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The average height of a male when they invented football goals was only about 5'5". They're pretty much playing to the size as it was originally intended.

They're just floating ideas to improve the quality of the game for 2019, don't think that they need to pay any attention to what was intended 100 years ago.

 

The Chinese men's league has the same problem regarding keepers, hence why they have the rule that every CSL team needs to use Chinese goalkeepers to try and improve the nation's keepers

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They're just floating ideas to improve the quality of the game for 2019, don't think that they need to pay any attention to what was intended 100 years ago.

The Chinese men's league has the same problem regarding keepers, hence why they have the rule that every CSL team needs to use Chinese goalkeepers to try and improve the nation's keepers

They should make them wear stilts. And open their eyes.

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They're just floating ideas to improve the quality of the game for 2019, don't think that they need to pay any attention to what was intended 100 years ago.

 

The Chinese men's league has the same problem regarding keepers, hence why they have the rule that every CSL team needs to use Chinese goalkeepers to try and improve the nation's keepers

There are plenty of very capable female goalkeepers who are more than capable of keeping out the opposition. They don't need to worry about the goals, which are a perfectly reasonable size.

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The average height of a male when they invented football goals was only about 5'5". They're pretty much playing to the size as it was originally intended.

 

Former ref and full-time wanker Kenny Clark was on Offside years ago saying that if he could change one rule, it'd be to make the goals bigger as people now are, on average, taller than when the sizes were first set meaning the goals are now smaller, relatively.

 

Wouldn't really agree with it as it'd start getting a bit silly, but thought it was an interesting way of looking at it.

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There are plenty of very capable female goalkeepers who are more than capable of keeping out the opposition. They don't need to worry about the goals, which are a perfectly reasonable size.

A previous incarnation of Morton Ladies had an excellent goalkeeper, Donna (Harris ?), who went on to play for Scotland.

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A few years ago there were people who argued that goals should increase in size due to the dimensions originally being based on a shorter average height. That argument seems to have faded away.

Crazy. But the ball was much heavier then as well, and pinging it into the top corner was presumably less common.

 

I remember the very first laws of the game didn't have provision for a maximum height or a crossbar at all - it was only a little later that the eight feet rule came in. Probably the mid-1860s.

 

Then, two generations after that, you can see the ball was still heavy:

 

 

By the laws of the game at that time it would be the same weight *at kickoff* as it is now - just under a pound. But anyone of a certain age who played with a leather ball will know that exposure to British weather will soon make a mockery of that.

 

Basically I think a couple of things will have happened. The increase in athleticism, ability at striking the ball, and the composition of the balls themselves, have compensated for the size of the goal. And also, just as with any other sport, there will have been from the very start a selection bias for tall players (tall guys will be put in goal or in defense.) Presumably the same changes are happening in the women's game, but from a lower benchmark, given how short a time it's been professional, and given women's shorter frames and lesser muscle distribution generally.

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Crazy. But the ball was much heavier then as well, and pinging it into the top corner was presumably less common.

 

I remember the very first laws of the game didn't have provision for a maximum height or a crossbar at all - it was only a little later that the eight feet rule came in. Probably the mid-1860s.

 

Then, two generations after that, you can see the ball was still heavy:

 

 

 

By the laws of the game at that time it would be the same weight *at kickoff* as it is now - just under a pound. But anyone of a certain age who played with a leather ball will know that exposure to British weather will soon make a mockery of that.

 

Basically I think a couple of things will have happened. The increase in athleticism, ability at striking the ball, and the composition of the balls themselves, have compensated for the size of the goal. And also, just as with any other sport, there will have been from the very start a selection bias for tall players (tall guys will be put in goal or in defense.) Presumably the same changes are happening in the women's game, but from a lower benchmark, given how short a time it's been professional, and given women's shorter frames and lesser muscle distribution generally.

For all your faults Mr President, your insights and enthusiasm for the game are outrageous. Fair play.
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