is it ruining the spectacle of football ? the entertainment value of a game ?

Does anybody else get infuriated when a team go a goal up, and commence tying their shoelaces, picking their nose, and having a demarcation dispute at every free kick ?

And can we create a 'jose mourinho rule' .....whereby the injury-time is calculated by doubling every minute wasted by a leading team....to be appended after the normal 90 minutes has elapsed ?

WITH THE PROVISO that if the leading team was doing all the time wasting and is still leading, then they pay double time....waste 3 minutes during the game and pay a price of 6 minutes after the 90. And so 'play the game with ambition' and you may win. Time-waste and you increase the probability of losing the game overall.

or other ways to prevent time-wasting making the game get boring ?

Have you noticed the staggering contrast between a Mourinho team before they score the first goal and after they scored ?

A football topic, in Football talk.

discuss

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford

Free kicks can be a source of wasted time. Can someone tell me: is their a rule in the game stating that if a kick is awarded near the offending team's goal, it can't be taken until the referee whistles, which I guess can be up to a minute later, but if it's well away from goal, it can be taken immediately? I doubt it, but that's how it appears.

I wish we would adopt the laws of rugby, where as soon as a penalty or free kick is awarded, the non-offending team can take it without any delay. If an opponent attempts to interfere - for example, by kicking the ball away - the kick will be moved forward 10 yards and the offender may be sin-binned. In addition, any opponent within 10 yards of the kick when it is taken may not take any part in the game until the ball or the player carrying it has gone 10 yards. Again, the punishment for not complying is that the kick will be moved forward.

Isn’t the rule that a free kick can be taken at any time provided the ball is stationary? I think it used to be the case that both teams had to agree to quick free kicks before the game but the law was changed.

A couple of years ago I did a little experiment. Whilst watching a game on tv, I had a stop watch and stopped the clock every time the ball was dead. Only did the first half but there was only 22 minutes of football with the ball in play.

Perhaps change the law so that the team with the free kick can take it quickly as long as it is behind the original offence?

One more point

The '10 yard' rule was scrapped by FIFA quite a long time ago.

In actual fact, in some instances, moving the ball forward 10 yards was not of benefit to the team awarded the free kick EG Moving the ball 10 yards forward at free kicks just outside the penalty area.