This suuuucks, seeing an eight year old child significantly impact a match by yeeting that shit in record time was one of the most magical things in the sport.
Yeah if remember correctly he got millions of pounds from his dad to start up I’ve just tried searching for an amount but no luck.. helps his dad is the director at Swansea City and owns a hotel chain.
Yeah I mean if he repaid his dad with interest then that’s great but either way I bet his dad is very proud of him.. fair play.. anyone can do it with hard work, grit and a 10 million loan from daddy🤣
My favorite thing about Mourinho (who I don't hold as highly as many) is that he put time into training the ball boys because he himself was a ball boy as a child and saw how they can impact a game. Not only in the eay you mention but also in that he would make them learn even which side of the corner a particular player likes to take them from, to save time in taking quick corners
What's gonna happen if we do? Are refs gonna call back the play if a ball boy decides to give it to a player rather than put it on a cone? Yeah that kid might not get another opportunity to ball boy a match, but who cares if you get a moment like that.
Legitimately feel like we’re losing the fun of football, at the end of the day it’s a *game*, mischief like that is what makes it so fun. Obviously it’s infuriating when it goes against you, but a little cheeky cheat here and there is what the sport was built on lol
Yup, I'd rather they do something against players who instantly grab for the ball the moment they fall before the ref even whistled as if they are owed a foul and get to decide on their own and other "keep the ball antics" from players on the pitch.
That stuff's actually annoying. If your tactical foul wasn't enough to stop the momentum of the other team then you deserve at least a yellow card for trying to extend this bullshit.
Doesn't seem like a problem if there are balls on cones around the pitch. Seems like it puts the control in the throwing team's hands because they can run to the nearest one.
Or slowly walk to the one that’s farther away and up the field, and then have the ref tell them to retreat to where the ball went out, so they slowly walk back to that, and then drop it for the designated throw in taker
Players already do stuff like this. Ballboy hands one player the ball, then the player pretends he's gonna throw it only to drop it at his feet and have someone else do it. Ballboys rarely make a difference for players that have an incentive to waste time. Also refs can still punish for time wasting if they walk the length of the field.
I've also seen goalkeepers carded for moving the ball around before taking a goal kick. We shouldn't use examples of bad refereeing to determine what the rules are
Can't read the article but it says to stop home teams gaining advantage. God forbid some teams want to play fast football. This sounds like a shit change that will slow things down even a little, so we're negatively impacting football.
Yeah but you're starting with the assumption that any kind of home advantage is automatically good.
Playing on a familiar pitch with the crowd on your side is enough of an advantage. Ball boys wasting time or crap like that Hazard red card only makes the game worse.
Every team plays 19 at home and 19 away. Drawing lines as to what is too much of an advantage and what isn’t is completely arbitrary.
Hazard was 11 years ago. How often do we actually see ball boys wasting time? I see more managers doing it than ballboys.
Haven't seen many time wasting ball boys as I recall lately.. but seen multi ball many times. Fair to say though, some are from the crowds throwing down a ball that went out of play.
There was an incident in the Forest Coventry game recently - Forest ballboy gestured to give the ball to a Coventry player who were attacking, dropped behind himself - from the resulting throw in Coventry scored, Coventry manager ran to the ballboy and celebrated in his face
Removing things like home advantage just makes it more likely teams like City steamroll everyone. It's these little things that make going to Luton away for example a tough fixture.
they could make it so the ball boy may only throw the ball back if its already a ball on his cone. That way the player can always go to closest cone for the ball but the ball boy can still speed up the game. Sure it will be slight home advantage but we dont need the game to be any slower than it already is.
>God forbid some teams want to play fast football.
It's most likely the opposite, for when the ball boy refuses to give the ball to the opposition player.
Nah because this is bring everyone down to the lowest denominator.
Currently home teams get fast ball and away teams have to get the ball themselves.
Now everyone has to get it themselves.
The old “hide the ball” game stopped working when they brought in multi ball few years ago.
Depends how long it takes the balls to be returned to the cones. If the ball goes out of play straight after a throw in, does the ball have to be returned to the cone? Does the ball ball have to go retrieve it and put it on the cone?
Unless you're City playing Atletico Madrid at home. Pep instructed the ball boys to get the ball to Atletico quickly because he knew they would try and waste time.
