World Cup watchers back time-wasting and VAR changes<\/p>\n
Those rule changes that we asked about are welcomed by the majority of World Cup watchers.<\/p>\n
This includes 78% who approve of referees now having the ability to start a 5 second countdown if players are taking too long with throw-ins or goal kicks, 70% backing requiring substituted players to leave the pitch within 10 seconds, and 60% for requiring players to stay off the pitch for one minute if they have to be treated by physios during stoppages (with some exceptions).<\/p>\n
There have also been developments in terms of the video assistant referee (VAR), which have also been met with positivity.<\/p>\n
Three quarters (77%) approve of allowing VAR reviews for red or yellow cards for fouls that have been mistakenly given to the wrong player, 73% support VAR reviews for mistakenly issued second yellow cards, and 54% agree with allowing VAR reviews for the awarding of corner kicks.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s coming home?<\/p>\n
Prior to the tournament beginning, one in five (22%) of adults in England who expected to watch a great deal or fair amount of the World Cup felt that England had a realistic chance of winning the tournament, rising to 33% if we include those who feel they could at least make the final.<\/p>\n
Three weeks in and the number who think England could win has fallen to 13%, and to 19% for all those who still believe they could make the top two.<\/p>\n
The number who think England\u2019s best realistic outcome is to reach the semis has remained largely unchanged (33% before vs 31% now). Instead, fans are now more likely to think that England\u2019s can probably only make it as far as the quarter finals (32%, up from 21%), while 12% think they are unlikely to progress past the round of 16 (up from 4%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World Cup watchers back time-wasting and VAR changes Those rule changes that we asked about are welcomed by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-523248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}