Changes to the Premier League this season - In case you missed them.

[davieG]

https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/forum/1-leicester-city-forum/?do=add

 

The 31st Premier League season begins earlier than usual - Crystal Palace face Arsenal on Friday - as football tries to fit in a winter World Cup.

 

What is new this season, who are the new faces and how does the winter break work?

BBC Sport explains all...

New rules
The biggest change is that each team can make five substitutions a game, up from three.

 

The Premier League brought the rule in for the remainder of the 2019-20 season when football returned after the first Covid lockdown in 2020.

 

While most of Europe's other leagues - and Uefa competitions - kept five subs, English football went back to three.

 

Now five substitutions will be allowed from a bench of nine players. Teams have three opportunities to use their five subs - plus the option to make them at half-time - after which no more subs can be made.

Players will only take the knee before selected games now, previously the anti-racism gesture featured before every match.

 

Premier League clubs have been advised not to stop games for a medical emergency in the stands unless absolutely necessary.

 

Assistant referees have been instructed to only delay raising their flag for an obvious offside when there is an immediate chance of a goal and tight calls.

 

There will be enhanced searches outside stadiums and the use of sniffer dogs to cut down on flares and smoke bombs in games.

 

In another change, the Premier League will bring in in a multi-ball system to reduce delays when the ball is out of play.

 

There will be 10 balls in total - the match ball, one with the fourth official and eight around the pitch on cones next to a 'ball assistant'.

 

There are also provisions for games being postponed because of missing players, although the Premier League will assess each team's request on a case-by-case basis.

 

"Approval will only be granted where the impact of player unavailability on a club's squad is truly exceptional and where the club concerned has taken all reasonable steps to avoid the necessity to make the application," it says.

 

There is also a new ball...

 

New winter break
In a first for English football, there will be six weeks without a Premier League game this winter - as a result of the Qatar World Cup being moved to November and December.

 

There will be no Premier League football between 13 November and 26 December.

 

Teams are also expected to have more time between their Christmas games, although there will only be two days without matches between 26 December and 5 January.

 

The season starts a week earlier than last term - Friday 5 August - and ends a week later - Sunday 28 May - to fit that break in.

[Jon the Hat]

8 minutes ago, davieG said:

Now five substitutions will be allowed from a bench of nine players. Teams have three opportunities to use their five subs - plus the option to make them at half-time - after which no more subs can be made.

I have no idea what this means.  Three opportunities? What?

[moore_94]

Just now, Jon the Hat said:

I have no idea what this means.  Three opportunities? What?

You can only stop the game 3 times to use your 5 subs

[Sampson]

4 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

I have no idea what this means.  Three opportunities? What?

It means you can’t make 5 individual subs, you can only stop the game 3 times, but can make up to 5 substitutions.

 

So you can make 2 double subs and 1 individual sub for example.

 

As said though, a half-time substitution doesn’t count towards that.

 

It’s to stop teams wasting time or trying to kill the momentum of a game by doing an individual sub whenever the ball goes out from about 70mins onwards

Edited 5 August 2022 by Sampson

[Les-TA-Jon]

21 minutes ago, davieG said:

Now five substitutions will be allowed from a bench of nine players. Teams have three opportunities to use their five subs - plus the option to make them at half-time - after which no more subs can be made.

No 2nd half subs! Thats a big change

[MarriedaLeicesterGirl]

Will there still be concussion subs?

[Fear Of The Fox]

This means that most of Liverpool's fixtures in December will be postponed.. 

 

"There are also provisions for games being postponed because of missing players, although the Premier League will assess each team's request on a case-by-case basis." 

[Soar Fox]

Stopping taking the knee as we approach the Qatar World Cup, how convenient. 

[Saxondale]

Some good changes. Though it’s only just dawned on me we’ve got a massive break in the middle of season because of this ridiculous World Cup.

 

How the ACTUAL F UCK has this been allowed to happen? Dirty, corrupt bastards.

[gazzaa2]

40 minutes ago, Fear Of The Fox said:

This means that most of Liverpool's fixtures in December will be postponed.. 

 

"There are also provisions for games being postponed because of missing players, although the Premier League will assess each team's request on a case-by-case basis." 

Didn't Liverpool have to play at Spurs last December with their whole midfield out with Covid? Their only Covid game called off in PL was against Leeds who got it called off. Arsenal called off the game against Spurs with one Covid absence days after loaning out 3 players. Plenty of clubs took the pi$S last season.

Edited 5 August 2022 by gazzaa2

[Fear Of The Fox]

4 minutes ago, Saxondale said:

Some good changes. Though it’s only just dawned on me we’ve got a massive break in the middle of season because of this ridiculous World Cup.

 

How the ACTUAL F UCK has this been allowed to happen? Dirty, corrupt bastards.

I think mods here don't allow any discussions like this about the World Cup and tbf they're right because any discussion will eventually derail into politics. It is what it is, the sport is full on politics. We can only focus on the game as fans for now. 

