Reinventing Football - what to do with handball, penalties and VAR?

Football Daily

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Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News, Sport

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🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Kelly Cates is joined by Nedum Onuoha, Rory Smith and comedian Kae Kurd to discuss the changes they would make if they were designing football from scratch.

How would they tweak the rules? What punishments would they introduce? How long should a game last? How many players per team? How many points for a win? Would they keep VAR?

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
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0:40.8	You're listening to the Football Daily podcast with Kelly Kate.
0:45.1	Hello and welcome to the Football Daily.
0:47.2	This week across BBC Sport, we've been discussing what football would be like if we started from scratch.
0:54.1	The thing I would change in football is five minutes. What football would be like if we started from scratch?
0:57.8	The thing I would change in football is... Five minutes simbing for simulation.
1:00.8	Maybe scrapping offside might be the answer.
1:02.6	I would do a leg critic.
1:03.8	I think that would keep the speed of the game off.
1:05.6	If they do it in the NFL, why not?
1:07.8	For me, it would be to change the handball.
1:09.7	If we were starting it all from scratch.
1:11.8	Goals outside the box count double.
1:13.7	A time limit on VAR decisions.
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