New football law that may need to be addressed

Yes, I saw that a short while ago too - very inventive, but as you say, may lead to problems for the defender.

Only thing I can think of at the moment would be that whoever places the ball at the corner has to be the player who takes the corner, so if he taps the ball and wanders off, it is clear he’s taken it. Also would help stop the time-wasting by the attacking team where they deliberately slow the game down by swapping the player taking the corner. Could also do the same thing for throw-ins and free kicks.

Agree, although technically, if a player puts his foot on the ball then runs away for someone else to come and dribble it, hasn’t that player “taken” the corner?

Exactly and therefore the defender can collect the ball.  The linesman will be there and will have seen whether the attacker has actually taken the corner - if so, then all is good for the defender, if the attacker hasn’t touched it but has just wandered off (wasting time), free kick to the defending team.

Agree with all of you!👍

www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules/laws/football-11-11/law-17---the-corner-kick
"The ball is in play when it is kicked and clearly moves; it does not need to leave the corner area" as always open to interpretation such as "clearly moves". The fact it says it does not need to leave the corner area allows for virtually little movement at all.

www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules/laws/football-11-11/law-13---free-kicks
"is in play when it is kicked and clearly moves" once again we have interpretation of what "clearly move" means. I think here we are looking at more than a mm and of course opponents tend to play closer attention to this and the whole set up is different to a corner kick so less likely you get the 'trickery' or that I argue a team taking the free-kick would attempt such a 'trick'

www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules/laws/football-11-11/law-12---fouls-and-misconduct
It refers to "initiates a deliberate trick for the ball to be passed (including from a free kick or goal kick) to the goalkeeper with the head, chest, knee etc. to circumvent the Law, whether or not the goalkeeper touches the ball with the hands; the goalkeeper is penalised if responsible for initiating the deliberate trick" - it might be if say the corner 'trick' becomes more popular that eventually the law for corner kicks will be changed such that you cannot initiate a deliberate trick.

e.g. gk has a goalkick but would rather have a drop kick so passes ball to defender who with ball on the ground kneels down and 'heads' it back to the keeper to pick up.