The game we all love - what would you change?

Thats not an issue in the MLS as that is already in the rules. If a player is down for something like 15 seconds then the game is immediately stopped by the ref and the physio is automatically called for as it is therefore by default assumed to be a serious injury.

Thus starting the 10vs11 (for 2 minutes) or immediate substitution. Players then have no choice but to get the fcuk up ASAP or be substituted due to "injury". The miraculous recovery would have to be immediate within the 15 seconds.

I believe it was classed and marketed as improving player health and welfare as the 15 second limit meant an injured player would rapidly recieve the medical attention they need ASAP. The whole punishing fake injuries was just a side effect.

• 1) VAR to be replaced by challenges. Limited to 4 challenges per game/max 3 challenges per half for each team. Referee gives a decision initially, a challenge is taken by the team manager/coach. 90 seconds max per challenge review. If the challenge is unsuccessful, on-field decision stands.

2) Automated offside/goal line technology to be used to determine offside/goal, no VAR. With regard to offside, the linesman makes a decision by either leaving the flag up or down to indicate an offside or not. An offside decision under review should be based on the previous 20 seconds of play prior to the scoring of the goal only, and should take no more than 60 seconds to complete.

3) Offside rule to change so (A) that the entirety of the player has to be ahead of the 2nd last defender (including goalie) and (B) no part of the arm can be considered as part of an offside position.

4) Introduce a Sin-bin for the following criteria; two yellow cards / professional foul / abuse of officials / excessive handbags / diving / 5 personal fouls per game. A sin-bin to be denoted by the flashing of a blue card. Every two sin-binnings picked up by a player would see that players receive a two match ban.

5) Retrospective one match ban for diving offences, with a three match ban for a third offence within two years.

6) A 40 second limit on dead balls (unless referee stops play for substitutes/injury).

7) Players lying down for more than 20 seconds have to leave the field and cannot return until two full phases of play (ie, the ball goes dead twice) are completed, and can only re-enter play in the technical area.

8) In tournament football, due to the number of games in rapid succession, extra time to last 10 minutes a half instead of 15.

9) Any challenge of a handball incident is to be judged at regular speed, and not slow motion, to ensure a more accurate portrayal of the incident.

10) Simultaneous salary/transfer caps throughout the sport. Salary caps would only apply to collective salaries of a registered first team. It would only apply to basic salary paid by the club, what a player earns in endorsements/bonuses would not be considered. Transfer caps would be limited to €25m per transfer, and limited to €150m a year per club.

11) No yellow cards for taking off jerseys. They've scored a goal, let them celebrate.

Listening to Football ramble earlier and they were speaking about rule changes like this thread. One e mail suggested allowing players to fight like in ice hockey. Then we'd see who's tough. It would be interesting. We'd find out who are the tough guys then😉

I like all of those, except the play off for tied teams. Relatedly, I’d stop ranking tied teams based on H2H. Your position should be based on all games you’ve played, not just those against one particular rival

If a defending team hoofs the ball out for a throw-in in their own half, the attacking team can choose to take a throw in or a free kick from the line. Defenders should be able to defend and it wastes too much time when teams hoof it out.

The amount of press conferences managers have to do

Up to customers to not pay for sky,tnt, Amazon etc subscriptions, then the broadcasters wouldn't be so money hungry with the amount of interviews being done.

Its all top club focused anyway, don't see or hear the likes of the lower clubs getting any time on the broadcasters channels with these things.

Would be better all round if they did.

Get one of those boxes, pay 50e for the year and you have access to all of them channels as well as ppv.

The biggest problem with the game is the constant time wasting. The last 10 minutes of virtually every game now is a show of time wasting, extra-slow substitutions, goalies lying on the ball for up to 30 seconds and so on.

It has become increasingly common for teams to even time waste in the first half.

I would bring in a rule like "passive play" in handball, whereby if a team is seen to not be even trying to score the ref warns them. They then have X number of passes or seconds in which to shoot, otherwise they lose the ball. This covers things like keeping the ball in the corner for ages.

I'd have no issue shortening the game to 80 minutes if needed, if it meant we are cutting out 10 minutes of time wasting.

I'd ban this

Hitting a free kick under a jumping wall was such a rare spectacle, I hate that it's been almost entirely eliminated by this.

100% on the last point. The keeper a yellow card in the 95th minute for time wasting is basically no punishment at all.

You can't have the ref dictating tactics to players. Keeping the ball is a perfectly legitimate tactic. Managers job is to win games not shoot every few minutes to entertain the fans that's baffling. If you want to get rid of timewastng you have 2X30 minute halfs with the clock stopping anytime the ball goes out of play.

I wouldn't mind seeing some changes to the if it means upping the flow of the game a bit.

• Games to be reduced to 80 minutes, extra time to 20 minutes.
• Teams have 30 seconds to use the ball after it goes dead, or concede possession to the opposition.
• A player on the ground for more than 20 seconds has to leave the field for two full phases of play to have his injury assessed, and can only return when the ball is dead.
• VAR review limited to 90 seconds in duration.

Shouldn't be too much of problem with the amount of balls placed around the field these days, especially at the higher level.

Or you could start fining clubs for the behaviour of their supporters.