New Premier League Rules

[Legion]

For 2019-20

[Godfrey Brian]

Crikey I've  gone decades believing that whichever team won the toss had the choice of kicking-off or picking ends already, and now they do!

[cdbearsfan]

Mixed bag. Some sensible changes but the new handball rule will cause chaos. There is no way it will be applied consistently. What counts as a penalty when it's a Villa defender will be a world different from what counts as a penalty when it's a Man U defender at Old Trafford.

Not keen on the uncontested drop ball being given to the goalkeeper when the attacking team had reached the penalty area. Why not just give it to the attacking team on the edge of the box? Hopefully referees will have the common sense to wait till the ball has gone out of play if someone has reached the area, wherever possible.

[cdbearsfan]

Crikey I've  gone decades believing that whichever team won the toss had the choice of kicking-off or picking ends already, and now they do!

I thought that, too.

[olaftab]

I have always believed the toss was to choose ends nothing more. The toss losers get to kick off.

[dave shelley]

No.  Always the choice of ends for the winners of the toss and the losers get to kick-off.  Funny isn't it the little bits and pieces that go unnoticed?

I don't know if it's been changed but, clubs' were also obliged to supply linesmans' flags.  We all had our own so it never in my experience raised its head.  I do recall going into a club's officials dressing room and seeing flags in there but it's the only one time.

[cdbearsfan]

Does anyone still have the halfway line flags? I don't think I've ever seen them at a game but I'm sure they used to exist.

[dave shelley]

Does anyone still have the halfway line flags? I don't think I've ever seen them at a game but I'm sure they used to exist.

They did, would you believe they used to have them at the Sty, I remember seeing them there.

[cdbearsfan]

They probably had "more flags than the Villa" listed in their honours.

[andyh]

VAR 😞

[Stu]

Mixed bag. Some sensible changes but the new handball rule will cause chaos. There is no way it will be applied consistently. What counts as a penalty when it's a Villa defender will be a world different from what counts as a penalty when it's a Man U defender at Old Trafford.

Yep. Things that will apply at knackered old trafford in their favour but not anywhere else:

- the arm or hand is close to their body and "has not made their body unnaturally bigger"

- a player is falling and the ball touches their hand or arm when it is between their body and the ground to support the body - but not extended to make the body bigger

[Legion]

All down to interpretation.

[dave shelley]

All down to interpretation.

Ever thus, but now, VAR...

[Legion]

Sterilising the sport.

[UK Redsox]

“The rules, the rules, do not apply”