Video refereeing: "Use technology to help referees" (Martin Glenn, FA)

"It's trying to get consensus on how we can best use technology to help referees. The game has never been faster, referees have never been fitter but players are getting quicker," said Martin Glenn, CEO of the FA, ahead of the annual business meeting of the IFAB at the Royal Garden in London (ENG) on 07/01/2016.

Video refereeing will feature on the agenda of the annual business meeting of the IFAB which acts as a preparatory meeting for the annual general meeting (in Cardiff, WAL, from 04 to 06/03/2016) -- the only forum in which changes to football’s Laws of the Game can be made," said the international federation. "The IFAB has been working on potential scenarios and clear protocols for how it could be tested, with the idea that well-run experiments would be the best way to understand the pros and cons of video assistance in full," said FIFA on 22/12/2015.

"We will look back in 15-20 years' time and wonder how we never had it. We are probably at a point where human endurance can't go much further so, at that point, if you can balance the flow of the game with smart use of…