Video Assistant Refs And Other Football Proposals Ruining The Beautiful Game

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Dear football lovers, if you are closely following the FIFA confederations cup, you might actually agree with me that indeed technology is killing football.

TheVideo reviews technology has actually received backlash from fans across the world with many calling upon FIFA to disband it and bring back the football they were used to.

According to Dailymail, Video reviews are not giving FIFA a quick solution at the tournament it is using to fast-track the system for the 2018 World Cup.

Both Confederation Cup games played on Sunday in Russia left teams confused by decisions - reached more slowly than expected - by referees taking advice from assistants watching multiple replays.

Video review seems to have plenty to prove to football's rule-making panel, known as IFAB. Its decision is due in March whether to approve it for use at the World Cup, as FIFA President Gianni Infantino wants.

Four incidents on just the second day of the biggest tournament so far to conduct live trials has created more controversy than FIFA expected.

That is not all.

World football's rule-makers are to consider a proposal to reduce each half of a game to 30 minutes in a bid to prevent time-wasting.

The International Football Association Board (IFAB) has outlined a raft of radical proposed changes to the rules of the game in a new strategy document titled Play Fair!.

Adopting two halves of 30 minutes with the clock stopped when the ball goes out of play is one of dozens of ideas put forward by IFAB in a bid to make football more attractive.

Among the ideas up for discussion is that of a player being allowed to pass to themselves at a free-kick, corner and goal-kick, a stadium clock which stops and starts along with the referee's watch, and allowing a goal-kick to be taken even if the ball is moving.

Other ideas up 'for discussion' include referees only blowing for half-time or full-time when the ball goes out of play, and a penalty kick being either scored or missed/saved, with players not allowed to follow up to score, in order to stop encroachment into the penalty area.

Plans which need no law changes mostly apply to IFAB's bid to combat time-wasting.

The document says match officials should be stricter on the rule which allows goalkeepers to hold the ball for six seconds.

IFAB suggests match officials should be stricter on time-keeping, stopping their watch from a penalty being awarded to the spot-kick being taken, from a goal being scored until the match resumes from the kick-off, and from the signal of a substitution to play restarting.

The proposals already being tested include the idea of only allowing captains to speak to referees to prevent match officials being mobbed. This is being trialled at the Confederations Cup in Russia, which started on Saturday.

Another proposal already being tested is a change to the order of penalty kicks in shoot-outs, known as ABBA.

Instead of teams taking alternate penalties, the new system involves team A taking the first kick, then team B taking two, then team A taking two.

-Dailymail