TL;DR

Elleray: “(Fighting players) would be banned from playing the match, but both teams would still start with 11 because they would be able to use one of the named substitutes. They would lose a substitute.”

Elleray: “If a player is injured from a challenge which is punished by a red or yellow card, he can have quick treatment on the field of play and does not have to leave. It always seemed unfair that the victim team was down to 10 men and the guilty team has 11 against 10.”

Elleray: “If a player goes off to change his boots, at the moment he has to wait until the game is stopped and the referee has to go and check his boots before he can play again. Now we are saying his boots or whatever can be checked by the fourth official, the assistant referee even, and (the player can) come back during play.”

Elleray: “Two players go off the field of play. One tries to get back on to play the ball, and the other one grabs him off the field of play to stop him going back on. At the moment the referee gives a red or yellow card and restarts with a drop ball, which is clearly wrong. So we will be giving a free kick on the touchline or the goal-line. If it’s inside the penalty area, it can be a penalty kick.”

Elleray: “If a (non-playing) substitute at the moment comes on and dives and stops the goal, it’s an indirect free kick.” And then there is the unlikely but not unforeseen situation in which a team physician comes onto the field during play. “If the doctor does it, it’s a drop ball, which again is wrong for football. Their team benefits from breaking the law. So they will become direct free kicks or penalty kicks.”

Elleray: “If a player gets sent off during kicks from the penalty mark, the other team doesn’t also go down to 10. So if it goes all the way through, the guilty team’s best player takes a second kick against the innocent team’s worst player.” In future, both teams will be reduced to the same number of kickers.

Elleray: “We are trying to make sure the laws are fair and support the team that has been offended against and don’t reward people for breaking the laws of the game.”

Elleray: “Part of the law book says when players commit an offside offense, you give a free kick where the offense occurred. The other part of the law book says you give a free kick where the player was when he was in the offside position. So a player can actually move 20 yards from being in an offside position … and it’s only the moment he plays the ball that he is penalized. The law tells you to give the free kick in two different places.

“So in future, the free kick will always be given where he commits the offside offense, even if he’s in his own half, because you cannot be in an offside position in your own half, but you can go back into your own half to commit an offside offense.”

Club logos will be allowed on corner flags. Elleray: “It happens in the Premier League, but is actually against the laws of the game.”

Elleray: “We are encouraging referees to referee according to the spirit of the game and to use common sense. … If you can play the game and there’s a minor breach of the law, report it to the authorities and sort it out afterwards. Don’t be too black and white in minor areas.”