Quite simple really, if you had complete control of Football, what’s the one thing you’d want to change or introduce to the sport? It can be absolutely anything no matter how big or small the idea is.
Open to serious and not so serious suggestions Let’s get the ball rolling.
The retrospective action rule. I don’t care if the referee says he “saw” it – If it was basically an assault and the ref only gave a yellow then he clearly didn’t “see” it and the FA should be able to intervene.
I dunno what i would rather change more (literally 50/50) i would either want a cap on wages and transfers in each window, that or having refs being held accountable for bad calls even if it meant fines or being dropped they get away with far too much and it would stop some of this blatant bias certain refs have for or against certain teams.
I’d reduce the range for penalty fouls, maybe 10 or 11 yards in a circular area since it would be impossible to take a free kick within that range.
18 yards is an arbitrary distance for a 90% free goal, and where the area is rectangular theres those bits at the corner that are more like 20 yards away but still give penalties.
I think penalties on the whole are a shit thing, but also hate that what would otherwise be legitimate free kicks are not given because they happen to be in the box and a ref doesn’t have the balls to give a penalty. So a team may actually suffer from being fouled inside rather than outside the box.
It’s a completely arbitrary figure I plucked out of thin air, however I wouldn’t like to see a target any <10% as I think the appetite is there for it and it is virtually essential in improving the atmosphere at a typical Premier League match. Might be hard to go too far north of 10% either tho, lots of opposition still on safety and logistical grounds, as well as the fact that many people do just want to sit at football matches now
Bans/Retrospective bans for diving an play acting diving ie neymar at the World Cup
Scrap the January transfer window and just have the summer window. Would give the youth player more chance of playing first team football when first team players are injured.
Ken Bates destroyed football when he sold Chelsea to Arthur Wankabitch. There were 4-5 teams all on the same level until he sold out . Sadly this led to the end of a working mans game .
Referees should be calling fouls (and booking players) for intention to foul.
So many times you see a player deliberately trying to foul but not making contact with the ball or player. The referee should treat these intentions as if the player actually suffered a collision.