Referees to cut down on time wasters

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English Football League referees will be told to increase their threshold of fouls, cut down on time wasting and ensure player behaviour does not overstep the mark ahead of the new season.

The PA news agency understands the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL), the governing body of match officials in England, is committed to making the EFL a better product for the forthcoming campaign, which gets under way this weekend.

It has worked with clubs, the EFL, the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) and League Managers Association (LMA) to ensure the key decisions made are acceptable to everyone in the game.

Officials have been instructed to adopt a higher threshold for penalising contact in challenges, taking into account how much contact there was, the consequences of it and what the attacking player’s motivation was. They will also be more vigilant of sustained holding at set-pieces.

After the 2021-22 campaign saw less playing time than ever before, referees will also be more proactive in curbing time-wasting and will be prepared to sanction players early on in the game.Participation behaviour will also be strongly managed to ensure incidents of dissent and other poor behaviour are stamped out.

As well as the introduction of five substitutions this season, there is also a minor law change which sees goalkeepers now allowed to have one foot behind the goalline when facing a penalty.

Although last season’s play-off finals at Wembley had VAR, the decision-review system will not be in place for the forthcoming campaign.The PGMOL is on a FIFA Working Group to help develop ‘VAR Light’ and its possible use, and that would be offered to the EFL if collectively the clubs in each division vote to implement it.
 
One thing I noticed from England womens games is how much more time the ball is in play for than in the Championship.

Much less time wasting at throw ins, goal
kicks.

Lee Nicholls the goalie at Huddersfield was booked 6 times for timewasting last season. How much time must he have wasted given the latitude refs give goalies?

Refs in the Championship need to dish out yellow cards far quicker, and the EFL need to stick to their guns when the inevitable complaints come from managers
 
problem is - every single referee will apply the guidelines arbitrarily the same way they currently do on everything from time wasting to what they consider to be dangerous play. How many refs implement the six second rule for goalkeepers, which has been the rule for five or six years now.

i think the professional game needs separate time keepers. every time the ball goes out of play or a stop for a free kick, there is an allowance for time to take, ie 15 seconds for a throw in, 30- 40 seconds for a corner, or a free kick around the penalty area. Once the time limit is reached the clock stops and only starts again when the ball comes back into play. I would have said that this is a much simpler system than giving what are usually fairly crappy officials further guidelines to arbitrarily enforce
 
TSSeasider said:
Maxwell has mastered the slow run; he could walk quicker, but looks like he's running and is a brilliant time waster. I think it's his best asset as a goalie.
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Absolutely agree. He is world class at it.

Doesn’t mean it’s good for the game if every goalie in the league does it and gets away with it though.. at the end of the day we pay money to watch football not goalies “managing the game” - for every Maxwell there’s 23 other goalies in the league doing exactly the same thing..
 
Employ the referees of the Women's Euro competition to apply the letter of the law to time-wasting, diving and rolling around like an extra in a bad soap, etc.. That'll sort it! 🤣

All the old boy Premier ref brigade have lost the respect of the players.
 
When they adopted the 6 second rule the whole stadium would do the countdown. Goalie still stretched it but only a couple of seconds.

Not hard to enforce on all throw ins, goalkicks, even free kicks etc
Crowd will let the ref know.
 
hampshire_exile said:
One thing I noticed from England womens games is how much more time the ball is in play for than in the Championship.

Much less time wasting at throw ins, goal
kicks.

Lee Nicholls the goalie at Huddersfield was booked 6 times for timewasting last season. How much time must he have wasted given the latitude refs give goalies?

Refs in the Championship need to dish out yellow cards far quicker, and the EFL need to stick to their guns when the inevitable complaints come from managers
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does the 6 second rule still apply with goal keepers? and if so why do they not use it.
a free kick would be better than just a booking
 
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