[Fear Of The Fox]

2 minutes ago, gazzaa2 said:

Didn't Liverpool have to play at Spurs last December with their whole midfield out with Covid? Their only Covid game called off in PL was against Leeds who got it called off. Arsenal called off the game against Spurs with one Covid absence days after loaning out 3 players. Plenty of clubs took the pi$S last season.

I don't remember to be honest, my post was a bit sarcastic because Klopp has already started moaning. 

[Sampson]

1 minute ago, Fear Of The Fox said:

I think mods here don't allow any discussions like this about the World Cup and tbf they're right because any discussion will eventually derail into politics. It is what it is, the sport is full on politics. We can only focus on the game as fans for now. 

It’s pretty sad that thinking we shouldn’t be enabling working people to death for the sake of a piece of entertainment is considered a political position.

[Lambert09]

1 hour ago, davieG said:

https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/forum/1-leicester-city-forum/?do=add

 

The 31st Premier League season begins earlier than usual - Crystal Palace face Arsenal on Friday - as football tries to fit in a winter World Cup.

 

What is new this season, who are the new faces and how does the winter break work?

BBC Sport explains all...

New rules
The biggest change is that each team can make five substitutions a game, up from three.

 

The Premier League brought the rule in for the remainder of the 2019-20 season when football returned after the first Covid lockdown in 2020.

 

While most of Europe's other leagues - and Uefa competitions - kept five subs, English football went back to three.

 

Now five substitutions will be allowed from a bench of nine players. Teams have three opportunities to use their five subs - plus the option to make them at half-time - after which no more subs can be made.

Players will only take the knee before selected games now, previously the anti-racism gesture featured before every match.

 

Premier League clubs have been advised not to stop games for a medical emergency in the stands unless absolutely necessary.

 

Assistant referees have been instructed to only delay raising their flag for an obvious offside when there is an immediate chance of a goal and tight calls.

 

There will be enhanced searches outside stadiums and the use of sniffer dogs to cut down on flares and smoke bombs in games.

 

In another change, the Premier League will bring in in a multi-ball system to reduce delays when the ball is out of play.

 

There will be 10 balls in total - the match ball, one with the fourth official and eight around the pitch on cones next to a 'ball assistant'.

 

There are also provisions for games being postponed because of missing players, although the Premier League will assess each team's request on a case-by-case basis.

 

"Approval will only be granted where the impact of player unavailability on a club's squad is truly exceptional and where the club concerned has taken all reasonable steps to avoid the necessity to make the application," it says.

 

There is also a new ball...

 

New winter break
In a first for English football, there will be six weeks without a Premier League game this winter - as a result of the Qatar World Cup being moved to November and December.

 

There will be no Premier League football between 13 November and 26 December.

 

Teams are also expected to have more time between their Christmas games, although there will only be two days without matches between 26 December and 5 January.

 

The season starts a week earlier than last term - Friday 5 August - and ends a week later - Sunday 28 May - to fit that break in.

“Premier League clubs have been advised not to stop games for a medical emergency in the stands unless absolutely necessary.”

 

not sure i agree with this. If the game keeps going people will be distracted and in the way of emergency staff. Seems a little cold just to keep things on schedule 

[Leicester_Loyal]

Good that the multiball system is back, was a right annoyance waiting around.

 

More sniffer dogs mean I'll have to finish my packet pre kick off now

[Fear Of The Fox]

2 minutes ago, Sampson said:

It’s pretty sad that thinking we shouldn’t be enabling working people to death for the sake of a piece of entertainment is considered a political position.

I'm not saying I disagree with you guys. If I remember well a couple of months ago I had a post deleted about this subject. Probably there is another thread/topic where you can have this discussion. 

[sacreblueits442]

7 minutes ago, Fear Of The Fox said:

I'm not saying I disagree with you guys. If I remember well a couple of months ago I had a post deleted about this subject. Probably there is another thread/topic where you can have this discussion. 

...it would be in general Chat, I would think!!!

[Saxondale]

1 hour ago, Fear Of The Fox said:

I think mods here don't allow any discussions like this about the World Cup and tbf they're right because any discussion will eventually derail into politics. It is what it is, the sport is full on politics. We can only focus on the game as fans for now. 

Being against corruption and slave labour is not really a political opinion.

 

 

[gazzaa2]

1 hour ago, Fear Of The Fox said:

I don't remember to be honest, my post was a bit sarcastic because Klopp has already started moaning. 

 

Water is wet.

[foxinsocks]

1 hour ago, Fear Of The Fox said:

I think mods here don't allow any discussions like this about the World Cup and tbf they're right because any discussion will eventually derail into politics. It is what it is, the sport is full on politics. We can only focus on the game as fans for now. 

I think we can duscuss the process used to select the wc host... and if it was corrupt.   Blatter has gone and we hope that things will be more transparent in the future.  Similarly,  some counties treat immigrant labour poorly and qatar is one of them. 

I hope the hoohaa will mean that these issues.. plus lgbt treatment.... are given more consideration in the future.  Why cant such things be said?