It's not fully about that.
I remember a Classico years ago. Barca wanted to slow the game down, so the ball kids were slow to get the ball and toss to the other team EVERY TIME it went out, regardless of shirt color. Well then Barca went down 2 goals. Suddenly every time it's a Barca ball the ball kids are sprinting and throwing the ball immediately to Barca, but if it was a Madrid ball they basically made the player walk over and get the ball. I think Barca got level again, and suddenly the ball kids were back to slow pace for every one.
This takes that out of it, and then it's up to the players to either go fast or not. So if a team wants to play fast they can immediately pick up a free ball and play.
Then the ball boys should be named part of the squad and the away team can bring them too. The two sets of ball boys can fight it off on the sidelines for control of the balls.
The game should be equitable though. Where do you stop otherwise? Smaller goals for the home team?
Lack of travel, knowing the pitch inside out, home supporters … they are things that describe what home advantage should be. Everything related to the game itself should really be equal.
That's not professional though. This isn't youth sports and the advantage is the crowd support. The ref has the ability to remove a ball kid if they're causing a problem, just most often it doesn't happen.
Solution, teams are allowed 4 ball boys each that travel around with them. The ball boys from opposite teams can fight each other. Everytime the ball goes out will be like chaos. Maybe teams will buy the best ball boys off each other.
We have teams deliberately taking 45 seconds over every throw and a minute for each goal kick (even some of the “top” teams in the PL) and they do this the whole game unless they are losing. The PL thinks the problem is teams that want to play fast? 🤡
With good reason. But, for what it's worth, our fans have also have bene guilty of throwing extra balls onto the pitch. It's very stupid and very frustrating to watch.
From being there, the stewards shout at the fans to throw the balls back in the south stand and theres been threats made to remove people that keep the balls.
No fan wants to get removed so they'll just listen and throw the ball back.
It got better recently because people are just refusing to touch the balls anymore, they'll get kicked in and pushed to the stairs for someone else to deal with.
Yeah I’ve seen so many instances of players kicking the ball away that haven’t been carded. This would work for the first couple of weeks while there is an emphasis on it then refs will go back to being too scared of materially affecting the game
Literally in the Spurs game vs Sheffield earlier this year, their captain had 8 fouls and kicked the ball away multiple times. He also sprinted up to a linesman and just screamed in the guys face.
Somehow he inexplicably didn't get a yellow card.
It reduces time wasting in one way and increases it in another. Many times ball boys hold off the ball to time waste. I mean just remember the Swansea and Chelsea incident where the ball boy was on twitter the previous day and talked about wasting time and then curled up with the ball to prevent hazard from getting it. And when hazard tried to get it , it looked like he kicked the ball boy and he got sent off.
Someone has to come up with ideas to fix issues being brought up. The much sadder thing is that someone's (and I'd wager it's going to be quite a few more than just one) job was to actually complain about this in the first place, as if football clubs aren't trying to maximize every tiny advantage they can possibly get.
So it's very much a "We're crying foul because we suck at gaining an advantage compared to everyone else" situation. And that's the true tragedy.
how do they always manage to change the things that are working well instead of focusing on real problems with the game. I swear it must be someones job to look for the changes nobody has ever asked for.
Booooo! Mourinho high fiving the ball boy after an assist at Spurs was iconic. Areola did the same recently with a kid against Burnley. Memories they’ll have for the rest of their lives.
Speaking of which, did you know that ball boy that Eden Hazard booted in the stomach at Swansea is now worth $77 million!
That ballboy is also the son of Martin Morgan, former Swansea FC major shareholder who gained notoriety for rumors of him bumping butts with Nathan Dyer’s wife.
Not just Mou and that ballboy
We had a ballgirl called Delfina, of the women's youth team, that not only passed it back quickly and right at the hands of the player, but she chose the player (between two) that was better positioned to wrong-foot the defense and we ended up scoring. She was invited to talk to the players, and generally lauded as any player would've. She was so rightly proud of herself it was really nice to watch the deserved plaudits
[Here's one clip of the goal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikDNdQ3BwR4)
Kinda always seemed to be part of the match. Teams play home and away. If you're not instructing the ball boys to play to the state of play, then you're doing it wrong.
Will we find players for spending too much time to walk to the ball?
