{"id":74139,"date":"2022-07-07T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/mls-attempts-to-stop-time-wasting-with-new-rule-will-the-premier-league-and-the-rest-of-the-world-adopt-it"},"modified":"2022-10-09T12:05:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T12:05:12","slug":"mls-attempts-to-stop-time-wasting-with-new-rule-will-the-premier-league-and-the-rest-of-the-world-adopt-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/mls-attempts-to-stop-time-wasting-with-new-rule-will-the-premier-league-and-the-rest-of-the-world-adopt-it","title":{"rendered":"MLS Attempts To Stop Time Wasting With New Rule | Will The Premier League And The Rest Of The World Adopt It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s Major League Soccer is implementing an Off-field Treatment Rule in their reserve league MLS NEXT Pro to combat time-wasting. Will the Premier League and the rest of the footballing world adopt it?Peter Vermes. IMAGO \/ ZUMA WireTime wasting is a common experience in modern-day football. Whether it occurs by delaying throw-ins and goal kicks or feigning injury, it can suck the joy out of a game.The referees have been able to combat time-wasting from dawdling on the ball by issuing a yellow card. However, it&#8217;s a tougher call when players go down with what looks like an injury.The MLS NEXT Pro Off-field Treatment Rule addresses the feigning injury issue. The rules are:If a player is suspected to have an injury and is on the ground for longer than 15 seconds, a medical crew will come onto the field to evaluate the player and assist him off the field.Once the player is off the field, the player will be treated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s Major League Soccer is implementing an Off-field Treatment Rule in their reserve league MLS NEXT Pro to combat time-wasting. Will the Premier League and the rest of the footballing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,1,135],"tags":[147,139,138,58],"class_list":["post-74139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mls","category-news","category-premier-league","tag-mls","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}