Post by Dave on Aug 10, 2008 13:16:06 GMT
Well ever since I have been watching football, those in power, have always wanted to play around with the rules.
What was once seen as a fair tackle, could now result in a red card. The offside rule changed so many times, no one knows what it really is anymore.
Goal keepers could only bounce the ball so many times, then take only so many steps, the back pass rule changed and gone are the days when you could knock the keeper in with the ball and it would be a goal. You can't go near them now.
The biggest rule change may have been the points awarded for a win. It was two for a win and one for a draw. So you never heard then what you hear today, all this two points dropped talk.
In fact it was felt the way to get promotion was to win your home games and draw your away games.I believe like many rule changes, it was done to encourage teams to always try and play for the win. Having a bigger points gap between winning and drawing, should make teams, only really try to get all three points.
Does it really work? well I'm not so sure, how many times do we watch games, where away teams, set up the team, to play for a draw. So should we just go back to the old system, those 90 Min's goals we seem to concede, would not seem so costly, as they do now.
What was once seen as a fair tackle, could now result in a red card. The offside rule changed so many times, no one knows what it really is anymore.
Goal keepers could only bounce the ball so many times, then take only so many steps, the back pass rule changed and gone are the days when you could knock the keeper in with the ball and it would be a goal. You can't go near them now.
The biggest rule change may have been the points awarded for a win. It was two for a win and one for a draw. So you never heard then what you hear today, all this two points dropped talk.
In fact it was felt the way to get promotion was to win your home games and draw your away games.I believe like many rule changes, it was done to encourage teams to always try and play for the win. Having a bigger points gap between winning and drawing, should make teams, only really try to get all three points.
Does it really work? well I'm not so sure, how many times do we watch games, where away teams, set up the team, to play for a draw. So should we just go back to the old system, those 90 Min's goals we seem to concede, would not seem so costly, as they do now.