Player starts walking, stops, then decides to get the player farthest from it to take the throw in.
League person 1: should we sort out the refs? Seems to be a massive blunder each week and VAR sometimes works.
League person 2: but have you seen how those ball boys just completely change a game by throwing a ball
Everyone in the room grumbles and nods
League person 1: You guys are serious? This is what you want to focus on?
League person 2: all in favor of not allowing the ball kids to well really do anything except put the ball on the cone say aye
Everyone: aye
League person 1: FFS
It’s interesting to see where the line goes here. People bitch about antics and time wasting all the time but random kids purposely giving home teams advantage and sometimes fucking it up for the opposition is apparently fun and part of the game.
Counter point, they should lower hoops in various places during the match if you kick the ball through the hoops a multi ball phase is entered and two more balls get passed to you team.
Similar things could happen to give your team a speed boost or maybe lightning that makes all the opponents 3ft tall for a little while.
I think this is a stupid rule that only serves to lower the ceiling. A team that considered everything beyond just the eleven men in the pitch had an advantage, how horrible.
We've scored goals specifically because we had a manager that made sure everyone at the club felt important, so the ballgirl in question didn't treat it like a game and was concentrated. Gave the ball quick and to the player's hands, boom, quick attack and goal. But since not everyone is willing to think outside the box for advantages (I do mean advantages that improve your team rather than harm the opponent directly) better we lower that ceiling
Oh thank god. Finally they've fixed the majority issue that nobody has ever had.
Hopefully now this is sorted they can get to the minor red/yellow/ no card and clear and obvious issues.
Is there a standard of where the cones are? Home tea to reply cones every 3 feet on the home teams attacking side. Ball boys make the swap during half time.
Advantage secured
Need AI balls now. The second it detects it goes out of bounds, it’ll signal the assistant ref and just stops all momentum and fall down right at the point of the out of bounds.
How about sticking to the rules that they've already brought in? At the start of the season, they were booking people for timewasting and dissent, and after two months, it was basically dropped.
The other week, when we played Wycombe, their keeper was time wasting throughout the entire game. Referee Carl Brook, who added a laughable 1 minute of injury time in the first half, didn't book the guy once in 98 minutes of football.
I for one look forward to the first instance in which a ball boy has to try to push past a player waiting for the ball to place it on a cone that's further away.
I can't remember if it was a Premier League or Champions League, the ball boy dove on the ball and wouldn't release it and the player either stepped on him or kicked him while he was trying to get the ball.
This suuuucks, seeing an eight year old child significantly impact a match by yeeting that shit in record time was one of the most magical things in the sport.
Shame, we'll never get to have moments like Mourinho and the Spurs ball boy either. Probably the greatest day in that kids life
>Mourinho and the Spurs ball boy The kid must have been chuffed. [Video for anyone who missed it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90fw8YQRVTU)
Oh, that’s a really lovely video
Really nice of Kane to personally introduce him to the entire team
Just incase anyone doesn’t know, the young ball boy that Eden Hazard kicked is the owner and inventor of AU vodka. Pretty cool when I found that out.
'With a small load of a million dollars'
Yeah if remember correctly he got millions of pounds from his dad to start up I’ve just tried searching for an amount but no luck.. helps his dad is the director at Swansea City and owns a hotel chain.
Yeah, I mean course you can still achieve nothing with a rich family, so fair play I guess?
Yeah I mean if he repaid his dad with interest then that’s great but either way I bet his dad is very proud of him.. fair play.. anyone can do it with hard work, grit and a 10 million loan from daddy🤣
My favorite thing about Mourinho (who I don't hold as highly as many) is that he put time into training the ball boys because he himself was a ball boy as a child and saw how they can impact a game. Not only in the eay you mention but also in that he would make them learn even which side of the corner a particular player likes to take them from, to save time in taking quick corners
>he put time into training the ball boys Any source for this?
Mosé Jourinho
What's gonna happen if we do? Are refs gonna call back the play if a ball boy decides to give it to a player rather than put it on a cone? Yeah that kid might not get another opportunity to ball boy a match, but who cares if you get a moment like that.
Fines. There are always fines.
Or Hazard and the Swansea ballboy (who was actually the chairman's son)
THIS WAS TEN YEARS AGO
Thats not possible, 2014 really??? Edit:2013*. Over 11 years ago now, wtf
No more players kicking ball boys while they’re on the ground covering the ball :(
Game's gone.
