Emi beware?

[SaddVillan]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/jul/28/premier-league-referees-to-add-on-time-lost-for-goal-celebrations-this-season?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

The 2 hour match has arrived - be prepared to adjust your tavel arrangements.

Excessive goal celebrations - the solution is simple.
The team that's conceded walks the ball up to the centre spot. The ref blows his whistle and play restarts. If the team that's scored is still celebrating behind the goal, then tough shit.

[eamonn]

Great name for a song. Emi Beware.

[chrisw1]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/jul/28/premier-league-referees-to-add-on-time-lost-for-goal-celebrations-this-season?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

The 2 hour match has arrived - be prepared to adjust your tavel arrangements.

Excessive goal celebrations - the solution is simple.
The team that's conceded walks the ball up to the centre spot. The ref blows his whistle and play restarts. If the team that's scored is still celebrating behind the goal, then tough shit.

That would lead to no celebrations at all.  Is that what we want?

[eamonn]

Just make it a 60 minute game with a stopped clock.

[chrisw1]

Other changes will involve players receiving treatment off the field whenever possible to promote player safety and deter teams from slowing the game. Exceptions include when a goalkeeper is injured or if players from the same team have collided.

In circumstances where a player declines medical assistance, a teammate perceived to then purposely delay the restart will be cautioned. Referees have been reminded to book players who fail to respect the required distance at free-kicks.

This is all good stuff, although I don't know how they propose to get players off the field for treatment when they're feigning a life-threating injury.

[SaddVillan]

Has anybody else seen the irony of the authorities want8ng to speed the game up, when VAR does the exact opposite?

[London Villan]

Isn't the clock stopped for goals celebrations as you have to kick off again?

[UK Redsox]

It'll be like after the world cup; a couple of weeks of proper added time and then back to normal

[Risso]

It'll be like after the world cup; a couple of weeks of proper added time and then back to normal

If Liverpool or Man U are 1-0 down to us or Brighton, it'll be 8-10 minutes of injury time. Scores the other way round, then the usual 2 or 3 minutes will more than suffice.

[Brazilian Villain]

Great name for a song. Emi Beware.

By Emi 'n 'em?

[OCD]

Or in the case of last season's Liverpool-Villa game, as much time as necessary.

[Flamingo Lane]

I'd really like to see some or other rule introduced to stop the introduction of substitutes being used purely to wind down the clock or slow a game down in the closing minutes (and very often the closing seconds!) of a game.

[AV84]

Is there  a reason they don't just do what they do in rugby and stop the clock when the ball isn't in play? Rugby lends itself more to stopages, I know, but it seems a very obvious solution.

[chrisw1]

Is there  a reason they don't just do what they do in rugby and stop the clock when the ball isn't in play? Rugby lends itself more to stopages, I know, but it seems a very obvious solution.

Good question.

In rugby the clock stops for injuries, substitutions, and video ref.  I think that would work well in football.  It doesn't stop for scrums, lineouts, penalties freekicks, a restart after a team scores or other natural stoppages in game play.  The ref can also stop the clock discretionally - eg to deal with a discipline matters etc.  It's therefore not quite the clock stopping approach some advocate for football.

[Drummond]

Other changes will involve players receiving treatment off the field whenever possible to promote player safety and deter teams from slowing the game. Exceptions include when a goalkeeper is injured or if players from the same team have collided.

In circumstances where a player declines medical assistance, a teammate perceived to then purposely delay the restart will be cautioned. Referees have been reminded to book players who fail to respect the required distance at free-kicks.

This is all good stuff, although I don't know how they propose to get players off the field for treatment when they're feigning a life-threating injury.

That's shit. We'll have players running into each other to waste time and have a breather. IF you snap an opponents legs it's tough shit they have to get off the pitch!