Up until the 2018 Laws of the Game, the penalty for having too many players on the ground was cancellation of the team's "entire" score at the time of the head count, rather than just the score in the quarter of the head count; and there was no formal allowance for a post-match review and reversal of the result if no head count had occurred. This immense penalty, which predated the interchange bench or even reserve players, was long known to be one of the great curiosities in the game's laws, and was seen so rarely that decades would usually pass without a league seeing it invoked. The rules were modernized at the end of 2018 after two high-profile incidents which, by incredible coincidence,