Wanja tells his children… today abouto Time playo Germany’s luck at major tournaments and their bad luck at the same timeo The penalty kick in generalo Alternative penalties to the penaltyo Handball penaltyo Foul penaltyo The history of the ruleso The “Un-Fairplay of the Millennium”, Alpayo Foul play as a rule violationo What do you…
Wanja talks to his children, today about… Offside When the group had gathered again, after dinner, and the children were having their digestive hour before the next round of football, outside in the park, where there were a couple of huge playing fields, with real goals and always enough players from the neighbourhood to play,…
The term alone should make you think. But first, let’s have a little history. The rules were once written in such a way that here eleven, there eleven compete against each other with a ball, which has to be pushed into the opposite goal. All parts of the body are allowed to move the ball…
The question was chosen deliberately. What is a punishment, what does one perceive as a punishment? What would be the meaning of a punishment? To what extent is the intention in determining a penalty, which is assigned to a breach of the rules, to prevent a repetition of the same as far as possible? Shouldn’t…
Thesis 1: More goals would be good for footballThesis 2: The current interpretation of the rules disadvantages the attackersThesis 3: The application of existing rules is sufficient to ensure more goals.Thesis 4: Basically, everyone feels that the attackers are disadvantaged, but no one dares to say so. Because: one could only say it in the…
A referee’s decision that stands in the way of a goal being scored is the much easier and thus too frequently taken, with the result that a list of all recognised incorrect decisions would show a clear disproportion to the detriment of goals scored. Foul play on a striker or handball by a defender in…
Thesis 1:More goals would be good for football. And this is indeed the case in many respects (explained in more detail later). The introduction of the three-point rule basically provides proof that even the rules officials have noticed a lack of goals, or at least of action. More goals, more excitement, more action, more fans,…
Foul play on the striker or handball by a defender in the penalty area are penalties according to the rules, but are assessed differently there. In the discussion of thesis 1, this second thesis has already been addressed here in principle. Nevertheless, a few things could be mentioned in addition, something more specific to the…
A referee decision that stands in the way of a goal being scored is the much easier and thus too frequently taken, with the consequence that a list of all recognised wrong decisions shows a clear disproportion to the disadvantage of goals scored. Now this may sound complicated, but in the end it should be…
Even if, on the whole, the application of existing rules is advocated or only a rethinking per goal action in the sense of an increased entertainment value in football is considered sufficient, there are nevertheless a few fundamental situations in modern professional football which may well be reconsidered. It is possible – and presumably can…
