Do Football Rules Need Revitalizing?

Sunday. May 11th, 2008. It's the last matchday of the season in the Premier League.
Apparently, a lot is still to be decided in the title race. Manchester United has 84 points, and a +56 goal difference, while Chelsea also has 84 points, but only a +39 goal difference.
That means that, if Manchester United was to win, by, say, one goal, (and they are playing at Wigan, a team renowned for always being crushed with ease by Ferguson's team, no matter what the venue), Chelsea would have to win by 20 goals, or more, to obtain the title.
Of course, Man. U. ends up beating Wigan, by two goals, and Chelsea is so abject on the day that they cannot even bag a win against Bolton, at home.

Almost one year later. Spain. Primera Division. May 2nd, 2009. Real Madrid has a chance of getting to within one point of Barcelona, at the top of the standings, by beating their eternal rivals in El Clasico, at the Bernabeu, with four more matches left.
But they fail miserably. Barcelona wins 6-2, away from home, and Real never gets another point till the end of the season.
Barca wins the title with a +70 goal difference, and Real finishes with +31.

How can two teams be so close on points, but so far apart in goal difference? (which, quite frankly, oftentimes says more about form and consistency than points do)

This, to me, signals that there is something very wrong with official football rules.
I'm talking about rules everywhere, not just in Spain or England.

How come a team that wins 8-0 gets the same reward, in points, as a team that barely makes it 2-1 in the 90th minute? It's weird, and nasty, for the team that plays well, and for its fans.
On the other hand, it takes only one miserable error, one slip-up, or even a refereeing mistake, leading to your team conceding one unlucky goal, at the wrong time... and, if you're just leading by one, all of a sudden you lose two points and possibly the nice position you fought so hard in hope of achieving.

No! These rules that give three points for any kind of a win, and just one for a draw, are stupid, dumb, old-fashioned, retarded rules. They don't really succeed in making teams always go for the win, regardless of what those people who introduced them everywhere in the footballing world, in the early '90s, said.
They took a pathetic rule, from a pathetic league (- guess which federation was awarding three points for a win first? -) and thought this would revolutionize football.

But it made it more unfair, is what it did.

That's not to say that the two-points-for-a-win rule was much better. ...Although it was more balanced, I would argue.

However, not to beat around the bush any further, here's what I'm proposing:

To truly reward spectacular, deserving teams, larger goal differences in a match have to be worth more. And teams who lose big have to be going down easier, too.
(For example, in the Portuguese Primeira Liga 2009-2010, Belenenses finished with 23 points and a -21 goal difference, and was relegated, while Setubal had 25 points but a -28 goal difference and stayed up. Moreover, Belenenses won at Setubal 2-1 on the last matchday, but they knew they were going down no matter what. Just imagine if Setubal could have lost points that game [sic!], and if Belenenses could have gained more than 3 points with a victory there. It could have been a cracking encounter!...)

So, let's get to the point:

1) A win by a one-goal difference should be worth 2 points in the standings;
2) A win by two or three goals should be worth 3 points;
3) A loss by one or two goals should not cause any gain in the standings for that team, so it should be 0 points;
4) A loss by three or four goals should be -1 [sic!] points;
5) A win by four or five goals should give the winning team 4 points;
6) A loss by five, six or seven goals should be worth -2 points;
7) A win by six, seven or eight goals should award 5 points;
8) A loss by anywhere from eight to eleven goals should be -3 points;
9) A win by nine to twelve goals should be 6 points;
10) A loss by more than and including twelve goals should be -4 points;
11) A win by more than and including thirteen goals should award 7 points to the victor;
Note: In those leagues where such goal differences of more than 12-13 goals are more frequent than just being freak occurences, obviously the rules could be taken further;
12) Any kind of draw should still give 1 point to each team involved.

To illustrate, Real Madrid - FC Barcelona 2-6 would subtract 1 point from Real's total and add 4 to Barcelona's points.
Make it interesting and rewarding, is what all of this is saying! Every goal should count.

Additional Mention: Goal difference very rarely makes a difference, but it should still be counted in those truly, actual, head-to-head races, where the difference between goal differences is very close to zero. (What I'm saying is, only if the rules above still lead to two teams having the same number of points, the goal difference as a separating criterion could still apply because it is possible that one team would have +39 goal difference, let's say, and one could have +37 goal difference, even though they could be tied on points at that point.)

To sum up, I know there are always people who say "Oh, we don't need any change. We feel everything is fine the way it is. Long live the status quo!" But isn't that the atitude of a person who wants to control things, and who cares more about his current financial well-being and power than about fairness and future progress?

And imagine how hard it would be for the teams who spend money getting their adversaries to drop points to anticipate when, where and how that money would be best spent.
(And how interesting final matchdays would be, if turn-arounds of 10 points or more in one matchday could be possible.)