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FA want video to punish divers

The FA is set to lobby Fifa for the introduction of video replays to identify and punish players guilty of diving.
Football’s world governing body is set to meet in March and the FA hopes to raise the issue then.
"We’ve already asked Fifa to allow retrospective punishments and we will ask again," said an FA spokesman.
"We want to convince them it’s in the interests of fairness and the image of the game."
The spokesman added: "Whether it will be a formal item for discussion or any other business kind of thing we really don’t know at this moment in time. We are the only nation pursuing this." The players involved know who will be in trouble…

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By admin on December 13th, 2006 in Transfers & Rumours. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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One Response to “FA want video to punish divers”

  1. joe says:

    Not a chance in hell FIFA will do anything. I’d wager the left one on it.