IFAB: video support for referees on a trial basis "strongly recommended" at annual business meeting

The Executive Committee of the IFAB "strongly recommends" allowing the video assistance for referees on an experimental basis to be proposed at the 130^th annual meeting of the International Football Association Board (in Cardiff, WAL, from 04 to 06/03/2016), announced FIFA following the annual business meeting of the IFAB held at the Royal Garden in London (ENG) on 07/01/2016.

The annual business meeting of the IFAB served as a preparatory meeting before the annual general meeting, the only forum in which changes to football’s Laws of the Game can be made. "The protocols for such experiments were analysed today and are set to be finalised before the AGM, which would pave the way for live trials to begin as soon as the framework and timelines have been confirmed. A number of football associations and competition organisers have already expressed an interest in running trials," said FIFA on 07/01/2015.

For a decision to be passed at the annual general meeting of the IFAB, it must gain at least 75% of the votes (6 votes out of 8). The federations English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern…