Game's law-makers reject proposed test in Holland despite Premier League refereeing crisis
Football was made to wait at least another year for the advent of video technology on
Saturday after the game’s rule-makers refused to authorise a live trial of television match officials.
The International Football Association board failed to reach agreement on sanctioning an experiment that would allow refereeing decisions to be overturned using broadcast footage.
The news will come as a blow to the likes of Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, who on Friday hit out again against the regulations which allowed Burnley’s Ashley Barnes to escape punishment over his horror challenge on Nemanja Matic.
It is now highly unlikely video technology will be permitted in competitions worldwide until at least 2018, a year later than it might have been had IFAB authorised a live trial in Holland’s equivalent of the FA Cup next season.
The international board, which is made up of the four home associations and Fifa, also failed to reach agreement on allowing teams to make a fourth substitution in matches which go to extra-time.
It refused to authorise abolishing the so-called triple-punishment, which sees players automatically sent off if they commit last-man fouls in the penalty area, but did agree in principle to explore removing the automatic one-match ban element of the rule.
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