• Fifa’s Gianni Infantino hails ‘historic decision’ by international board
• Board rules out for now idea of managers being able to challenge decisions
• ‘It’s a period of testing – we don’t want to spoil fluidity of the game’Football’s international lawmakers have approved live trials of video technology to aid referees in what the modern Fifa president,Gianni Infantino, claimed as a “historic decision”.
Following a assembly of the International FA Board in Cardiff it was confirmed that live trials will start by 2017-18 at the latest, and bringing football a key step closer to following rugby and cricket in using video technology.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com