Penalties, Time-Wasting & Minute Caps: Rule Changes
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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How can we combat time-wasting? Should we replace penalties? What about maximum caps on minutes played for players? Tifo discusses three potential rule changes, and considers: how can we improve the game?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. My name is Joe Devine and today I'm delighted to be joined by two people. One of them is Alex Stewart. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello, Joe. Hello. And the other is Seb Stafford Bloor. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello, Joe. How do you turn on your enthusiasm like that? Just how do I do it like that? |
| 0:19.9 | Yeah, because you... |
| 0:21.0 | Oh, mother brought me up well. |
| 0:23.1 | Okay. |
| 0:23.5 | All those family parties. |
| 0:25.2 | I don't want to go... |
| 0:26.1 | Hello, granddad. |
| 0:27.4 | You know? |
| 0:28.1 | Actually, granddad was always a breeze. |
| 0:30.0 | What a rabbit hole that is. |
| 0:31.8 | Okay. |
| 0:33.9 | Goodness me. |
| 0:34.7 | Anyway, the purpose of today's podcast is to look at football rules and potential additions to the rulebook of football. |
| 0:43.3 | Seb, Alex and I have one sort of addition or rule change each. |
| 0:48.2 | They may be a kind of range of additional rules or they may be a concept or a very simple one. |
| 0:53.8 | Throughout this podcast, |
| 0:55.0 | each of us will state what our rule change or rule addition is. The other two will question |
| 0:59.7 | it and we'll see. It's a bit like Room 101, isn't it? That's for, I mean, I didn't think |
| 1:03.7 | about that until I said it as a joke before we started recording. But for viewers and listeners |
| 1:08.7 | from not in the United Kingdom, I don't know whether you have |
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