Luton Outlaws - Independent Message Board for Luton Town FC

The change was introduced to speed up the game - the same as not insisting that a goal kick has to be taken on the side of the goal where the ball went out. That's worked well, hasn't it. The same as the ref counting down the last five of the eight seconds - except that they don't even start counting until eight seconds a lot of the time and, when they do, there are some very long seconds followed by the keeper dropping the ball when the time is almost up and then taking even more time before actually kicking it. There was already a six second law that was never implemented so why increase it to eight but, in reality, to about fifteen.

Too much tinkering with the laws of the game for no good reason.