FIFA has revealed that their new disciplinary regulations to enforce immediate suspensions for red carded players will also prevent referees changing their minds after viewing controversial incidents on video.
The ruling applies with immediate effect. The new regulations follow a decision by FIFA's executive committee last week, when the world governing body announced that any player who is sent off will have to serve an immediate one-match ban with no right of appeal. It had been understood that decisions could still be changed if referees believed they had made an error but that has now been ruled out in all circumstances, except in the case of mistaken identity.
Meanwhile, it was also revealed today that FIFA is to try out positioning a referee's assistant behind the goal line in certain matches next year.
Filed by James Boylan.
