How can football's lawmakers fix Premier League's corner chaos?

Grappling has dominated the news conferences of managers over the last week. And the frustration appears to be on the rise.

Everton boss David Moyes feels the onus has to be on the referees. He said the lack of action has been "poor".

Take Everton versus Manchester United last week.

The Toffees had several players standing on top of goalkeeper Senne Lammens. Leny Yoro was pushed into the net by James Tarkowski. Then Harry Maguire got involved too.

"You get the feeling now that referees really don't want to get involved in any of it," Moyes said. "It's really poor that they've not tried to deal with it."

With set-pieces becoming ever more important in the Premier League, it means teams seem to be upping their distraction tactics.

"Attackers crowd the goalkeeper hoping to nullify his movement and effectiveness," Cann explained.

"Defenders, meanwhile, try to block the attackers' run and seem more interested in looking at their opponent than the ball in many cases."

Moyes said that Arsenal have been the trailblazers for these "dark arts".

"Blocking has become a big part of it," Moyes added. "Let's be fair, the best at it - but with style - would be Arsenal."

It was prevalent in Sunday's Premier League game between Arsenal and Chelsea. On one corner there were numerous Gunners players holding the player they were marking.

Chelsea conceded two goals from corners in their 2-1 loss at Emirates Stadium. Manager Liam Rosenior said he is now "taking control" of coaching the defending of set-pieces.

Perhaps it has got to the stage where the image of the game is being harmed by players being thrown to the ground time and again.

Liverpool boss Arne Slot thinks it is making the Premier League a poorer product.

"Most of the games I see in the Premier League are not for me a joy to watch," the Dutchman said on Monday. "My football heart doesn't like it."

Slot believes that fouls would be given in other leagues. In England, the goal stands.

And it is clearly a successful tactic in England.

The Premier League (27%) has the highest number of set-piece goals in the top five leagues this season. Serie A (24%) is second, followed by the Bundesliga (22%), La Liga (19%) and Ligue 1 (17%).

The Premier League, though, believes it has the threshold in a good place.

At the start of the season, a survey of coaches, captains, referees and pundits were overwhelming in favour of the current threshold for fouls and video assistant referee (VAR) intervention.

The Premier League did place a stronger emphasis on holding, to cover only the most obvious examples.

Seven penalties have been awarded for the offence this season, four after a VAR intervention.

Professional Game Match Officials (PGMO) would argue that it only gets highlighted in the media when high-profile cases crop up.

But social media is regularly flooded with images of players being held, and no VAR intervention has been forthcoming.

In supporters' minds, VAR is penalising microscopic offsides, but missing what they see as clear fouls.