Find me an Alternative to Penalties

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has asked Bayern Munich honorary president Franz Beckenbauer to come up with an alternative to the "tragedy" of penalty shoot-outs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18205513

Yay or Nay?

I personally like penalties.

 

Fight?

 

This.

Quote fail AGAIN jk.


I just wonder...if Bayern won on penalties to stop the 'English' Club Chelsea from winning...would he be coming out with this ****?

 

What about a slightly improved version (like in ice hockey?) where there is a mini-set piece with perhaps 3 defenders and 2 attackers and they have to score by build-up play from 40 yds out, and losing possession forfeits that attempt + a small timelimit. Would be more skill-based than penalties and golden goal could take hours

 

Nah, it's just Blather trying to justify his existence again. Perhaps he could introduce a rule that says "in the event of a draw, the English team loses".

There is no serious alternative as far as I can see.
The golden goal idea was a shocker, imo.
I hated penalty shoot-outs when they were first introduced but I'm used to them now.

 

possession * time * territorial advantage.

team with the ball 0 points per minute in own third
team with the ball 1 point per minute in central third
team with the ball 2 points per minute in oppositions third

and to make sure they're doing something with all the possession:

final total = total points * (shots on target/total shots)

the first part makes it worthwhile to keep the ball, and to attack with it, the second part makes it more worthwhile to take shots, but hurts them for wasteful attempts.

 

Haha...made me chuckle...bang on the head.

 

At least pens are part of the game. Novelty ideas like taking a player off every five mins of extra time are not. If they want novelty they might as well accept that it's entertainment and go for the most exciting and TV-friendly idea. Which is penalties, funnily enough.

 

They could do it boxing style and use statistics like possession. But I fear that would encourage teams to park the bus and pass it around there own half.

 

He says something about taking away the essence of the game or some crap like that. If it's such a tragedy to go out on penalties then maybe the losing team should have done more in the 2 hours prior.

 

How about counting how many times you hit the woodwork?
We'd be out of sight.

 

Sounds like Come dancing. Stupid idea.

 

so, perfect for FIFA then...

 

Freekicks!

 

Penalties are awesome.

 

5 a side match full field - last man standing wins.

 

penalties are more fair than most ways.

toss a coin, thats also part of football before the game.

see 1965 cup winners cup eh?

 

Crossbar challenge.

 

Keep Uppy with no boots on.

 

Goal kicks. Who ever scores the most.

or who evers rumour gets the most retweets.