This is a bit of a classic. I googled rules for abandoning football games and got a very useful summary on http://www.footballsite.co.uk/Statistics/Articles/DidYouKnow01.htm within a few seconds. So it appears that there is no rule as such, it is up to the Football League or whoever depending on...
Not intentionally perhaps but it ends up as 'look at me' because so much is uninformed bull. Anyone who can write on a forum clearly has the knowhow to google 'rules for registration of players' to use the latest example. Yesterday, we had that refs cannot abandon a game after a certain...