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Teams used five or more subs in a game 176 times in the season just finished - up from 48 in the previous campaign and 70 in 2020-21. Bret Myers has tested it against 1,800 fixtures across England, Germany Spain and Italy and believes that if a team is behind, it is vital for the manager to make his first substitution before the 58th minute. The referees and the assistant referees are still responsible for the decision on the field of play. The issue would need to be raised before a Premier League shareholders meeting, then voted upon by clubs. And, as things stand, there is no meeting scheduled. The International Football Associations Board (IFAB) has agreed to make permanent the temporary revision to Law Three of the sport, which allowed teams to make up to five substitutions per game. This was initially introduced as a temporary measure until December 2022 to ensure that player fitness could be more carefully managed during the condensed schedule of last summer.

A number of managers spoke out against the decision, with Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp and Manchester City's Pep Guardiola both saying the it was partly responsible for a spate of muscular injuries across the top flight. Concussion regulations now allow for one more additional change, with the opposing team given the opportunity to match that. Celtic top of the table again The days when randomness affected decisions, or when managers had an inkling that their striker would win for them are gradually being consigned to the past.

The Premier League was the only major competition to abandon the rule because some clubs felt it gave those with bigger squads an unfair advantage. Substitutions during matches were not added to the Laws of the Game until 1958, but the number permitted steadily increased until three became the norm from 1995 onwards.

The pandemic changed all that in 2020, though. In a move to reduce the impact of fixture congestion caused by Covid-19, world governing body Fifa allowed competition organisers to allow for a maximum of five substitutes. In addition, the Premier League will remove twice-weekly testing of players and staff from 4 April and move to symptomatic testing only. Ifab approved a trial external-link in December 2020 which only allowed for permanent concussion substitutions, although the Professional Footballers' Association has called for temporary substitutions to be brought in as part of the testing. The lowest amount of goals scored by substitutes in a campaign in the past 18 top-flight seasons was 49 in 2008-09 (9% of all goals) and 2018-19 (8% of all goals). Judging from statistics supplied by Opta for Scotland's top flight, it is perhaps too early to say whether the five-substitute rule can decide the title race.

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One factor that affected the last campaign was the World Cup, which halted domestic competition for around six weeks from mid-November and meant the final games of the season (Scottish Cup final and Premiership play-off finals) took place in early June.

In light of these high-profile casualties, the FA eventually agreed to experiment with the idea of substitutions. It was begrudging acceptance, as the FA News reported at the time: “The general consensus of opinion would appear to be that, in principle, the use of substitutes in competitive football was not desirable.” While other countries introduced substitutions in their domestic leagues in the 1950s, the FA dragged their heels, to the serious detriment of some clubs and players. Roy Dwight – who is perhaps better known as Elton John’s cousin – opened the scoring for Nottingham Forest against Luton in the 1959 FA Cup final before breaking his leg in the 33rd minute. Forest were 2-0 up when Dwight went off and they just about held on, winning the final 2-1. When it first came in, I thought 'why?' I didn't agree with it at the time, but now it's just become the norm. There's two sides to it - I think it definitely benefits a bigger club with a bigger squad and more strength in depth. You can basically use near enough your whole squad on the bench. It will now implemented prior to the 2022-23 season at the discretion of the organisers of a competition. That is 20 more than the next highest season - 2007-08. Interestingly, that campaign was the last to feature three Scottish teams in European group stage action until 2022-23.During United's 3-2 victory over Aston Villa, Hernandez came on at half-time, shortly before his side went 2-0 down. In the 40 minutes that followed, the striker they call Chicharito had three shots at goal and all three led to goals that turned around a lost match. It has been found that teams are roughly 40 to 45 per cent successful when following the rule and 18 to 22 per cent when not," Myers writes. Ifab says the substitutions can be made on three occasions during a match, excluding any changes at half-time, while a potential sixth change can be made if a match goes to extra time. Fifa has held trials of semi-automated offside technology at the Fifa Club World Cup and the Fifa Arab Cup and could use it at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar later this year.

Teams were first given "temporary dispensation" to make five substitutions per match by Fifa in April following the Covid-19 outbreak.The Scottish Premiership returned to three at the start of the 2021-22, but that was reversed mid-season, with teams able to name up to nine players on their benches, amid concerns over isolation measures. This season's champions, Celtic, had the most goals by substitutes with 24 (21% of their 114 total), followed by runners-up Rangers with 14 (15%) then fourth-placed Heart of Midlothian (16%) and St Johnstone (24%), both with 10.