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Watching the new on TV and implementing the old will be a lot better than changing mid-season, that's for sure!

Or "must exit the corner area" or "must be positioned with the hands" or something else that does the job! How hard can it be? ;)

I think that when a ball is in play at a restart should not be open to this kind of ambiguity. Without a decent framework for consistency, we are all doomed! <TM> :(

One more try... my point is, how do you distinguish between a positioning kick (that clearly moves the ball) and putting the ball into play?

Have you not seen the YouTube videos? Did you not read my complete post? The word "clearly" doesn't really change a thing.

This may have been mentioned above - did they miss the opportunity to define when a corner kick has been taken very clear? For every other restart, it is really clear when the ball has been put into play (even though for quick free kicks it's not really codified, but it is clear) but for the...

I get what people are saying about the dropped ball change, and if this is really what they meant originally - this modification being just a clarification - then they aren't very good at writing clear, concise, complete laws in the first place. "Directly" was obvious to me before (one touch no...

It's going to happen to some ref at some stage. But it's still a material change, and that's my point. And the explanation talks about clarity and consistent wording, not a material change. Perhaps they should have introduced the doubly touch rule for dropped balls, and then we wouldn't have...

Indeed, but now we have the situation where the player that first touches the ball after it has been dropped and hits the ground, can dribble it down to the other end of the field to the opponents goal, but not be able to score. That's the big change I see - nothing to do with accidental anything.

But doesn't that change the meaning? If you've already discussed it then I'd like executive summary please. But for me this is a material change, not just a clarification, in that what was a goal yesterday, will not be a goal tomorrow (or come June 1st, or whenever your competition authority...

No talk here about the new dropped ball wording, or did I miss it? Or did you guys have a different interpretation of "directly" so it isn't a change for you?