At the end of matches, often a team will get the ball and shield it in the corner. I think we can all agree this is terrible football. To prevent this on a much ignored part of the pitch, there could be a curved corner like in ice hockey to prevent the player from doing this. It can also have form part of the new corner circle to take corners from.
Should pitches have circular corners to prevent time wasting?
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How does that help? Surely it just makes the pitch a bit smaller and easier for the guy shielding the ball?
Ok, too obvious. Now I know you’re a WUM!!
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We could have trapdoors that randomly open/close in the corners into something like a snake pit, that would surely stop time wasting
As you can see, corner number 2 has a lot more room either side of the player for a tackle. The player is represented by the circle.
Why is the ball in the right image larger? Are you also suggesting we need bigger balls?
As you can see, corner number 2 has a lot more room either side of the player for a tackle
Should the pitch be made of lava?
Like clockwork
That would be really silly tbh, where will the snakes come from?
I am not, I actually was thinking that bigger balls could be implemented since the growth of humans in the last 100 years. But I think this is a more important thing to talk about, I absolutely hate it at the end of games especially in lower leagues.
What's terrible in it ? Winning team wasting time, shocker.
Who's suggesting I need bigger balls?!!
The intent is noble but the execution is not quite there. The way to do it would be like this :
As you can see, corner number 2 has a lot more room either side of the player for a tackle
Now imagine someone trying to shield the ball with that massive old trafford slope? We'd have an instant advantage in Fergie time.
The Glazer family can be in there, on a rotor basis, the most dangerous of snakes.
I suggest a sarlacc pit or maybe rancor cave. Better idea. If someone including the ball doesn’t move for 5 seconds, a trapdoor will open. Would prevent time wasting and injuries as well.
Let's just make the pitch a circle, then let's see teams try and shield the ball.
Great idea. Another one... Have you seen Gladiator? The part where the lion comes out of the floor made the fight intense, this could be introduced to football and should be easy to implement.
In addition, we should make the pitch a circle as well. Removes all corners in one go. The ball is a circle (well sphere) and pitch, where its played probably, should also be a circle. It all makes sense if you don't think about it.
Ding ding ding....we have a winner
The goal should also be a circle. Might help De Gea save pens by have smaller corners I guess ?
I need one bigger ball and I totally object to having to bring it up. In fact I'm reporting every post in this thread. Mass disciplinary action imminent.
Why not place a seat just in front of the corner flag and fill it with a sailor or a roofer. Players are far less likely to time waste in the corner if they've got to navigate around rif raf.
I don’t care/quite like the whole running the clock down thing. It’s frustrating as feck if you’re the one trying to equalise, especially when it’s usually combined with soft as shite fouls, but the onus is on the other team to get the ball back. You can do what you like with it if you don’t need a goal.
Diving for penalties is a bigger problem to be honest, I think each box should be littered with shards of broken glass to ensure players only go down if there's absolutely no other option.
Football should be about the journey, not the end. What if instead of the team that scores the most goals win, we celebrate the team that had the most fun?
Moral victory
Said every loser ever.
Play in a cage with angled corners.
Never have to see a foul throw again.
No more terribly hit corners
No more goal kicks passed inside the box
Players can't hold the ball in the corner to waste time
Ball never goes out of play so you get 90 mins of action
No more time wasting trotting for corners or throw ins.
Subs can come on and off throw a sliding panel.
Never have to see a foul throw again.
No more terribly hit corners
No more goal kicks passed inside the box
Players can't hold the ball in the corner to waste time
Ball never goes out of play so you get 90 mins of action
No more time wasting trotting for corners or throw ins.
Subs can come on and off throw a sliding panel.
Much easier to install Ben Hur-esque rotating spikes in the corner flag.
This explains so much about you.
Let's not lie now, shall we ?
We could simply instead make time-wasting punishable by death. Easy to do and would solve the matter straightaway.
Perhaps the real victory was the friends we made along the way.
Forget circular corners, just make the ball square.
Well even to an obviously joking post you had to reply with a negatively charged answer.Let's not lie now, shall we ?
But I'm also joking indeed. Didn't you see the smile at the end ?Well even to an obviously joking post you had to reply with a negatively charged answer.
And this year we made the most friends since we got to play in both the Champions League and Europa League, then we went all the way to the final and met so many teams on the way, and then even let Villarreal get their first ever European trophy to be nice.
We won SO hard.
Looks good, but it's lacking some detail.The intent is noble but the execution is not quite there. The way to do it would be like this :
Now imagine someone trying to shield the ball with that massive old trafford slope? We'd have an instant advantage in Fergie time.
Not with your first answer.But I'm also joking indeed. Didn't you see the smile at the end ?