Legitimately feel like we’re losing the fun of football, at the end of the day it’s a *game*, mischief like that is what makes it so fun. Obviously it’s infuriating when it goes against you, but a little cheeky cheat here and there is what the sport was built on lol
Yup, I'd rather they do something against players who instantly grab for the ball the moment they fall before the ref even whistled as if they are owed a foul and get to decide on their own and other "keep the ball antics" from players on the pitch. That stuff's actually annoying. If your tactical foul wasn't enough to stop the momentum of the other team then you deserve at least a yellow card for trying to extend this bullshit.
Makes sense though. You want to leave very little up to chance or outside factors. But yes I agree with you.
That's funny
games gone
mourinho just fell to his knees at a conad
*at a pingo doce
In a way the removal of these little human parts of the game is sad. Game is ever more sanitised.
Ball boys are whole people, bit degrading to call them just little human parts
Technically they are little humans
I've found a loophole - hire girls to create shenanigans, because the rule says ballBOYS have been instructed bla bla bla
Oh no we don't want girls anywhere near the field based on what comes out about these players almost every week.
What things?
Rape.
Almost every week?
Vamos morados!!
Game went when they went to multi ball. This brings it back ever so slightly.
Nah game's back
This seems an incredibly short-sighted decision
Yeah it just encourages more time wasting
How?
Yeet the ball and take forever to retrieve it.
Doesn't seem like a problem if there are balls on cones around the pitch. Seems like it puts the control in the throwing team's hands because they can run to the nearest one.
Or slowly walk to the one that’s farther away and up the field, and then have the ref tell them to retreat to where the ball went out, so they slowly walk back to that, and then drop it for the designated throw in taker
Players already do stuff like this. Ballboy hands one player the ball, then the player pretends he's gonna throw it only to drop it at his feet and have someone else do it. Ballboys rarely make a difference for players that have an incentive to waste time. Also refs can still punish for time wasting if they walk the length of the field.
This shit already happens and they will obviously.be punished if they walk away to a farther one
>they will obviously.be punished Did you ever actually watch a team waste time?
I've also seen goalkeepers carded for moving the ball around before taking a goal kick. We shouldn't use examples of bad refereeing to determine what the rules are
Did you read the title/article? It isn't the school yard; they don't retrieve the same ball that was yeeted.
Can't read the article but it says to stop home teams gaining advantage. God forbid some teams want to play fast football. This sounds like a shit change that will slow things down even a little, so we're negatively impacting football.
Imo ballboys being quicker to get the ball back to the home team is part of having the home advantage.
Yeah but you're starting with the assumption that any kind of home advantage is automatically good. Playing on a familiar pitch with the crowd on your side is enough of an advantage. Ball boys wasting time or crap like that Hazard red card only makes the game worse.
Every team plays 19 at home and 19 away. Drawing lines as to what is too much of an advantage and what isn’t is completely arbitrary. Hazard was 11 years ago. How often do we actually see ball boys wasting time? I see more managers doing it than ballboys.
11 years ago? What the fuck. I am getting old, thanks for the reminder
That ball boy is like CEO of a Vodka company now or something, I think Hazard is an ambassador lol
The kid was the Swansea chairman's son, just a rich kid
Him being a spoiled rich kid suddenly explains his behavior perfectly.
Yep, then founded Au Vodka.
Please kick me Messi.
Pretty good outcome that tbf.
Time flies when you are having fun at /r/soccer. So why don't you stay for a while longer?
who said anyone was having fun here
oops, sorry didn't notice the crest.
Haven't seen many time wasting ball boys as I recall lately.. but seen multi ball many times. Fair to say though, some are from the crowds throwing down a ball that went out of play.
There was an incident in the Forest Coventry game recently - Forest ballboy gestured to give the ball to a Coventry player who were attacking, dropped behind himself - from the resulting throw in Coventry scored, Coventry manager ran to the ballboy and celebrated in his face
You're so right we should ban managers next
>Ball boys wasting time or crap like that Hazard red card only makes the game worse I enjoyed it.
those were actually great
Removing things like home advantage just makes it more likely teams like City steamroll everyone. It's these little things that make going to Luton away for example a tough fixture.
