When even the managers are struggling to keep up, maybe it’s time to slow down
Take a glance through the football rulebook and there’s a glorious irony about the introductory page titled,It’s not so much a “book” these days. International Football Association Board , the body in charge of the rules of the game and arbiters of what is and isn’t allowed in it, have created a handy Laws of the Game app. Which is actually pretty good – it has a 4.3 star rating from over 2,000 reviews.
And then follows 116 pages of complex rules and regulations, full of bullet points and graphs and diagrams, and offside armpits. In the last five years they have altered 67 rules. These range from small changes, such as making language more concise to lists of bullet points redefining handball, or offside, or what constitutes deliberately playing the ball.
The year before there is “clarification that the referee tosses the coin to determine the ‘ends’ and kick-off”. Did we seriously need that clarified?In 2020-21, they added that “the goalposts and the crossbar may be a combination of the four basic shapes”. A year later it was decided: “Goalposts and crossbar must be the same shape.”
There are never-ending tweaks to rules about handball, offside, VAR, penalties, stoppage time, substitutions, fouls, goal kicks, free-kicks, throw-ins, kick-offs, corners, red cards, yellow cards. “I think there’s a lot of confusion at the moment, that’s my belief,” Postecoglou added. “The way the game is changing on the basis of technology. Why isn’t anyone speaking up about it?
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