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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 2939827" data-attributes="member: 22424">I think they should do the following:1) Put offside back the way it was - a player is offside if, at the moment the ball is played, there are fewer than two opposing players between him and the goal. You cannot be offside in your own half of the pitch, and cannot be offside if the ball is played backwards.Anything else just makes the rule far to complex - it's the Attack of Opportunity rule of football.2) Allow five substitutions in the game.3) Adopt the use of TV evidence, probably in the hands of the 4th, 5th and 6th officials, who should be in direct communication with the referee.4) Go back to using a proper ball. This new lightweight thing did not prove to be the wonder-ball it was touted as.5) Don't try to institute lots of disciplinary rulings for the World Cup only - all applicable leagues need to use the same disciplinary rules as the World Cup for the full year before the cup, so players can get used to them, and we don't have so many cards handed out.6) Diving should see the player involved banned for the remainer of the tournament.7) I'm wondering whether a Red Card should see a player removed from the game for 10 minutes or so, rather than for the rest of the game, or perhaps requires that that player immediately be substituted. As it is, a red card can destroy a game as the team affected switches to a 9-0-0 formation and plays for penalties.And that's about it.I, too, am looking forward to 2010. With a lot of luck, Scotland might even qualify. I suspect we won't for Euro 2008 - our qualifying group has both Italy and France in it!</blockquote>

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