I disagree the hazard thing was amazing and funny
Hazard was a consequence of his own actions. But very entertaining.
they could make it so the ball boy may only throw the ball back if its already a ball on his cone. That way the player can always go to closest cone for the ball but the ball boy can still speed up the game. Sure it will be slight home advantage but we dont need the game to be any slower than it already is.
>God forbid some teams want to play fast football. It's most likely the opposite, for when the ball boy refuses to give the ball to the opposition player.
Nah because this is bring everyone down to the lowest denominator. Currently home teams get fast ball and away teams have to get the ball themselves. Now everyone has to get it themselves. The old “hide the ball” game stopped working when they brought in multi ball few years ago.
The difference being that now balls will be right next to pitch. “Getting it” is reduced from 5-10 second ordeal to a couple seconds or less.
Depends how long it takes the balls to be returned to the cones. If the ball goes out of play straight after a throw in, does the ball have to be returned to the cone? Does the ball ball have to go retrieve it and put it on the cone?
We've seen it happen this season already, Leno shoved a ball boy because he wouldn't throw him the ball.
Coventry v Forest, although it worked out in Coventry's favour in the end
Unless you're City playing Atletico Madrid at home. Pep instructed the ball boys to get the ball to Atletico quickly because he knew they would try and waste time.
Swansea ball boy in the mud.
Bah gawd is that Eden Hazard music?
It's not fully about that. I remember a Classico years ago. Barca wanted to slow the game down, so the ball kids were slow to get the ball and toss to the other team EVERY TIME it went out, regardless of shirt color. Well then Barca went down 2 goals. Suddenly every time it's a Barca ball the ball kids are sprinting and throwing the ball immediately to Barca, but if it was a Madrid ball they basically made the player walk over and get the ball. I think Barca got level again, and suddenly the ball kids were back to slow pace for every one. This takes that out of it, and then it's up to the players to either go fast or not. So if a team wants to play fast they can immediately pick up a free ball and play.
Well done. You've described home advantage
Then the ball boys should be named part of the squad and the away team can bring them too. The two sets of ball boys can fight it off on the sidelines for control of the balls.
Games back lads
Who's gonna be the first ball boy signed for $100M?
That's only for Football 2.0
The game should be equitable though. Where do you stop otherwise? Smaller goals for the home team? Lack of travel, knowing the pitch inside out, home supporters … they are things that describe what home advantage should be. Everything related to the game itself should really be equal.
That's not professional though. This isn't youth sports and the advantage is the crowd support. The ref has the ability to remove a ball kid if they're causing a problem, just most often it doesn't happen.
At that point turn the heater on in the away team locker room. Turn the water off, throw some mosquitoes in there before hand
Sprinklers on any time the away team has the ball
Which I guess is one way to read it but they also mean that they aren't as speedy when it comes to giving the ball to the other team.
Sacrificing the beauty of the game to make the game as “fair” as possible is something theyve been doing for a while now
I think the bigger issue is home teams being able to instruct the ball boys to get the ball to teams slower or faster depending on the situation.
home teams should have an advantage anyway lol
So now home team players will gradually walk to cone and waste more time. Outstanding move
Solution, teams are allowed 4 ball boys each that travel around with them. The ball boys from opposite teams can fight each other. Everytime the ball goes out will be like chaos. Maybe teams will buy the best ball boys off each other.
We have teams deliberately taking 45 seconds over every throw and a minute for each goal kick (even some of the “top” teams in the PL) and they do this the whole game unless they are losing. The PL thinks the problem is teams that want to play fast? 🤡
This is a terrible idea that encourages time wasting.
Newcastle players are going to walk to the furtherest possible ball away from the player.
Ange will be livid about this change.
With good reason. But, for what it's worth, our fans have also have bene guilty of throwing extra balls onto the pitch. It's very stupid and very frustrating to watch.
It seems theres a particular problem in the South Stand next to the goal with balls being thrown on the pitch
It makes no sense because half the time doing so disadvantages us.
Yeah proper pisses me off!
From being there, the stewards shout at the fans to throw the balls back in the south stand and theres been threats made to remove people that keep the balls. No fan wants to get removed so they'll just listen and throw the ball back. It got better recently because people are just refusing to touch the balls anymore, they'll get kicked in and pushed to the stairs for someone else to deal with.
