Rule changes this season

[boingy]

Referees are being told to add the exact time taken for goals and celebrations, substitutions, injuries, penalties and dismissals. Previously, a set nominal amount of time used to calculate added-on time.

A multi-ball system - which permits a match to resume immediately with another ball when the original one goes out of play - will also be used to help keep stoppages to a minimum. The EFL says this “has been proven to increase ball in-play time”.

Match officials are also being told to take “a more robust approach” when dealing with time-wasting. So in future, a yellow card will be shown to anyone delaying the restart of play or not retreating the necessary distance at a free-kick.

Injured players will also have to leave the field of play to be assessed. Exceptions to that ruling include injured goalkeepers, players from the same team who have collided and severe injury. Once play has restarted, the treated players will have to wait at least 30 seconds before being allowed back on.

Following guidance by the International Football Association Board, football’s lawmakers, the EFL have confirmed changes to the issuing of yellow and red cards around penalty kicks.

In future, as long as a player makes an attempt to play the ball or challenges for it, only a caution will be issued for conceding a penalty by denying an opponent a clear goal-scoring opportunity. A red card will be given in any other circumstance, such as holding, pushing or handball.

Finally, the EFL have again shown its commitment to keeping the game flowing by maintaining a "high threshold for penalising contact" again next season. They say officials will only penalise a player when contact has a detrimental impact on an opponent.

[Albionmad]

Let's see how long these initiatives last for. About 3 weeks I reckon.

[stargazer1962]

Supposedly, the use of towels is also banned, so back to cleaning the ball on the players shirt.

[mickd1961]

It’s the police that dictate times matches finish.

They are “on the clock” and want everything done and dusted by X time with grounds and surrounds cleared.

I give these new rules a month.

[Dubbag]

I thought most of these were already in place just not enforced like a lot of laws.

[stargazer1962]

I read today in the Metro that if 2 or more players approach the referee then the referee is instructed to yellow card one of them

[WBA1955]

Wouldn't it be easier just to stop the clock when the ball is out of play?
Only the captain allowed to speak to the ref.
These are the rules of the men's game Rugby not the children's game of football.
Maybe a sin bin,any players caught time wasting can sit on the bench for ten minutes.

[mickd1961]

Wouldn't it be easier just to stop the clock when the ball is out of play?
Only the captain allowed to speak to the ref.
These are the rules of the men's game Rugby not the children's game of football.
Maybe a sin bin,any players caught time wasting can sit on the bench for ten minutes.

Sin bin 10 minutes was used at Lye Town’s level last season Des.

Hilarious at times to watched the binned player grow even more furious and frustrated whilst sat there and then return to the pitch more angry and wound up than when he left it!🤣