Dale Johnson

The eight second one, yeah.

The referee's going to monitor it.

And if he feels like they're taking too long of the goal kick or the throw in, then he'll raise his hand and do the five second countdown for the last few seconds.

I think one thing we've got to say here is the reason why all these rules are coming in is because players and coaches are trying to find every which way to get an advantage around the rules.

And it's got to the point where so much time has been wasted on goal kicks, throw-ins, injuries, etc.,

that they felt that the only way they can tackle it is to bring in these new regulations.

And you're absolutely right.

The referee's going to spend most of the game counting, and they are actually making decisions.

Exactly.

And there's now three new areas of VAR to take into account, which means there's going to be extra time there.

So to cover that, basically, there's now going to be VAR checks on corners, only corners, not goal kicks.

And they will make sure that that's the right decision.

Yeah, so that's the fun one that was announced on Friday and Pierluigi Collina was very proud of it because Collina is absolutely desperate to have anything that can be fixed by VAR fixed by VAR.

And so what he's looking at here is you take the England versus Uruguay in March when there was a blocking.

That was the example.

And that happened before the corner was taken so the VAR could not disallow the goal.

Now they're saying that if that does happen in the future, the VAR can step in and say there was a foul that had a material impact on the outcome of the goal and they can intervene and disallow the goal but restart with the corner.

But if there's a defender doing that,

they're not going to intervene in any way.

Oh, hang on.