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[quote=Anonymous]Actually "kick ins" were trialed by FIFA back in the 1990s. Wenger (Arsenal) was actually a big supporter of the idea thinking it would speed up the game, but the trials didn't go well.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/sep/25/joy-of-six-short-lived-football-rule-changes

"Of course, what has been done will be done again, there is nothing new under the sun. Kick-ins were trialled in the mid-1990s, proposed at a Fifa meeting in 1994 with everybody’s pal Sepp Blatter proclaiming that “in two years the kick-in will replace the throw-in in the laws of the game and then we will have an even faster game than we have now.” Perhaps Blatter was just trying to reclaim the roots of the game; after all, the original set of laws written in 1862 made no provision for a throw-in, and it wasn’t until 1882 that it was declared a ball departing the side of the pitch shall be returned via the double-handed throw.

Still trials were launched in the Belgian and Hungarian lower leagues, but also in the Diadora League in England (the seventh tier), which for the 1994-95 season would play guinea pig. It did not, to say the least, go down well, with some managers blindly refusing to allow their players to take kick-ins, and the new rule only served to do what most assumed it would – encourage long punted balls downfield."[/quote]

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