In my mind, the 2010 World Cup won’t go down as a memorable one. I can’t think of many games that will stay in the mind with positive memories.

I felt Howard Webb did a good job to keep 22 men on the pitch for as long as he did. If he’d sent one off early, he could have sent off half a dozen by half time. He couldn’t win, uproar if he sent players off early and ruined the game as a spectacle, uproar if he didn’t.

Despite all the praise for their passing game, Spain with 5 yellow cards can’t be described as angels either.

Can’t make my mind up if I enjoyed Spain or not. Their game is based on passing the opposition to death, sometimes tactically enthralling, often sterile. Sometimes I wondered whether they needed a bit of English Premiership cut and thunder. Germany came from nowhere by blending their tradition game with the pace more associated with the English game.

Watching some of Spain’s games, I know where I’d prefer to watch my football.

Watching other games, it got me thinking about some possible rule changes. So here goes, here are some that I’d like to make.

Rolling substitutions. With a fourth official, it would work like a dream. Manager signals to player, player dashes to the touchline and when he crosses the line, then the fourth official allows the substitute on. The fourth official also keeps a record of the changes. No more ambling off, no more time wasting. The only time that’s wasted is that of the team making the substitution.

Treatment in play. Its works very well for rugby league, bring it in for football. Again, no feigning injury or time wasting.

Stop watch timing as per basketball. Whilst we’re at it, if we’re trying to cut out time wasting, let’s follow many other sports, rugby and basketball included where the game is timed by an off pitch official.

Sin Bin. Harold Webb resisted the urge to use his yellow card in the World Cup Final. Introduce a rule, whereby after, say, ten team fouls, the player committing the 10^th is sent to a sin bin for 10 minutes. Fouls for the other side are wiped clean and off we go again. Its just bad luck that the player committing the tenth foul heads for the sin bin, but even if its the star defender committing an innocuous foul, then no one can argue that’s he’s not "taking one for the team".

Suarez hand ball. There was no dispute that Luis Suarez’s hand ball described a red card and prevented a certain goal. The only problem was Ghana missed the penalty kick. Again, let’s copy rugby and allow the referee to award a penalty goal. P.S. was I the only one who wondered why Suarez had to hand ball when it was just as easy to head it clear?

Goal celebrations. Why wait for the goal celebrations to run their tiresome course before the referee blows to re-start the game. Let the conceding side take the ball and kick off as soon as they (and the referee) are ready. Excessive goal celebrations eliminated at a stroke.

Goal line technology. There’s no question even, at Wimbledon, that technology isn’t always 100% reliable. Yes, there would be a cost implication and yes, that would prevent it being implemented at every level.

But hang on, we now have 6 officials in The Champions League. We have 4 at most levels of professional football. At grass roots level, we make do with one referee (if we’re lucky) and each side provides a linesman who is just about trusted to flag when the ball goes out of play. So already, we have different levels of officialdom for different levels of football. It would be difficult to implement 6 officials across all top flight senior football. They might not be perfect, they’re human, but they would certainly be a big improvement.

Whatever the rules, and they change slightly every season, there will still be disputes as they’ll always be open to interpretation. But I feel the above changes would remove some of the more blatant abuses that are prevalent at all levels of the game today.