Premier League announce two rule changes ahead of 2023/24 after Newcastle complaints

The Premier League have announced that they will introduce World Cup-style amounts of injury time to prevent time-wasting, also declaring that only one person will be allowed in the technical area. 

This comes after a season where Newcastle received a host of time-wasting complaints, with Erik ten Hag criticising how little the ball is in play during out games. In addition, Jason Tindall also a prominent figure on the touch line alongside Eddie Howe.

The duo were often in deep discussion in the technical area, but from the 2023/24 season this will now be banned, with any aggressive behaviour towards either sides’ staff members resulting in an automatic red card. 

The Premier League have also released a statistic that shows that the ball was only in play for 55 minutes on average last season, and will now adopt a similar injury time style that we saw used in the World Cup. 

While this will likely result in much longer games - extending it by 30 minutes at times - the aim is to eventually stamp out any time wasting in the long run.

Although this has been an issue in the game for many years, of course a ‘solution’ is only presented when Newcastle start to use these tactics to our advantage.