Howard Webb says diving players will run the risk of "immediate punishment" under the introduction of the Video Assistant Referee system.

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 fact that two teams from Ireland will compete at Euro 2016 in France this month is a legacy of the divided politics of Ireland, writes Paul Rouse

Should an Irish player get sent off for fighting in the tunnel at the Stade de France before our Euro 2016 finals kick off against Sweden in June, I can tell you even now who’ll be to blame.

Christian Benteke’s controversial winner for Liverpool against Bournemouth on Monday should not have stood, the Premier League has acknowledged.

New Scottish Football Association president Alan McRae says qualifying for Euro 2016 would be the perfect tribute to the late chief executive David Taylor.

FIFA is to fund the restoration of the grave of William McCrum, the man who invented the penalty and inadvertently set the scene for decades of disappointment for the England football team.

Football Association chairman Greg Dyke will back moves to bring video replays in to help referees for key decisions such as awarding penalties.

Players in this summer’s World Cup will be banned from displaying any messages on under-shirts.

Football’s law-makers will study the use of video replays by match officials and sin-bins, it has been announced.

The Premier League is on course to beat the World Cup to the punch by introducing goal-line technology next season.

Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke hailed “a kind of revolution” as the football world prepared for today’s introduction of goal-line technology.

The former general manager of Premier League referees, Keith Hackett, has called on the Football Association to bring forward a proposal that would see match officials’ conversations recorded.

UEFA have announced they will continue with additional assistant referees in the Champions League and Europa League next season – but not goal-line technology.

A company approved by Fifa’s international board to introduce goal-line technology had proposals to deliver a similar product for the GAA knocked back.

Goal-line technology has been approved as part of the laws of football in an historic decision by the International FA Board (IFAB).

Goal-line technology is expected to finally be given the go-ahead by football's law-makers today.

The long wait for goal-line technology will reach its conclusion tomorrow when football’s law-makers meet to approve two systems.

Goal-line technology is certain to get the go-ahead from football’s law-makers next week, according to sources on the International FA Board (IFAB).

Uefa referees’ chief Pierluigi Collina leapt to the defence of the additional assistant referee experiment after Fifa president Sepp Blatter declared Ukraine’s European Championship defeat to England made goalline technology “a necessity”.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter today labelled penalty shoot-outs “a tragedy” and challenged Franz Beckenbauer to come up with an alternative.

The Football Association has stressed its desire to see goal-line technology introduced as soon as possible following Chelsea’s ’ghost goal’ against Tottenham in the FA Cup semi-final.

A report by FIFA’s anti-corruption adviser today criticised past investigations by the governing body, but stopped short of calling for probes into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup to be reopened.

QPR boss Mark Hughes accused the Football Association of using their support for goal-line technology to cover up the poor performance of the officials in today’s controversial 2-1 defeat at fellow Barclays Premier League strugglers Bolton.

The Football Association today repeated their “strong desire to see goal-line technology introduced as soon as possible”.

The Premier League will investigate whether it is feasible to bring in goal-line technology for next season ahead of a July decision by football’s law-makers.

Football’s law-makers today announced that they will go forward with final tests on two goal-line technology systems.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter insists he would “die” if he witnesses another World Cup goal-line blunder such as Frank Lampard’s disallowed goal for England.

FIFA today promised a “definitive decision” on the use of goal-line technology would be made at this summer’s International Football Association Board (IFAB) meeting.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has revealed that at least two goal-line technology systems have proved themselves fast and accurate and could be in place for the 2012-13 season.

One of the FIFA members appointed to head the world body’s clean-up drive has admitted questions still remain over the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.

There are growing fears that Britain’s special FIFA privileges are under threat following the Football Association’s failed attempt to prevent Sepp Blatter being re-elected as president.

Football’s law-makers have approved the continuation of experiments on goal-line technology for another year, Football Association general secretary Alex Horne has confirmed.

Goal-line technology is back on the agenda just seven months after being ruled out by football’s lawmakers.

Football’s lawmakers have moved a major step closer to the introduction of goal-line technology but ordered that any system to be considered will have to confirm within one second that a goal has been scored.

THE additional assistant referees system experimented with in last season’s Europa League will be used in the Champions League this year.

The additional assistant referees system experimented with in last season's Europa League will be used in the Champions League this year.

Goal-line technology will not be on the agenda when football's law-makers meet in Wales later this week, contrary to indications by FIFA president Sepp Blatter.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter yesterday attempted to defuse the crisis over refereeing by apologising to England over Frank Lampard’s disallowed goal and performing an abrupt U-turn on goal-line technology.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter today revealed he has apologised to England over Frank Lampard’s disallowed goal and admitted the world’s governing body will now be forced to look again at goal-line technology.

WHEN in March, football’s rule makers announced discussions over goal-line technology had been shelved, I remember hoping a major incident at the World Cup would show that decision to be the nonsense it was.

IT came too late to save the Republic of Ireland’s World Cup dreams but it seems the furore surrounding Thierry Henry’s infamous handball in Paris last November has persuaded UEFA of the need to give referees greater assistance.

I WAS just settling into my London hotel room, prior to heading to Fulham, when I remembered that the first FA Cup quarter-final was already well into its second half and that I could watch the remainder on television.