Forgotten rules of football

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We can all agree that there are lots of sports in this world. From baseball to hockey and so on. But the most popular of all is football. Over the years, this great game has evolved into the most loved sport in the world. It has the greatest competitions in the world in the likes of the World Cup and champions league.

Even with this perfection, the pioneers of this great game always try to improve the game. A perfect example is the introduction of the video assistant referee to modern day football. Some of these rules match the game well, while some do not work at all and are abandoned easily along the line.

Welcome to my blog and today I will be discussing some of those rules that were used in football but were abandoned along the line for some reasons. Let's also keep in mind that some of these rules were restricted to some major leagues and competitions. Some of these rules were applied in certain competitions to increase the acctackint nature of the game.

In the old times the mentality of home and away was taken very seriously. Away teams were always scared to attack the home team and this made the game very slow unlike football we watch today. Like I said before some of these rules worked well with the game but maybe they were just introduced at the wrong time. Let's see the first abandoned rule.

Like I said earlier, at some point during the evolution of football as a standard sport, the game started getting boring as teams always adopted the defensive mentality of the game. The home team was always on top as the away teams were always scared to attack, they always defended to avoid losing the game.

In the 1980's a new rule that said that any home win will attract just two points and an away win will attract all three points was introduced to the game of football with the sole intention to increase the attacking nature of the game. This rule was mostly applied to just league games and so didn't affect other major competitions so before long it was abandoned and forgotten.

You could say that this rule was one of the most successful regulations that was still abandoned despite its effectiveness as it made away teams attack the home teams more often leading to more aways teams winning the match and more competition in the league.

In 1987 most leagues who adopted this rule started to abandon it as it didn't totally solve the problem, but it just reversed the case making teams win less matches than those on top of them in the table.

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In the old times UEFA introduced the silver goal rule which is the direct opposite of the FIFA golden goal rule.

The silver goal rule stated that on an occasion of a draw and extra time the first team to score the winning goal takes the day after the end of the half. But the FIFA golden goal rule stated the opposite, it stated that the first team to score during extra time takes the day immediately after the goal was scored. In some UEFA competitions teams were even allowed to pick between the two.

After the golden goal rule was introduced in 1993, fans and pioneers of the game thought it wouldn't last but it proved everyone wrong as the silver goal rule was later abandoned.

But in the European championships held in Portugal in 2004, the famous international association board decided to abandon both rules.

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The kick in rule like every other abandoned rule didn't last long but it made a little bit of sense. If you think about football logically, it is a game that must be played with a ball and only the legs. Penalties and cards are awarded to any defaulters who controls the ball with his hands on the pitch.

But as a game of football that rule should reside in every area such as throw Ins. In today's football the players make use of their hands to throw the ball back into play whenever the opponent kicks it out. This method slows down the game, so a new rule which was to kick the ball in was introduced.

In 1994 the FIFA president declared that in two years the kick in rule would be adopted to football to make the game faster. But the idea wasn't quite accepted by leagues, clubs and managers. Coaches made their players throw the ball Instead of kickin it in. So with time the rule was abandoned and forgotten.

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This rule is based solely on an American ideology of getting a winner out of every match easily. In the early times of football in America the game was regarded as boring because most matches always ended up in a draw.

So a new rule was introduced in order to get a winner out of every match. It involved an attacker given just 5 seconds with the ball. He would stand 30 yards aways from the goal and only had just five seconds to score. This was done immediately after the normal regulation time was over.

This rule produced the winner in matches but it put a lot of pressure on the penalty takers as a lot was expected from them and it was almost impossible to score that far out with so little time. In 1982 the new rule was abandoned along with the Northern American league.

As we said before, the great game of football is a very exciting one that involves innovative ideas that improves the sport every now and then. It's just a twist that keeps our game going!.

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