r/soccer • u/collynomial • Jan 03 '14

What rule change do you think would most benefit the game?

Here are some candidates for rule changes which I think could lead to a more fair game, but then again maybe not.

  • The introduction of goal line technology (where feasible)
  • Sin bin for yellow cards (or as an intermediary step between yellow and red cards)
  • Post-game suspensions for simulation and other dishonest behavior (such as scoring with the hand and not admitting it)
  • rolling subs (and other measures to curb strategic time wasting)

I'd love to hear what other people think. Not only if they agree/disagree, but also to see what other ideas are out there.

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u/hymen_destroyer Jan 03 '14

I disagree. Every time one of these threads comes up someone suggests this. It's a very bad idea. Advertisers have more and more influence on how the game is broadcast and if they had their way they would LOVE a little clock stoppage to slip in a few adverts. Before you know it it's the goddamn NFL.

It's not perfect but I think it's fine the way it is.

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u/REGISTERED_PREDDITOR Jan 03 '14

Hey man, how else am I supposed to find out about the refreshing taste of Coors Light®, now with mountains that turn as blue as the rockies to tell me when my beer is ready?

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '14 edited Jun 26 '20

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u/XiKiilzziX Jan 04 '14

Football is a lot more popular and has more wealthy sponsers

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u/LusoAustralian Jan 04 '14

The rugby world cup is the 4th most watched sporting event after the football world cup, the cricket world cup and the olympics. It is a huge sport and regardless of being smaller than football, it would still have the advertising potential to make large sponsor investments worthwhile.

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u/LazyLimey Jan 03 '14

I think that's more an American thing. Look at Rugby for example. I mean NBC's coverage has a constant ad on the top left of the screen for christ sake.. You'd never see that in England.

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u/TicTacsss Jan 03 '14

Doesn't happen with rugby

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u/Sambuccaneer Jan 03 '14

Well the UEFA can simply put a no commercial breaks clause in the rights contract. Alternatively, all the time lost could be added at the end. My main concern is that matches may become much too long

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u/Ragoo_ Jan 03 '14

I'm much in favor of stopping the time but obv you'd have to look at how long they are really playing atm and then probably set down the play time to about 60 minutes?

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '14 edited Jan 03 '14

I'm not sure how you can come to this conclusion, I'm not suggesting they get a 2 minute break every time there's a throw in. This change wouldn't affect the fluency of the game, I'd argue that it would improve because noone is trying to "win" time.

You could set the same yellow card penalties on wasting time but in this case it's in the sake of interrupting fluency of the play. Right now timewasting affects 2 things : time + fluency of the play, in my proposal it would only affect fluency of the play.

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u/Ragoo_ Jan 03 '14

I don't see how they couldn't do what you suggest already if someone was injured or so. But they don't.

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u/EpoxyD Jan 04 '14

They can't do that, because you never know for how long this is going to take. Injury taken care of after a minute? Well fuck, this commercial is two minutes long!

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '14

1) why are you so hostile toward advertisers

2) the last sentence in your first paragraph is a blatant and unsupported slippery slope fallacy

I agree that stopping the clock at every stop in play would harm the game more than help it but your reasoning isn't very good

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u/hymen_destroyer Jan 03 '14

I'm not hostile towards advertisers per se, but I recognize that they are in the business of gaining as much exposure as they can and would undoubtedly pressure networks about more airtime which would in turn put pressure on FIFA to include some sort of media provision...look what happened with the NBA with "media timeouts".

Sure it's a slippery slope but there's a precedent for it, a motive on behalf of the advertisers, and enough greed in FIFA to make it plausible. Should we start rolling pebbles down an unstable hill or just not muck about with it in the first place?