.

[Sutekh]

Thinking one improvement that could be made would be to allow the ref to use VAR to identify the tight decisions in the box re: corners and goal kicks

[Winston Biscuit]

Was just reading how a few months back the Brazilian FA banned standing on the football and you get a yellow card for it. Its been dubbed 'the Memphis rule' because the rule was brought in as a response to Memphis Depay doing it for Corinthians and it resulted in mass handbags



Brazilians banning showboating seems quite the weird move