Fifa delays video replay experiments despite support from assorted FAs

• One year delay at least while panels of law-making Ifab consider evidence

• Fifa had not seen same Dutch FA presentations as English and Scottish FAs

Football’s lawmakers have ruled out live experiments with video replays in the game within the next 12 months, despite support for the idea from the English and Scottish FAs. Fifa’s secretary general, Jérôme Valcke, said the decision over whether to introduce video replays was the “biggest ever” in the history of the International Football Association Board that governs the laws of the game.

At a meeting in Belfast, it was decided that live experiments should be delayed for at least 12 months while the matter is considered further by two Ifab subsidiary panels of football and technical experts.

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source Sport | The Guardian http://ift.tt/17FRAWq