At its Annual Business Meeting (ABM) held in London today, which was chaired by Ian Maxwell, Chief Executive of the Scottish Football Association, The IFAB focused on measures to improve participant behaviour in football and increase respect for match officials. Read more: https://www.theifab.com/news/ifab-a...3ZEd8WTWmeBXOWlCK8W-NQ6azG68GqOKVGrTPlpdjOepU Thought I'd post IFAB related news here. Let me know if there's another place it should rather be.
how many days is it going to be before someone cautions a non-captain player for speaking to them cause a referee just decided to enforce this news immediately?
"successful trial involving match officials wearing body cameras at grassroots level" Interesting and troubling From the "Principles" The equipment will be provided by the national FA and will remain the property of the national FA Footage will only be used by the national FA’s discipline departments as supporting evidence, where deemed necessary and appropriate All footage must be destroyed within 60 days and must not be stored by the national FA beyond that time The First - the US has > 13 million soccer players - the national FA will never afford this. The Second - unless subpoenaed by an outside agent The Third - is possibly illegal if evidence of a crime.
"The ABM discussed potential strategies to address the time lost in matches and tactics aimed at disrupting the game’s tempo, including in relation to the six-second restriction for goalkeepers, delaying restarts and managing injuries." Is there anything that can be done about the nonsense practice of keepers catching a routine ball near the end of the match and then diving to the ground to "secure" the ball? It is a legal play but also time-wasting.
That’s an interesting coincidence that the MLS handball thing happened this weekend and now IFAB is discussing something regarding penalty kick handballs, although I’m not exactly sure what the wording here means they would consider doing “sanction the same way as fouls”
I've no suggestions for professional (or competent amateur) games. For my youth games, when the keeper catches and then dives (as you describe), I've been known to shout "KEEPER: your six seconds have started."
If implemented, The sin bin is going to be very controversial. It’s going to be yet another subjective referee decision that can have a major effect on the game. People seem to be behind reducing the referee crowding and want only the captain to talk, but as soon as a player gets a dissent yellow card and his team plays down for 5-10 minutes, they will rage about how thin skinned the ref is and how this is ruining the game. And like people have said about VAR reviewing individual yellow cards to rescind/apply them, this will lead to lots of anger when a ref doesn’t give a yellow card that “should” have been because the team should be playing down
In college there is. Stop the game for an injury, stop the clock. Call the trainer. The only draw back now is you have to do the ball. It used to be an ifk. If you did it 1x and told the GK when you went to check on his "wellbeing" that you're going to assume he is injured anytime he falls to the ground like this unnecessarily. They always stop because they don't get what they want out of it. In IFAB... you just have to manage it and suggest the 6 seconds could come into play. Let's send IFAB a digest of our 6 second discussion from the other thread.
If you are this prescient, can you let me know what the Powerball numbers will be tomorrow night and who will win the Super Bowl this year? Thanks in advance!
Time starts when possession is gained not when the keeper decides to fall on it or standup. If a referee wants to go down the path of enforcing time wasting on a keeper, they technically have the tools.
Yeah, but without pushed down support from the top, a ref can’t realistically go on a crusade to to do that. Even with the blatant disregard GKs have for the rule, I can only think of one time ever that it is has been called in a professional game (USWNT v Canada) and that was what, a dozen years ago? There doesn’t necessaril Have to be a Law change, but there certainly has to be some guidance before Rs can realistically use the tool at most levels.
I assume this refers to the suggestion that I think came from UEFA to distinguish DOGSO-H offenses that are done "deliberately and intentionally" (send-off) from those that are not (caution). I am happy to be corrected on this.
The quotes from MLS were pretty generic but The Atheltic said MLS could be the first pro league to trial sin bins. https://theathletic.com/5096627/2023/11/29/sin-bins-mls-ifab-league-soccer/
Oh good. Look, MLS Next PRO, I get. Fine. Being the experimental guinea pig for IFAB/FIFA ideas as an erstwhile "top" first division is so dumb. It reeks of 1998. Maybe this comes through eventually. But this isn't VAR. There's fait accompli. MLS will look silly if it does this and it disappears, which I think is quite possible.
If I were the Emperor of Soccer, I’d trial this in MLS Next Pro and USL Leagues One and Two. I wouldn’t want to see it at either of the top levels in the respective “pyramids”, but I do want to see how it would work in practice at games higher than youth or amateur games. MAYBE if people got ambitious, it would also be in the Open Cup so we could see USLC and MLS teams play in games. If we REALLY wanted to get ambitious, how about Leagues Cup since they already tried out the extra point for a shootout win?
I’d say speculative more than generic. Didn’t seem to be much to support the “could be” then the timing of when the MLS season starts.
Whose decision is this? I'd think that MLS would have to volunteer to do it as opposed to them being told. Then it comes down to what they get for doing it. And for record, I think there are some advantages worth trying this out, but I hate the 'sin bin'. It feels like a 4th grader named it to me. But I'm getting old so my opinion on naming things is not overly relevant.
That would explain the shortness and rhyming. And, no, I don't have a better name right now. Is it not better to just complain without solutions?