Recent February 28, 2009 IFAB Rules Meeting Articles
Penalty Box, A Fourth Sub And Longer Halftimes?
by Mike Woitalla (Article | Soccer America - February 11)
When soccer's rule-making body meets later this month, it will consider penalty-box time for yellow-card offenses, a fourth sub during overtime, and extended halftimes (because it can take so long to walk to the locker room!). more details | go to article

Platini Says Forget Video, Add Refs Instead
by Jack Bell (Analysis | New York Times - February 19)
The two most influential soccer institutions — FIFA and UEFA – have no official presence on Facebook and just try to “follow” the FIFA president Joseph S. Blatter or the leader of UEFA Michel Platini on Twitter. more details | go to article

FIFA's International Football Association Board
by Reuters (Article | Yahoo - February 27)
FIFA’s International Football Association Board (IFAB) will discuss on Saturday changes to soccer’s rulebook including extra referees, sin-bins for yellow card offences and increasing the number of substitutions. more details | go to article

FIFA Rule Makers To Mull Extra Refs, Sin-Bins
by Darren Ennis (Article | Yahoo - February 27)
FIFA’s lawmakers meet on Saturday to discuss changes to soccer’s rulebook including extra referees, sin-bins for yellow card offences and increasing the number of substitutions during a match. more details | go to article

Managers Unite In Opposition To 'Sin Bin' Proposal
by Alan Dawson (Article | Goal.com - February 27)
Tony Mowbray and Steve Bruce both take a conservative stance toward suggestions of 20 minute half-times and sin-binning. more details | go to article

International Board Likely To Promote Extra Assistant Referee Idea
by Martyn Ziegler (Article | Scotsman.com - February 28)
Football's rulemakers are expected to today reject a proposal for sin-bins for yellow card offenders but give the green light for fresh trials for an extra assistant referee behind each goal. more details | go to article

Premier League Fury As UEFA President Michel Platini Decides Against Goal-Line Technology
by Andrew Warshaw (Article | Telegraph - February 28)
Uefa president Michel Platini's controversial plan to use two extra assistants instead of goal-line technology could be in place by the 2012 European Championships after football's lawmakers agreed on Saturday to take the much-criticised experiment into the professional game. more details | go to article

FIFA Drops Plan For 20-Minute Half-Time
by Agence France Presse (Article | Yahoo - February 28)
FIFA on Saturday withdrew a proposal to extend half-time breaks from 15 to 20 minutes after it became clear that it would not be adopted by world football's rules-making body, the International Football Association Board (IFAB). more details | go to article

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