The English FA are going to experiment with sin bins next season in amateur and youth leagues. A player who would normally get a yellow card for dissent will instead sit out for 10 minutes. How many times has a team had a player sent off and it has not made a difference? Ten minutes? Ha!
The other experiment is changing the penalty taking order in shoot-outs. ABBA are not making a comeback but it is the change from the ABAB penalty format. Instead of Team A followed by Team B, then Team A and Team B again the suggestion is to have Team A start, followed by Team B taking 2 penalties.
See? This is another reason I love football. You can argue about these dumb, meaningless rule changes, done maybe just for the sake of change. It's entertaining in it's uselessness and it doesn't affect anybody's lives significantly.
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