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FIFA to scrap offside rule? Premier League managers question controversial Marco van Basten proposal

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has questioned the controversial proposal from FIFA technical director Marco van Basten to scrap offside.

The former AC Milan and Holland striker has suggested eight changes to football that he feels could revolutionise the game.

Van Basten's ideas include getting rid of the offside rule, replacing penalty shoot-outs with eight-second run-ups and introducing orange cards to send players to sin-bins for ten minutes.

He has also proposed that players should be involved in fewer matches each season, that games should go straight to penalties without extra-time, children's games to be limited to eight-a-side, stopping the clock every time the ball goes out in the last ten minutes and only allowing captains to speak to referees.