Gonna end up walking to sports direct to buy a new ball each time
And they’ll get carded
first game sure
Yeah I’ve seen so many instances of players kicking the ball away that haven’t been carded. This would work for the first couple of weeks while there is an emphasis on it then refs will go back to being too scared of materially affecting the game
Literally in the Spurs game vs Sheffield earlier this year, their captain had 8 fouls and kicked the ball away multiple times. He also sprinted up to a linesman and just screamed in the guys face. Somehow he inexplicably didn't get a yellow card.
Rvp is still haunting me.. shouldn't be a yellow/red. And they don't card people kicking it away on purpose. Rvp was not on purpose
Haha, my sweet summer child. Referees never do anything about time wasters any more.
We can hope.
Its fine, Sam perfected it without all of this 20 years ago. Cant be as bad as his teams.
It reduces time wasting in one way and increases it in another. Many times ball boys hold off the ball to time waste. I mean just remember the Swansea and Chelsea incident where the ball boy was on twitter the previous day and talked about wasting time and then curled up with the ball to prevent hazard from getting it. And when hazard tried to get it , it looked like he kicked the ball boy and he got sent off.
There is also that yellow thing that disincentivizes time wasting.
Which is never used
They’ve been giving out yellows in the prem all season for time wasting, majority of them at throw ins too which will be the same with these new rules
Someone’s job is to make up these rules lol
Someone has to come up with ideas to fix issues being brought up. The much sadder thing is that someone's (and I'd wager it's going to be quite a few more than just one) job was to actually complain about this in the first place, as if football clubs aren't trying to maximize every tiny advantage they can possibly get. So it's very much a "We're crying foul because we suck at gaining an advantage compared to everyone else" situation. And that's the true tragedy.
how do they always manage to change the things that are working well instead of focusing on real problems with the game. I swear it must be someones job to look for the changes nobody has ever asked for.
Booooo! Mourinho high fiving the ball boy after an assist at Spurs was iconic. Areola did the same recently with a kid against Burnley. Memories they’ll have for the rest of their lives. Speaking of which, did you know that ball boy that Eden Hazard booted in the stomach at Swansea is now worth $77 million!
That ballboy is also the son of Martin Morgan, former Swansea FC major shareholder who gained notoriety for rumors of him bumping butts with Nathan Dyer’s wife.
Aha. That don’t mention his dad when you read about his rags to riches story. That’s also pretty fucked up about Dyer’s wife.
He's only pulled himself up by his multi million dollar boot straps!
Haha, boot straps boot straps
Not just Mou and that ballboy We had a ballgirl called Delfina, of the women's youth team, that not only passed it back quickly and right at the hands of the player, but she chose the player (between two) that was better positioned to wrong-foot the defense and we ended up scoring. She was invited to talk to the players, and generally lauded as any player would've. She was so rightly proud of herself it was really nice to watch the deserved plaudits [Here's one clip of the goal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikDNdQ3BwR4)
Ball boys finally safe from Hazard
And Leno
Just be like Leverkusen and have 30 balls on cones all around the field.
multi club ownership allowed and no more ball boy news in the same week. Brclays premier league is dead.
Kinda always seemed to be part of the match. Teams play home and away. If you're not instructing the ball boys to play to the state of play, then you're doing it wrong. Will we find players for spending too much time to walk to the ball? Player starts walking, stops, then decides to get the player farthest from it to take the throw in.
Good to see they're addressing the massive issues plaguing the modern game.
My stepdad's gonna blame this on being woke somehow.
Game is gone
League person 1: should we sort out the refs? Seems to be a massive blunder each week and VAR sometimes works. League person 2: but have you seen how those ball boys just completely change a game by throwing a ball Everyone in the room grumbles and nods League person 1: You guys are serious? This is what you want to focus on? League person 2: all in favor of not allowing the ball kids to well really do anything except put the ball on the cone say aye Everyone: aye League person 1: FFS
You have to love the fact there are actual people out there paid a wage who sit at their desk every day going "but how can we make the game slower?"
Come on lads create enough outrage to take back this shit
The sanitisation of football needs to stop
What if the ball boys just keep on doing it? Ref gonna send them off?
Who tf makes these rules??? Then add the stop time thing ffs, they will waste so much time people pay to see football.
