Football’s lawmakers are set to extend a trial of the broadcasting of video assistant referee decisions, it was announced on Saturday. An annual general meeting of the International Football Association Board in London agreed that a 12-month trial exclusively relating to VAR decisions at FIFA tournaments, which started at the Club World Cup in Morocco earlier this year, would continue …
The 100-minute matches that became routine at the World Cup in Qatar are set to become routine in club football, FIFA’s rule-making panel said Saturday. After the annual IFAB meeting held in London — involving FIFA and the four British football federations — the anti-discrimination “One Love” armband that provoked problems in Qatar with the host nation was addressed again. …
FIFA’s chief of global football development and former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger had proposed a host of rule changes to football back in 2020 including a change in offside law and introducing kick-ins instead of throw-ins. Wenger’s proposals now seem to have received attention as his ideas are set to be trialled after discussions by the International Football Association Board …
FIFA are set to take control over all VAR-related activities meaning the Premier League will lose its power to implement flexibility. Former referee and FIFA chief Pierluigi Collina will oversee the use of VAR across the world The Premier League had previously been able to use flexibility when implementing rules As reported in The Times, the organisation sent a letter …
