The Dutch FA has proposed five new rule changes that could completely change the way football is played.
The KNVB presented a set of divisive rules suggestions during a meeting on Thursday and fans reacted to the potential changes online.
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Football as a whole has undergone a number of changes in recent years with regards to the way the game is refereed.
The introduction of VAR shook up English football and even saw a campaign by Nottingham Forest to end the controversial technology.
Recently, rumors began to emerge around the addition of blue cards to bases.
And now the Dutch Federation has proposed five additions to the game.
Firstly, the organization suggested that throw-ins be thrown away.
Instead, the KNVB wants players to be able to kick the ball when it goes out of play.
The second proposal would be the introduction of “Time Penalties”, also known as sin-bin.
In a similar sense to the blue card idea, sin-bins would cause players to be sent off for a period of time when they receive a card before being allowed to return to the field once the punishment has expired.
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The third idea put forward by the Dutch FA is to allow players to pass to themselves from a free kick.
Currently, players have to take a free kick to another player before they can take it themselves.
The fourth proposal is to allow “Flying Substitutions”, better known in the English game as rolling substitutions.
Popular in youth football, it would mean that a team can make as many substitutions as they want and bring players on and off the field, even if they have already been substituted.
In futsal, flying substitutions can also mean that players are substituted while the ball is still in play.
The latest rule change put forward by the Dutch FA is the idea of “net game time”.
This would represent a change in the length of a football game, likely dropping from 90 minutes to 60 minutes – something previously suggested by former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.
However, the clock stopped when the ball was not in play, which meant more football would be played during the match.
The average time the ball remains in play in a Premier League football game is just over 54 minutes.
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Fans were shocked by the crazy proposals and took to social media to react.
One wrote: “This is disgusting.”
While another added: “Why don’t we leave football alone?”
And a third joked: “Clearly the plans were drawn up in an Amsterdam cafe.”
Fortunately for English football fans who are concerned about the big changes coming from the Netherlands, it is highly unlikely that these proposals will be approved in England.
The KNVB is not a board member of the IFAB – football’s governing body.
As such, the Dutch Federation cannot present these proposals for approval by the IFAB and of the ideas presented only one, the sin bin concept, was subject to initial debate by the self-regulatory body.
Another rule that could be introduced in the near future is Arsene Wenger’s idea of a “daylight” rule for offside.
The proposed rule states that if any part of an attacker’s body that can score – head, torso or legs – is still in line with the defender, then he must be judged in play.
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