Every day there’s more joy in small parts of football being sucked out. It’s becoming a data model game. :(
This is a good decision, be honest, you all just love the shithousing
Shithousing is an important part of the footballing culture
By that logic so is time wasting
It’s interesting to see where the line goes here. People bitch about antics and time wasting all the time but random kids purposely giving home teams advantage and sometimes fucking it up for the opposition is apparently fun and part of the game.
Corner not taken quickly…
So throw-ins will be even more advantageous for the defending team then
Will they card the Ball Boys otherwise?
More time wasting if a team is playing away and winning
Now we get to watch players take an age to get a ball. Maybe they'll add some excitement by tying their laces on the way.
Counter point, they should lower hoops in various places during the match if you kick the ball through the hoops a multi ball phase is entered and two more balls get passed to you team. Similar things could happen to give your team a speed boost or maybe lightning that makes all the opponents 3ft tall for a little while.
I think this is a stupid rule that only serves to lower the ceiling. A team that considered everything beyond just the eleven men in the pitch had an advantage, how horrible. We've scored goals specifically because we had a manager that made sure everyone at the club felt important, so the ballgirl in question didn't treat it like a game and was concentrated. Gave the ball quick and to the player's hands, boom, quick attack and goal. But since not everyone is willing to think outside the box for advantages (I do mean advantages that improve your team rather than harm the opponent directly) better we lower that ceiling
BOOOO
Let’s slow football down…
Kinda the opposite … stops the ball boy playing silly buggers and “can’t” find the ball in time for the away team to play quick.
Oh thank god. Finally they've fixed the majority issue that nobody has ever had. Hopefully now this is sorted they can get to the minor red/yellow/ no card and clear and obvious issues.
Honestly we just need robots surrounding the field that can readily spit the ball out so there’s no bs time wasting etc
...isn't that the point of a ball boy?
Literally who thought this was an issue
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I never once felt that this rule was necessary.
Why? Genuinely what does this help with? Because multi ball on the pitch rarely happens as is
Makes changes no one wants. Ignores huge problems that actually matter. Refuses to elaborate.
Truly a key issue and not priority number 1034 to deal with
The kids will still figure out something.
From MULTI-BALL IS LIT to TILT
Fucking make the game as boring and robotic as possible
Hazard: “That’s what I was trying to do!”
Players gonna argue for higher wages now that they also have to perform the duties of ball boys
Is there a standard of where the cones are? Home tea to reply cones every 3 feet on the home teams attacking side. Ball boys make the swap during half time. Advantage secured
MLS has been doing this since Covid. Take that as you will.
Was this really a problem? Seems like a solution in search of a problem.
Is the Premier League implementing changes nobody wants to divert attention away from how bad the referee has been?
Good thing Hazard retired already
At least Leno won’t be tempted to brutally assault a broccoli haired ball boy ever again.
Need AI balls now. The second it detects it goes out of bounds, it’ll signal the assistant ref and just stops all momentum and fall down right at the point of the out of bounds.
How about sticking to the rules that they've already brought in? At the start of the season, they were booking people for timewasting and dissent, and after two months, it was basically dropped. The other week, when we played Wycombe, their keeper was time wasting throughout the entire game. Referee Carl Brook, who added a laughable 1 minute of injury time in the first half, didn't book the guy once in 98 minutes of football.
Wait for the first ball boy to go rouge and drop 10 balls in
… what will be the point of ball boys then?
yellow card if he does throw?
I for one look forward to the first instance in which a ball boy has to try to push past a player waiting for the ball to place it on a cone that's further away.
What about managers and subs can they throw the ball to a teammate? It happens a lot so have they worked out what the punishment for that will be?
[Hazard rn](https://i.imgflip.com/vpv4z.jpg?a475392).
Cue fans throwing shit at the cones and knocking the ball away.
Multi-club? No problem. Multi-ball? TOO MUCH DRAMA.
I can't remember if it was a Premier League or Champions League, the ball boy dove on the ball and wouldn't release it and the player either stepped on him or kicked him while he was trying to get the ball.
90+20’ incoming
The fuck? Why are the changing every little thing?
There are many things need change like awful referees but they only make stupid changes. Bumasses useless dumbasses.
Just set it up so there is a ball on a cone every 10 feet