Tudor
Vital Football Legend
With the curtain almost drawn on the 2015/16 campaign, with a handful of Play Off games to go and most looking towards the European Championships in France fans of Manchester City for the 2016/17 campaign can look forward to a few rule tweaks to the game.
In fact you'll be introduced to them at the European Championships as they come into force on June 1.
Earlier this month the International Football Association Board - IFAB for those who like acronyms or possibly Thunderbirds? - announced the changes that had taken place to the bloated, and often stating the obvious, 22,000 odd thousand word document that governs the game.
I've only glanced the IFAB rulebook, but instructing readers that the playing surface must be 'green' if artificial and allowed, and stating that the 'ball' must be 'spherical' and of 'suitable material' I lost the next 20 minutes of my life pondering how we'd get on with kicking a concrete block around a psychedelic purple pitch.
I then stopped drinking, slept on it, and decided to spend my time more suitably the next day, instead looking at other media coverage for insights into the changes.
With some of the changes announced in April ahead of the full ratification, one of the major changes David Elleray oversaw in the recent attempt to 'simplify' the game as we know it, comes to the 'triple punishment' effect of professional fouls that deny a clear goal scoring opportunity.
As things stood in the past and this season, such instances saw a player shown a red card as the last man, he received a suspension and if in the box, a penalty was awarded.
That will all change from next month where the referee deems it to have been an accidental challenge as opposed to a professional foul (in other words cynical hack job). If the referee deems it to have been accidental collision or/and a true attempt at the ball, the offending player will now only be cautioned with the award of a penalty if applicable.
Players will however continue to be sent off for sex masochism, holding, pulling, pushing, not playing the ball or 'having the possibility' of playing the ball and for the obviously serious foul play, violent conduct or deliberate handball events.
The referee now also has the power to send players off prior to kick off for their off pitch behaviour, and those powers now kick in from the pre match pitch inspection - the obvious reference to Arsenal's Patrick Vieira and Manchester United's Roy Keane tunnel chat a number of years ago features as motivation for this particular change.
Read more: http://www.manchestercity.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=566749#ixzz49CWpTiVr
In fact you'll be introduced to them at the European Championships as they come into force on June 1.
Earlier this month the International Football Association Board - IFAB for those who like acronyms or possibly Thunderbirds? - announced the changes that had taken place to the bloated, and often stating the obvious, 22,000 odd thousand word document that governs the game.
I've only glanced the IFAB rulebook, but instructing readers that the playing surface must be 'green' if artificial and allowed, and stating that the 'ball' must be 'spherical' and of 'suitable material' I lost the next 20 minutes of my life pondering how we'd get on with kicking a concrete block around a psychedelic purple pitch.
I then stopped drinking, slept on it, and decided to spend my time more suitably the next day, instead looking at other media coverage for insights into the changes.
With some of the changes announced in April ahead of the full ratification, one of the major changes David Elleray oversaw in the recent attempt to 'simplify' the game as we know it, comes to the 'triple punishment' effect of professional fouls that deny a clear goal scoring opportunity.
As things stood in the past and this season, such instances saw a player shown a red card as the last man, he received a suspension and if in the box, a penalty was awarded.
That will all change from next month where the referee deems it to have been an accidental challenge as opposed to a professional foul (in other words cynical hack job). If the referee deems it to have been accidental collision or/and a true attempt at the ball, the offending player will now only be cautioned with the award of a penalty if applicable.
Players will however continue to be sent off for sex masochism, holding, pulling, pushing, not playing the ball or 'having the possibility' of playing the ball and for the obviously serious foul play, violent conduct or deliberate handball events.
The referee now also has the power to send players off prior to kick off for their off pitch behaviour, and those powers now kick in from the pre match pitch inspection - the obvious reference to Arsenal's Patrick Vieira and Manchester United's Roy Keane tunnel chat a number of years ago features as motivation for this particular change.
Read more: http://www.manchestercity.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=566749#ixzz49CWpTiVr
