Law changes!!

[Dundalk_Spur]

Just saw this on the BBC Sport webstie (don't think there is a thread yet).

Mostly common sense changes, which I am shocked at!!



http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football..._the_day&ns_source=facebook&ns_linkname=sport

 

[Bus-Conductor]

Players who feint to kick the ball once they have taken a run-up when taking a penalty will get booked for unsporting behaviour. Feinting in the run-up is allowed. And goalkeepers who come off their line too early will also be booked.

Eh ?

 

[THFCSPURS19]

Players who feint to kick the ball once they have taken a run-up when taking a penalty will get booked for unsporting behaviour. Feinting in the run-up is allowed. And goalkeepers who come off their line too early will also be booked.

Eh ?

So if a player stops in their run-up, it's OK, but if they pretend to kick the ball, completely messing the GK about, then it's a booking.

 

[hugrr]

Players who feint to kick the ball once they have taken a run-up when taking a penalty will get booked for unsporting behaviour. Feinting in the run-up is allowed. And goalkeepers who come off their line too early will also be booked.

Eh ?

Stop and start running maybe?

 

[hugrr]

Fair play to the BBC for using a photo of a wailing Noble for their article about Euro 2016

 

[Bus-Conductor]

So if a player stops in their run-up, it's OK, but if they pretend to kick the ball, completely messing the GK about, then it's a booking.

I think that's daft, they should stop the fainting altogether or not at all.

 

[Syn_13]

A free-kick or penalty can only be awarded while the ball is in play.

When you take a corner/free kick is the ball in play as soon as the player has kicked it? If so, what happens if the player is taking a run up and another commits a foul in the box before he's put it into play? I would've thought that would be a penalty.

 

[pffft]

"An offence against a match official will result in a direct free-kick or penalty."

It would be nice to know what constitutes "an offence against a match official". This has the potential to be hugely influential in driving out referee-crowding, harrassment etc.

Although it's probably more likely to be an attempt to stop people shooting the refs...some players are really going to have to think hard about whether it's worth popping a cap in the ref's ass when the consequence means giving away a direct free kick on the halfway line.

 

[yankspurs]

I think that's daft, they should stop the fainting altogether or not at all.

For now, it should be a booking and moved off the penalty kick IMO.

 

[NeverRed]

So if you run right up to the ball and don't kick it you get a card, ok... so what if you're booked already - presumably you go.

Does your team still have their kick or is it forfeit?

What about if it's a pen during the match vs a shootout?

If the keeper's booked and hence 2nd yellow so off, can you sub in another player during a shootout?

!

 

[CosmicHotspur]

I hope it's compulsory for match officials to attend training courses when the rules change. There's already far too much confusion and misinterpretation.

 

[Real_madyidd]

When you take a corner/free kick is the ball in play as soon as the player has kicked it? If so, what happens if the player is taking a run up and another commits a foul in the box before he's put it into play? I would've thought that would be a penalty.

Good point. Could you kick the ball out of play and then punch say John Terry in the head, then remove your boot and repeatedly bludgeon him - and only be sent off, no free kick?

 

[NeverRed]

Good point. Could you kick the ball out of play and then punch say John Terry in the head, then remove your boot and repeatedly bludgeon him - and only be sent off, no free kick?

Dele Alli take note

 

[Real_madyidd]

Law 8 - the start and restart of play
The ball no longer has to move forward at a kick-off - it just has to move for the game to start.

This is awesome. There will be a roll back and smash goal pretty quickly.

 

[Syn_13]

Law 8 - the start and restart of play
The ball no longer has to move forward at a kick-off - it just has to move for the game to start.

This is awesome. There will be a roll back and smash goal pretty quickly.

Pulis will love that.