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Breaking the law

24 October 2016

  • Tim Howard and his Rapids could be playing in a single final at the top seed’s home field – but it’s time for a change.

    It's time to introduce a two-legged MLS Cup - with a twist

    The single final is insufficient, and the two-leg final doesn’t reward the higher-seeded team for their regular-season performance. So why not combine the two?

15 September 2016

  • Cristiano Ronaldo pictures exactly where Iceland can park their bus

    Breaking the Law: punish football teams for negative play

    Sick of players parking the bus and playing for a draw? Then maybe it’s time to start making sure they feel the wrath of the referee for sitting back

29 March 2016

  • Persistent fouling can ruin the flow of a game

    Breaking the Law: basketball should introduce soccer's advantage rule

    NBA and college games can end in a mindnumbing parade of free throws and timeouts. Maybe the more positive team should be rewarded

5 June 2015

  • Jack Grealish, the lucky subject of England and the Republic of Ireland's affections.

    Breaking the Law: why Fifa should relax its eligibility rules

    The latest in our series suggesting revolutionary ways to improve sport focuses on allowing players qualifying for more than one country to switch allegiances after they’ve declared. And then back again, if they so wish

14 January 2015

  • Jacob Steinberg

    Breaking the law: introduce a sin-bin in football for not-so-nasty fouls

    Jacob Steinberg
    Sometimes a player doesn’t need or deserve an early bath so much as a little sit down, and perhaps it’s time to let him have one

3 September 2014

  • Post-try play

    Breaking the Law: a three-point conversion system for scoring a try

    Michael Butler: The latest in our series introduces the idea of a post-try play in rugby union, akin to the NFL two-point conversion system

6 August 2014

  • Matt Cleary

    Breaking the Law: bring back contested scrums in rugby league

    Matt Cleary
    Matt Cleary: It’s technically legal but fighting for the ball is all but dead. A revival would make the game more random and exciting

17 July 2014

  • Usain Bolt

    Breaking the Law: why the rule on false starts in athletics is an ass

    Daniel Harris: all are capable of false starts and to disqualify a runner after only one is to miss the point of the event

21 May 2014

  • Victor Anichebe and West Brom

    Breaking the Law: relegate any football team who cannot gain a point per game

    Nick Miller: The latest in our series suggesting revolutionary ways to improve sport focuses on whether there should be a minimum standard to meet in the Premier League

14 May 2014

  • The miss rule in snooker has been Ronnie O'Sullivan's nemesis and stifles his creativity.

    Breaking the Law: get rid of the miss rule in snooker

    Niall McVeigh: The latest in our series suggesting ways to improve sport focuses on the mind-numbing repetitiveness of the miss rule

24 April 2014

  • The referee, Alberto Undiano Mallenco, sends off Real Madrid's Sergio Ramos against Barcelona

    Breaking the Law: eradicate double punishment for penalty area fouls

    Jacob Steinberg: The latest in our series suggesting revolutionary ways to improve sport focuses on a contentious issue in football

17 April 2014

  • England v Australia broad howler

    Breaking the Law: take technology out of the hands of cricketers

    Dan Lucas: The DRS was introduced to remove the 'howler' but it remains a clutch of 'TV gimmicks' of 'spurious accuracy' and should be taken out of the hands of cricketers

9 April 2014

  • A ball girl

    Breaking the Law: abolish the second serve from tennis

    Barry Glendenning: In the latest of our series suggesting revolutionary new rules to improve sport, we look at an instance where failure is rewarded

2 April 2014

  • Paul Doyle

    Breaking the Law: why football set-pieces need urgent reform

    Paul Doyle
    Paul Doyle: The worst thing about the laws is that they do precisely the opposite of what they are supposed to do: they persecute the victim

25 March 2014

  • Australia's Shane Watson plays a shot

    Breaking the Law: open up a whole new method of dismissal in cricket

    Nick Miller: The latest in our series suggesting revolutionary ways to improve sport looks at changing the lbw rule

11 March 2014

  • injury time

    Breaking the law: take injury-time out of football referees' hands

    Toby Moses: In the latest of our new series suggesting rules to improve the sport we look at the thorny issue of football's added time

26 February 2014

  • Manchester City's Martin Demichelis

    Breaking the Law: take the penalty area out of penalty decisions

    In the first of our new series suggesting revolutionary new rules to improve sport, we think outside the box when it comes to spot-kick decisions
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