hello all,

basically i'm suggesting a new rule which should be brought in accross all of the FIFA leagues regarding a very specific issue which involves:

Opposition players interfering with goalkeepers.

this is an infuriating issue which ive encountered many times in publics (singles and pro clubs) whereby the opposition will hover around a GK as he kicks from his hands in order to intercept the ball, or tries to block a GK as a member of their team takes a free-kick.

both of these are against the rules in real life, but for some reason not in FIFA 12, so in my opinion, in the interest of fair play, there should be a rule against profiteering from such instances..

opinions please, Zizou

Now......you have to be VERY careful here....in principle I agree wholeheartedly, especially with the 'hanging around at goalkicks' scenario.

However, we fell foul of this in XFL as far as we were accused of obstructing the goalkeeper at a free kick, when in fact our striker was trying to stand in front of the keeper therefore not preventing him from moving but obscuring the line of the ball......and so it became a very subjective matter

Its a little hard to enforce due to it being very subjective in those circumstances.

I personally would go for a ban on the standing in front of the goalkeeper at goal kicks for sure....other areas would need much debate in my eyes.

this is a very good opinion, i understand that this is very subjective..

ill fine detail what i mean:

when a keeper attempts to clear a ball from hands, it would be fine for an attacker to attempt to delay the kick, however, if it hits the attacker (it would normally be a free-kick for obstruction) then i would hope that the possession would be returned to the other team rather than the attacker going on to score.

from set pieces, i would suggest that it would be fine for attackers to be near the keeper, but that its not ok if they physically try to push or move the keeper out of position.. other than that anything is fair game.

it is frustrating i know, i use it myself to slow the play down run in front of his line allowing a few valuable seconds to get my players back in position. my intention is not to win the ball though simply to slow any counter attack down.

and i see nothing wrong in that personally,

if it was brought in as a rule it would be near impossible to manage for us admins, we would require proof and how many players bother recording their match? we could not go of someones word.

there is a little rule already in place called the sportmanship rule, this purposely attempting to win the ball from the goal keepers kick would come under that rule as in real life it is not allowed so is poor sportsmanship but again proof would be needed in order for an admin to act.

in singles you tend to be in the same lobby, if a player is obv attempting to win the ball from a goalkick then tell him to stop it, but dont confuse slowing a goal keeper down with attempting to win the ball.

I hope that helps Zak

Yep...my feelings exactly......think most teams would abide by that, think if we get through this season unscathed, and then maybe it might be worth looking into??

how about i add a section in the rules about sportsmanship and detail such examples?

TLS Zizou wrote:


Its a difficult one, and I am on the fence a little. Personally I am not bothered by it, however I can see why people would be.

In a league which is based on fun and not sweating wins (even though we all know everyone just playus to win in the FIFA league lol, lets be honest.. Its Football at the end of the day!).

I think there would be a lot of teams complaining about teams doing it, and no proof either way unless you had a capture card, so their wuld be complaints with no way of acting on them. Teams would get annoyed that the complaint isnt acted on, and teams would get get annoyed to be accused of cheating.

Like I said... Im on the fence here

how about a home page post about the sportmanship rule, as i briefly looked through and didnt see this straight off the bat.

if its too hard to make an actual rule up, maybe it would be best just to highlight the above along with a few examples maybe?

I also think that is the best thing for all concerned....sportsmanship FTW!!

i deffo cant find the sportsmanship rule in either the pro clubs or the singles rules set.

yer, i had a look through and it seems to have been removed or missed out, it defo was in season one of the pro clubs and i will be adding it to next seasons rules.

prob was lost in the cutting and pasting of the rules, easily happens

Walking on glass with this one to be honest, not possible to manage and to be honest I can see this causing head aches with tons of complaints being sent in..

I think putting pressure on a pro keeper is a legit tactic to be honest

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I agree, think the admins will be under constant pressure from teams trying to claim default or complaining

As much as we would like to Man-Manage this, it is as Billy Says Impossible for us to look after and Manage.

We would hope Teams would play in the correct spirit and use
" sportsmanship ".

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I would personally say that a rule for someone intentionally looking to score from the hovering around the keeper would be nice, people are suggestng its none managable.

Hovering around the keeper to prevent him from spreading a quick counter is fine but if the scenario changed and someone scored from it then i'm sure it would be in the match highlights which could then be used to penalise the opposing player.

If that did happen and there was no proof then im sure there would be another time when the opposing player gets caught from another game and to take it on the chin and say well i was sporting, you weren't as much and i feel i had the better game lol