Reinventing football

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This is an interesting what-if article for anyone who watches professional football. How would you change the game?

Imagine a world in which you could reinvent football.

It's a dream, of course. Just a bit of fun. But stick with us.

What if you had the power to change any of the game's laws and potentially bring to an end countless hours of discussion about handball, offside, video assistant referees, or anything else you want to?

In that spirit, we asked players, pundits and even referees what football could look like if we ripped up the rulebook and started afresh.

Think of it as a manifesto for reinventing the game so many of us love.

Here's what we came up with...

Reinventing Football: Which laws should change? Handball? Offside? Penalties?

Imagine if you could make one change to football. We've asked players, pundits and referees what they would do.

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