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truthandlife
02 Jan 2006, 10:08 AM
A New Year's wishlist for soccer
Nick Webster / Fox Soccer Channel http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/5209212
I've been thinking about this 'beautiful game' of ours and how it could be made even more beautiful.
Let me first warn you though that the ideas I'm proposing are radical in as much as the rules of football have barely changed since they were first drawn up by the International Football Association Board in 1886.
Changes in:
Goal Size
Substitutions
Injuries
Pitch
Yellow Cards & Red Cards
Length of the Match
Free Kicks
Video Replay
Prenn
02 Jan 2006, 10:47 AM
Why doesn't he just request a change of ball shape, rules and kits and call the game pointy ball?
comme
02 Jan 2006, 10:47 AM
Please, someone kill me.
Prenn
02 Jan 2006, 10:51 AM
I'm surprised he didn't suggest scrapping the offside rule.
johno
02 Jan 2006, 10:54 AM
I am not a violent person, but if I ever saw this Nick Webster in real life I would kick him in the nuts.
And then tell him I've suggested a rule change for Assault. The assaulted party had no rights whatsoever so long as he was a complete and total twat. Which obviously, this idiot is.
Teso Dos Bichos
02 Jan 2006, 12:02 PM
And people wonder why Yanks get a bad rep...
tpmazembe
02 Jan 2006, 01:06 PM
And people wonder why Yanks get a bad rep...I thought Nick Webster was British. Isn't he?
Either way, bad ideas.
If current rules were just rigourously applied - especially vis-a-vis all the "professional" fouls - it would open up the game and reward offensive enterprise (what he seems to be trying to encourage). The freekick wall distance is easily remedied, but refs don't want to sanction offenders for supposedly minor offenses.
The limitless substitutions would kill the game IMO.
Teso Dos Bichos
02 Jan 2006, 01:09 PM
I honestly don't know. :eek: :o :(
dannytoone
02 Jan 2006, 01:18 PM
I do like the video replay idea...I absolutely hate bad calls, even when they go in my favor.
Jabinho
02 Jan 2006, 01:23 PM
I thought Nick Webster was British. Isn't he?
Yes he is British..
Teso Dos Bichos
02 Jan 2006, 01:42 PM
No, he must be English. Big difference.
comme
02 Jan 2006, 01:43 PM
Whatever his nationality, he is a cretin.
All his ideas are either awful in principle or in the practical application he suggests.
Jabinho
02 Jan 2006, 01:59 PM
Whatever his nationality, he is a cretin.
cretin: /kret´in/, /kree´tn/, n.
Congenital loser; an obnoxious person; someone who can't do anything right. It has been observed that many American hackers tend to favor the British pronunciation /kret´in/ over standard American /kree´tn/; it is thought this may be due to the insidious phonetic influence of Monty Python's Flying Circus.