To think that this is a much better idea than going to penalties.

[Oversize]

One handed egg and spoon race.

Fastest team to get 5 players over the finish line with unbroken eggs on their spoons.
1 hand tied behind their backs but they can scoop up dropped eggs.

In the event of a dead heat, repeat the race with the introduction of a three legged element 6 players from each team.

Love these ideas, none of which are really that much more ridiculous than a penalty shootout! I'd happily watch any of these

So many brilliant ideas here! Love the extra balls idea .

I’d love to see Krypton Factor challenges instead of penalties. Physical ability would be no problem, but who would they pick for the Observation round (Pickford?) Mental agility (Rashford?) General knowledge? (Harry Kane seems like he’d be good at a pub quiz!) Could wreak havoc on the team selection if they have to balance out Krypton Factor skills as well as football skills.

Dodgeball.

Or what’s the time Mr wolf. I’d watch every match if it was settled like that!

Tug of war

Yes theses are all much more sensible.

'What's the time Mr Wolf'🤣

Golden snitch. First team to capture it gets extra points

Water fight
Singing contest of the national anthems... teams must be word perfect.
Chess

Or most drastic... draw means draw and they share the title...

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

Or most drastic... draw means draw and they share the title...

Not dramatic enough. We need an actual winner.

Injury time, Blood Bowl style. The ball is removed from play and the players have a few minutes to incapacitate their opponents before the ball is returned and play resumes.

Tug of war surely.

I think they should start moving the goalposts in when they go to extra time so the pitch gets smaller and smaller. After all they're tired after 90 mins so this way they wouldn't have to run as far (and they'd be more chance of goals).

Failing that a fan team consisting of under 10s only.

I think they should stop and take one penalty each every 5 minutes of extra time.
Simultaneously at both ends, so there isn't the advantage of going first.
But I like the idea of removing players, so maybe once the player has taken his penalty he goes off.

A game we play at Cubs...
Everyone has a number. Leader shouts a number, those two players play against each other.

We do it as hockey but it would work as football...

I think using the yellow / red cards somehow is a great plan and would encourage better play.

My dc are very keen on a sin bin like in ice hockey. That would make things more interesting.

This all sounds like the new version of Wii Party

What about picking 11 fans at random to play a golden goal. Added element of surprise, are they good, do they have 2 left feet, are they supporting the opposition 🤷🏻‍♀️

‘If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball…’

@ProfSprout

I think using the yellow / red cards somehow is a great plan and would encourage better play.

My dc are very keen on a sin bin like in ice hockey. That would make things more interesting.

The problem with that is that it puts too much power and strain on the ref, who would get far too much influence in who wins.

As an aside, there’s goal line technology and VAR with all its camera angles and 3D images for deciding offside but I still don’t understand why they don’t have ‘stop the clock’ like rugby.

And the ref might be useless- and not give Jorginho a red card for deliberately cutting Grealish’s thigh open with his boot studs. And only give a yellow for grabbing a player by the neck and throwing him to the ground off the side of the pitch. The final was a farce, those two Italian players should both have been sent off. And the result would have been v different.

My DC hadn't watched football before the final and was shocked at the "cheating" ie: pulling people down and tripping them over.

He thinks anyone "cheating" should have to go off for a time out where presumably they have a little think about how they behaved. I dont know if he thinks they should say sorry when they come back on or not.

Mind you when they went to extra time he asked if that meant there would be football tomorrow and when I explained he said "what now??" Its a idea...

He is also of the opinion that the teams must be quite bad because when they play football at school there are lots of goals and "they have been playing for ages and only got 1 each!"

I love kids.

After we scored we could have just crammed all 11 of our players in the goal and just braced ourselves to have the ball wanged at us for 88 minutes... Probably would have sustained less injuries than playing on field against Italy?

Game of Tig or a dip like we did as kids
The only one I can think of is ip dip dog shit you are not it.

Yep, yellow card idea has potential. I reckon everyone who was shown one during the match has to come off, and game continues with whoever's left. Would hopefully make everyone (Italians) better behaved..