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
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.
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.
Whatever his nationality, he is a cretin. All his ideas are either awful in principle or in the practical application he suggests.
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.