What do you think of this idea?

I've said this for years- way better than penalties

Works in ice hockey because the game is not stopped. Players change on the fly. This would have to apply in football or teams would use it for timewasting, getting a breath , back, breaking up a dominant period or just a coaches timeout talk. Gameswouldlastforever.

Ban extra time in cups,..yep agreed.

How is 6 a side penalties closer to proper football, than 6 side actually playing football

A penalty shoot-out is ok to decide ties.
If only one substitute was allowed my guess is a win would be more likely after 90 minutes.
Now it is like tag-team wrestling with constant stoppages for substitutions.
Each team ends the 90 minutes with fresh players.

VAR is another big delay to play.

And in the 2026 World Cup we are going to have "water breaks" which are only a device to introduce TV advertising breaks.
Yes, players need hydration, but they can do that in the many stoppages (corners, free kicks, penalties, goal kicks).
We will end up like American football, a game with two teams of 50 players, play totally interrupted by TV advertising.
Unlimited substitutions as mentioned above would reduce the game to a farce.

I’ve long since opined that extra time should be done away with.  A draw should go straight to pelantys for me.  Any game with just a goal of separation would set up for a far more entertaining final fifteen minutes and, we might even see drawing opponents actually going for the win then too.  Apart from that it would help the most vital components of it all - the players whose bodies must take a big hit.  120 mins. plus must be a significant hazard to health in high degree temperatures.  And we would be spared serious levels of tedium. 

The simpler the better for me.

The golden goal rule was fine.
Except childish footballers couldn't accept it and if they lost chased the ref down the tunnel looking for someone to blame.
Might as well just go straight to pens.
Extra Time is a waste of space.

Well if you dont like the golden goal, I have other bad ideas.

How about a football version of the Razzies?
We have had SPOTY, the Ballon D'Or, The football writers and Players of the Year.
Time to honour the worst people in the game.

Categories could include..

Mug of the Year - player.

Mug of the Year - club.

Dirtiest b@ast@rd.

Greatest practitioner of 'Outhousery'.

Worst Manager.

Worst Owner.

Biggest Diver.

Worst Commentator.

Worst Pundit.

Worst Journalist.

Most Deluded fanbase.


Any contributions gratefully recieved

I liked the "golden-goal" idea.

fwiw

mug of the year
Mbappe, he might have scored 59 goals but he moved from PSG to Madrid to win the UCL. Only for his old club to improve exponentially without him.

Mug of the year team.
Got to go for Liverpool. The way they got mugged off by Trent in that press conference was a joy. Then went out and spent like Real to get worse. Classic overcompensation.

Dirtiest Bstard.
Cuti Romero can act like a schoolyard bully on a snickers-bar-sugar-rush but he is wholly ineffective. Dani Carvajal gets the award cos his team wins.

Outhouse merchant.
Has to be Emi Martinez.

Worst Manager.
Nancy gets a mention but Russell Martin at Rangers surely deserves the prize.

Worst Owner
Dejphon Chansiri sheff weds. Yikes.

Biggest Diver.
Anthony Gordon. No question. CHelsea fans. I hear you.

Worst commentator.
Special mention for Sam Matterface who makes the england experience particularly unbearable. But anyone who has had the misfortune to sit thru TNT sports output has to recognise Darren Fletcher as the worst.

Worst Pundit.
RedNev going downhill faster than Franz Klammer in his heighday but the award has to go to Steve MacManaman. His TNT double act with Darren Fletcher is the worst since Mike and Bernie Winters.

Worst Journo.
Henry Winter. Got sacked off from the Times over a year ago. No wonder. His anodyne output is mindnumbingly tedious.
I shall always recall a match in lockdown between PSG and Marseille.
Neymar as he usually did in such matches got himself sent off, claiming racial abuse.
Winter was straight on Twitter with 'I stand with Neymar'. Blatantly clear he hadnt watched a moment of the match. I did. Neymar and the accused Jordan Amavi had been going at eachother for 90 mins and it was no surprise that the ref sent the pair of them off. Amavi was himself of Romany descent.
The French FA having reviewed all evidence wisely decided the punishment for the red cards alone would stand.
No doubt in the dear old premier league Henry would have got his way and the Olympique Marseille player banned for 47 games or whatever.

Worst Ref.
As cringeworthy as it is to see EPL refs in action, especially when they are given big international games the award has to go to the French ref Clement Turpin. Looks like Puggsly from the Addams Family and really does think the game is all about him.

Not a bad review.  Very welcome and enjoyable. 
“than Frank Klammer in his heyday”!    My old ma loved him.
Gordon definitely a liability, for all his talent.