New Rule Idea

[ManxRed]

Penalties are cruel, lets face it.

 

Given the overall tone of this last World Cup let's abolish penalties and replace them with this:

 

Each team gets five goes. A player from each team must dribble the ball from the halfway line while a defender from each team, starting on the 18 yard line, runs out and puts a half hearted tackle in. The player on the ball must go down as theatrically as possible. If he fools the ref the team get a point, if he doesn't they get no points. The player who feigns the most horrific injury (leg-break in four places, head decapitated, assassinated by man in crowd with Kalashnikov etc.) gets a bonus point. The team with the most points wins the match.

 

What do people reckon?

[Hassony]

we might as well give the next world cup to portugal now

[Tosh]

How about the defender forgets to go in "half hearted" and takes the attacker out Schumacher style...

[smithdown]

What if the defender gets his dive in first by pretending he has been elbowed out the way?

 

I think both teams should line up in the centre circle facing each other calling each other names and the last man standing and/or not crying gets to lift the trophy.

Edited July 10, 2006 by smithdown

[ManxRed]

How about the defender forgets to go in "half hearted" and takes the attacker out Schumacher style...

 

This would be acceptable. But only on Ronaldo's go.

[Gray - YPC]

A mate of mine semi-seriously said they should do the cross-bat challenge as it is more likely to create heroes than villians (you're more likely to miss than hit, unlike penalties)

[sutty]

A mate of mine semi-seriously said they should do the cross-bat challenge as it is more likely to create heroes than villians (you're more likely to miss than hit, unlike penalties)

 

 

You could be there for b*****d days.

[Spike]

ah, crossbar challenge

[oojason]

Take the penalties at the end of 90minutes - and then play the 30 minutes of extra time - at least it'll make for an interesting extra times - as one team relentlessly attacks as they lost the penalties, whilst the other defends...

[Hassony]

the winer should be decided by opta stats

[Ripley]

At the start of extra time, each time must withdraw a player, so, if no prior red cards, it is 10 a side. Then, every 5 minutes, a further player must be withdrawn if no goal has been scored.

 

Play on if scores level at 120 minutes and 4 a side.

[pipnasty]

 

Play on if scores level at 120 minutes and 4 a side.

 

...until the players start to drop like flies. And then, if no goals are still scored - back at noon the next day in the searing heat for a replay?

[surf]

Take the penalties at the end of 90minutes - and then play the 30 minutes of extra time - at least it'll make for an interesting extra times - as one team relentlessly attacks as they lost the penalties, whilst the other defends...

 

 

That's a great idea.

[Dominus Maximus]

Play sudden death... only fair way...

[mally]

give them pistols and jet packs

[Guest Gaz_J]

At the start of extra time, each time must withdraw a player, so, if no prior red cards, it is 10 a side. Then, every 5 minutes, a further player must be withdrawn if no goal has been scored.

 

Play on if scores level at 120 minutes and 4 a side.

 

Alternatively: replace the out-going player with their wife/girlf.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

headbutts. Materazzi has to go to every knockout game in the world & if it's level after 120 mins, they replace the pens with headbutting him

[_00_deathscar]

Take the penalties at the end of 90minutes - and then play the 30 minutes of extra time - at least it'll make for an interesting extra times - as one team relentlessly attacks as they lost the penalties, whilst the other defends...

 

That's actually a brilliant idea!

 

Although I love the tension in pennos

 

I guess there'd be a tension too when the ref's just added 6 minutes of injury time to be played and a shot in the LAST second whizzes past the post!