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The article looks at exceptional rules that changed the outcomes of football matches before being abolished. These include Italy reaching the Euro 1968 final by a coin toss, and Barbados scoring an own goal in 1994 to exploit a rule that counted a golden goal as two goals. Other abolished rules included the golden-goal and silver-goal rules, the away-goals rule—which European competitions stopped applying in the 2021–22 season—and, from 1992, the ban on goalkeepers handling a ball deliberately passed back to them with the foot. By contrast, the 1925 offside-rule change increased the number of goals scored by English First Division clubs from 1,192 to 1,703 in a single season—an increase of more than 42%. The article explains that rules were abolished for various reasons, chiefly loopholes and unintended consequences, or because they encouraged teams to play cautiously, while other changes helped transform playing styles.
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