Changes In Football thread

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To try and stop the strategic goalkeeper injury palava, a new law amendment is coming in for the PL & FL.

Under the new regulations, once the referee has signaled for medical staff to treat a goalkeeper, that team’s manager has 10 seconds to tell the fourth official which outfield player will be removed from the match for one minute after play is resumed. If no player is chosen in time, the captain is removed. If the goalkeeper is also the captain, then the outfield player who had been nominated to speak to the referee ahead of the game is the one binned.

Anyone think this is starting to get silly? If an injury is valid just why should that team be penalised further? It would make more sense introduce a qualified medical professional to work alongside the officials and make a judgement call on whether an injury is valid and the team’s physio is required or not.

It seems a bit crazy that if a goalie goes down, then another player has to go off for a minute but if a CB goes off they are just off until the ref calls them back on. So just make it consistent, once treatment is complete, a nominated player goes off and is called back at the next break of play/at refs discretion but if the treatment follows a yellow/red card challenge, no player needs to leave the field.