The eight second rule

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RIP the six second rule. Long live the eight second rule.

The plan is to actually start enforcing it, with the compromise that keepers that hold on too long will concede a corner, instead of the current indirect freekick.

As someone who gets unnecessarily annoyed at keepers holding on to the ball I am very excited!

From this summer onwards, goalkeepers will be allowed eight seconds from catching the ball to releasing it, in the latest attempt to cut down on time-wasting.

Positive results in trials across England, Italy and Malta have prompted the games rule-makers, the International Football Association Board (Ifab), to change the law for the start of the 2025-26 season.

This rule will be implemented worldwide by 1 July, at all levels of the game from elite to amateur.

Referees will punish goalkeepers holding on to the ball for more than eight seconds by awarding a corner to the opposition.

Goalkeepers will be warned by the referee when they have five seconds remaining to get rid of the ball. The referee will raise their arm and start a visual countdown with their hand.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cwyg7jyp82do
 
In a very extreme scenario, prime Stoke vs 11 Verrattis, Stoke can create an infinite loop of corners?

I know it’s an insane hypothetical, but there still has to be a stipulation like “if you do it twice, you get a yellow card”.
 
The results from the trial are really positive. Should speed up the game a lot.

Elleray gave an example involving Brighton stopper Jason Steele from their 3-1 victory over Manchester United at Old Trafford in September 2023.

Steele held on to the ball for an average of 14.8 seconds, compared to Andre Onana's average of 4.8 seconds.

Perfect example of what they are trying to rectify. Very much dependent on which team is time wasting, as I imagine Onana himself is a big culprit.
 
This won't be enforced.

Yellow cards for time wasting applied properly and evenly would put a stop to it and a lot of other shithouse behaviour.
 
I hope they enforce it rigorously. Doubt it, though. But there is no on-field factor more annoying to me about football than time wasting.
 
10 seconds and enforced rigorously with yellow cards would be more than good enough. The main thing is enforcing it every time, and not just once in a blue moon.
 
Red the Bear said:
Why not just enforce the 6 second rule.
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I can see why some might consider six seconds a bit extreme. Sometimes the keeper needs at least a little moment to gather himself and stand up and so on. Eight seconds sounds fairer to me. But those should be enforced.
 
Law that is never enforced to be replaced by another one that won't be.

Well, barring maybe a 2 week period when it's new before it's forgotten again.
 
desertegil said:
10 seconds and enforced rigorously with yellow cards would be more than good enough. The main thing is enforcing it every time, and not just once in a blue moon.
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The more proportionate punishment will help with enforcement. No ref wants to give an indirect free kick in the box (that can be almost as good as a penalty depending on the position) for it, and pretty much none of them have the balls to give a second yellow for timewasting for the same reason.

Can probably get them to give corners more consistently, though.
 
HTG said:
I can see why some might consider six seconds a bit extreme. Sometimes the keeper needs at least a little moment to gather himself and stand up and so on. Eight seconds sounds fairer to me. But those should be enforced.
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One can certainly hope so.

At the end a futsal like stopwatch approach might be the only way to root out time wasting.
 
I assume Opta or someone is monitoring the average time each keeper holds onto the ball. Retrospective bans should be given for keepers holding the ball more than 8 seconds in any given match. The timewasting will ease up if that is enforced.
 
For as long as I remember I have always counted how many seconds a keeper holds the ball when the other team is chasing the game. It’s always annoyed me. Nothing will change though. It’ll get enforced at absolutely random times just like foul throws are.
 
I’m actually welcoming of new rules

Especially around time wasting

This one is dog shit

Oliver will just give a shit load of corners against us and never enforce it in any other game against any other team
 
Anything to stop fecking time wasting. Same rule should apply to taking a throw in.

Would love to hear the crowd counting to eight.
 
Give a yellow card for keepers who fall to their knees when catching a cross too.
 
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