Lets ruin football

[Zoob]

Just seen something on Sky Sports news about some proposed ideas that Fifa have come up with.

 

this article covers some of them

 

extending half time for 5 minues, under the false guise of 'giving players more time to recover' is an absolute joke. In any case, half time is already normally 15-20 minutes long. if they officially extend it to 20 mins, we're going to be getting 20-25 mins of half time just so more advertising time can be sold.

 

How about canning so much pointless international football so that players can get more of a rest?

 

They're also going to be discussing Sin bins. The idea is terrifying - Man U players will get away with murder, and the other team will be down to 7 players for 10 minutes. And in other matches I think it will just result in dull football, teams with a player down just defending, and killing the game.

 

And the one useful thing on the agenda - goal line technology - will be discussed, but not voted on. bunch of idiots.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

sin bins - an excellent way of inviting more controversy & less consistency

[Cam]

The proposals aren't put forward in the hope they'll be accepted. FIFA has a committee which spends all year being paid (plus huge expenses!) to stay in posh hotels and watch all the big games around the world with the remit of occasionally suggesting changes to 'make the game better'.

 

They have to come up with stuff or the game is deemed "perfect" and their meal-ticket is taken away.

 

As sammya would say... it's the equivalent of being paid to sleep with the FHM Top 100 and the next year saying "I need to do it again and try different positions".

[Maldini]

Just seen something on Sky Sports news about some proposed ideas that Fifa have come up with.

 

this article covers some of them

 

extending half time for 5 minues, under the false guise of 'giving players more time to recover' is an absolute joke. In any case, half time is already normally 15-20 minutes long. if they officially extend it to 20 mins, we're going to be getting 20-25 mins of half time just so more advertising time can be sold.

 

It would be at the referee's discretion, not a mandatory 20 minute break. I think the orimary reason it's even on the agenda is because of some European grounds where the changing rooms are literally half a mile's walk.

 

They're also going to be discussing Sin bins. The idea is terrifying - Man U players will get away with murder, and the other team will be down to 7 players for 10 minutes. And in other matches I think it will just result in dull football, teams with a player down just defending, and killing the game.

 

And the one useful thing on the agenda - goal line technology - will be discussed, but not voted on. bunch of idiots.

 

Sin bins are only being discussed as well.

[Raj]

some European grounds where the changing rooms are literally half a mile's walk.

 

do you mean Fulham's trailers?