By Mike Keegan For Mailonline
Published: 22:27 GMT, 2 March 2019 | Updated: 22:27 GMT, 2 March 2019
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A raft of changes to the laws of football will come in from next season as part of a wide-ranging attempt to cut down on cheating and time-wasting.
Football lawmakers the International FA Board (Ifab) have agreed to bring in a number of significant amendments for the new campaign.
They include:
- Fouls for certain non-deliberate handballs
- Attacking players banned from going in the wall at free-kicks
- Substituted players leaving the field via the nearest touchline
- A revamp of the dropped ball system
- Goalkeepers only having to have one foot on the line at penalties
- Goal kicks no longer having to leave the area before they can be played at
- Red and yellow cards to be shown to dissenting team officials Ifab, which consists of the four home nations, who each have a vote, and Fifa, which has four votes, agreed the amendments at their conference in Aberdeen on Saturday.
