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Laws of the Game Review - Law 18

Flo Lunn

In this week's blog post we shared that we would like to consult with this community regarding the upcoming Laws of the Game review and would welcome your thoughts on the proposed changes. 

The first discussion is Law 18 and concerns the sanctions applied for multiple not walking offences. The current Law is as follows: 

A player who is penalised three times for a walking offence will receive a blue card and are sin binned for a duration of between two and five minutes.

A series of trial events have been held, in which conclusions were made as to what sanctions would be most effective in reducing the number of not walking offences. As a result the proposed change is now: 

A penalty kick is awarded to the opposition on the fourth accumulated “not walking” offence committed by a team. This team count is then reset to zero and the “not walking” offences will accumulate again.

Please comment any of your reflections on this change below.

Parents

  • I would like to hear more from the trial events, were they over a League season or at festivals/tournaments. As most games tend in my experience to be 1-0 or 0-0, the award of a penalty will make a big difference and players are likely to pressure the refs more than under the current rules. I think I played in one of the trial events. My team got to three not-walking offences very quickly but did not concede a penalty. I think we slowed down but also speculated that refs became more hesitant about awarding a penalty. It was a very well run friendly tournament played on a very hot day. The refs were very good and the players played in the right sporting spirit. 

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  • I would like to hear more from the trial events, were they over a League season or at festivals/tournaments. As most games tend in my experience to be 1-0 or 0-0, the award of a penalty will make a big difference and players are likely to pressure the refs more than under the current rules. I think I played in one of the trial events. My team got to three not-walking offences very quickly but did not concede a penalty. I think we slowed down but also speculated that refs became more hesitant about awarding a penalty. It was a very well run friendly tournament played on a very hot day. The refs were very good and the players played in the right sporting spirit. 

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