if you introduce new laws then enforce them the whole season not just for a few games.
Who came up with Goalkicks being allowed to be taken either side rather than where the ball went out, this is now an obvious time wasting opportunity.
Free Kicks:::: let them be what the name suggests rather than allow an opposing player to stand by the ball, forcing the attacker to pass sideways or backwards.
When a player kicks the ball away, then award a free kick forward the same distance as was kicked away.
Chat to Goalkeepers "before" the game if you have to remind them about keeping 1 foot on the line, why the need for a conversation once a penalty is awarded.
Return to the keepers having 6 seconds to release the ball from both open play and Goalkicks and add the same time for a throw in to be taken.
) , but whatever initiatives there are just get quietly forgotten after about three games and everything just reverts to how it was before! Remember the 'Respect' thing, where it was only captains who could speak to the ref? Or the season they actually started giving fouls for offences at corners? Or moving the ball forward if there was dissent at free kick (or have I imagined that one?). Or being serious about penalising diving, stopping opposition players standing close to a free kick to delay it being taken, actually penalising obstruction etc etc? They are all nine day wonders.
