Jackling: Time to call a halt on tardiness in Japan

Peter Jackson Time to call a halt as refs fail to implement penalty rules

The World Cup appears to have clean forgotten a law relating to the penalty goal, an oversight that keeps pushing Ireland deeper down the cul-de-sac of the quarter-final nobody wants.

Whatever the reason for their collective amnesia, referees have consistently failed to enforce the one-minute deadline for a shot at the posts.