The strangest penalty…temporary expulsion reaches football due to late exit

The International Football Association Board (IFAB) has moved towards approving an unprecedented package of amendments to the laws of the game, aiming to combat the phenomenon of time wasting, which has escalated in severity in recent seasons. These proposals will be presented at the annual general meeting scheduled for next Saturday, amid a desire from FIFA to speed up the pace of matches and increase the actual playing time, according to the BBC. The amendments include strict time penalties for substitutions, treatment of injured people, and mechanisms for resuming play, in a move described as the boldest since the introduction of the video assistant referee technology. “Numerical deficiency”… the penalty for delaying a substitution. “IFAB” proposes imposing a time limit not exceeding 10 seconds on the substituted player to leave the field.