23 Feb 2026 22:49:24
I know it's not Liverpool-related, but it still pertains to the PL. I just wanted to ask Ed001 if you've heard anything about PGMOL changing rules regarding corners, because if you watched the United and Everton game tonight, it wasn't football, whatever was going on at each set piece.

Surely the higher-ups are aware it's killing the spectacle of football, and it's gone too far now. Arteta has started a set-piece cult now, surely it's gone too far, Ed001?

{Ed001's Note - the laws are already in place to deal with it, there is no need to change anything other than to bring in competent officials.}

1.) 24 Feb 2026
23 Feb 2026 23:26:12
It's absolutely insane. The amount of pushing, grabbing, blocking, wrestling, and nothing is given, yet Kolo Muani touched Gabriel's back and it's a foul. In tonight's game, Ndiaye touched Shaw with a hand, and Shaw just flopped to the floor and got a free kick.

Why do they give fouls for minimal contact like that, but at set pieces anything goes? Surely the head of the PGMOL needs to pull them all in and demand answers? I won't hold my breath.

2.) 24 Feb 2026
23 Feb 2026 23:36:51
That wasn't football, it was more like rugby.

3.) 24 Feb 2026
23 Feb 2026 23:22:10
Ed001, thank you for the reply, but surely if the laws are in place, then it allows for a grey area being exploited by teams? I think if they made it so before the kick is taken, the keeper has a certain area that can't be entered, perhaps? i'm not sure, but what I do know for sure is that the idea that the player is just standing his ground when, in fact, he's boxing the keeper in and stopping him from moving is not what the laws of football all them moons ago started off with.

{Ed001's Note - there is no grey area, what is going on is wrong, but the officials are weak and incompetent. It is the same with diving and time wasting, the laws and powers are there for officials to deal with them, but they are a bunch of weak cowards.}

4.) 24 Feb 2026
24 Feb 2026 06:38:24
Just like the pundits Ed. Refs give it there's clear contact. They don't, it's a "coming together."

{Ed001's Note - pundits annoy me, talking about 'clever play' when someone cheats. They need to start calling it cheating if it is to be eradicated.}

5.) 24 Feb 2026
24 Feb 2026 08:01:10
One rule change I hope they introduce in the near future is for throw-ins and set pieces. I'm sick to the back teeth of every dead-ball situation taking over a minute. Even throw-ins now, you have to wait whilst Aina, Kayode, etc., waltz the full width of the pitch from RB to launch a long throw into the box. I think the rules should be that if you take longer than 60 seconds from the point the ball goes dead, you are automatically booked for time wasting, and the set-play/throw-in is given to the opposition.

Free kicks and throw-ins flipped, and corners become goal kicks, or goal kicks become corners. The only exception should be if the ref blows his whistle to delay the restart for some reason. The alternative is they need to start stopping the clock and just change it to 60 minutes, because it's got to the point where they're now sapping about 45 minutes away with throw-ins, goal kicks, corners, and free kicks. The Premier League in general is bordering on unwatchable this season.

6.) 24 Feb 2026
24 Feb 2026 09:45:50
I have thought for years and years that no attacking player should be inside the goalkeeper's six-yard box until the ball is kicked for the corner.

7.) 24 Feb 2026
24 Feb 2026 10:06:13
I think "competent officials" is an oxymoron in 2026. Globally. Also, I love the time limit on deadball situations, but I would only allow 30 seconds. As for players rolling around on the floor, if they are not on their feet within 30 seconds, a stretcher comes on and they go off for treatment, minimum of 10 minutes.

Retrospective 10 match bans for play acting as well. Cheating is cheating.

8.) 24 Feb 2026
24 Feb 2026 11:06:37
The referees need to be stronger rather that give a yellow for simulation make it a red instead that way players just may think twice before cheating.referees also need to stop this mobbing as players do that with the chance of influencing the referees decision I thought it was the capitan only allowed to speak with the ref others would be guilty of mobbing yet so far no action has being taken i'd love to hear Mr webbs spin on this.nail the 1st one to come near you and the rest will stop surely

9.) 24 Feb 2026
24 Feb 2026 12:21:31
I agree with Ed. The refs are lazy as hell and are not interested in actually doing their jobs at a basic level anymore. All you have to do is look at the absolute howlers on show during the last FA Cup weekend.

Absolute shambles. It's like the refs rely so heavily on VAR that when it became time to actually ref the game, they looked clueless and their relentless incompetence was there for all to see.

10.) 24 Feb 2026
24 Feb 2026 13:32:08
Edd 1 Mike Dean a few seasons back gave a penalty for grabbing and pulling in the penalty area at a corner. He had the balls to give the pen, then was lambasted from everywhere in football, so the referees can't win.

I am not a fan of Dean or any of the referees. I think this had to be pointed out over the debate on corners. YNWA

{Ed001's Note - which is why I said they need the pundits to back them and start talking about the cheating that is going on.}

11.) 24 Feb 2026
24 Feb 2026 14:27:40
ED001 what do you think about following the rugby by yellow card, sin bin, then off for 3 silly fouls, like kicking the ball away, time wasting n feigning fouls etc.

The set pieces n corners do my head in, more or less wresting each other but even worse is 6ft odd men falling at the slightest touch, I think all this would stop if addressed properly and your right about pundits saying clever play, that's just cheating in my world

{Ed001's Note - I would be happy to try anything right now to fix this, but rule changes will not matter unless officials enforce them. They need to start booking players for diving or pretending to be injured.}

12.) 24 Feb 2026
24 Feb 2026 19:38:52
Ed I thought after Euros 3-4 years back the PL raised the foul bar for about the first 15 rounds. The pundits seemed to say "that would have been a foul last year and it's nice to see the higher bar this season" etc. Didn't last. The pundits are afraid to rock the boat. Some of them are making more than they ever made as players.