The real title for this post was going to be FIFA Decide to Remain Undecided on all Matters Except the One That Matters Most but that seemed a bit long but it more accurately reflects what appears to be happening at the Zurich FIFA Headquarters as IFAB convened to discuss various issues over the last few days.

If I remember correctly, there were around eight or ten items on the agenda which included things that every football fan has sleepless nights about such as whether players should be allowed to stop and start their run when taking a penalty kick!

The other thing was the red card/professional foul/penalty thing (a great example of how this law can be misinterpreted came in our Cup Final against Villa last weekend). I must admit, this probably does need a bit of clearing up.

The other thing was something to do with the fourth official and seemed to be along the lines of – “The Fourth Official – What does he do?”

IFAB couldn’t really decide what the best thing is to do with any of these things so they will be discussed again when the board meets again on 17th-18th May.

I don’t know where to begin. Here we have some very highly paid individuals who must surely be at the head of some of the greatest think-tanks in football who are there to make the decisions necessary to take the game forward and they can’t do it.

“We’ll have a think about that one”, appears to be the answer.

However, the one thing that is MAJOR and overshadows every single one of the other things combined is the use of video technology and FIFA have NO problem making a decision on this subject. They have dismissed it (again) and it will not even be discussed.

As an aside, I am going to continue to campaign for the use of video technology although the term seems to have been changed to “goal line technology” – I do not want just goal-line technology although that would be a start, I want full-blown video technology to be used to enable the officials to get it right 99.9% of the time.

As always seems to be the case (it is not coincidence, it is just that this kind of thing happens far more often than FIFA would like to admit) there was yet another incident over the weekend where Birmingham scored a goal but it was deemed not to have crossed the line (video technology showed quite clearly that it had).

Now, this example won’t get quite the headlines that others will get purely because it happened between Portsmouth and Birmingham (and not, for example Manchester United and Chelsea). The “goal” probably would not have been decisive in the outcome of the match either as it came in the 81st Minute with Portsmouth already 2-0 up. Of course, we’ll never know now…

I have mixed feelings about what I am about to say because on the one hand I know that I am bang out of order but on the other hand it might be necessary to get the issue through the thick skulls that sit around the FIFA table but I hope that this summers World Cup Final is decided by some really dodgy incident that is immediately picked up on TV but missed by the officials.

Something like Thierry Henry’s handball against Ireland would be great. It would make a farce of the competition and it would ruin the Final.

I would love to see Blatter and his cronies squirm out of that one.

(P.S. My love of the game outweighs my dislike for the people in charge to the extent that I don’t REALLY want to see the above happen but I can say with 99% certainty that there will be some incident at some point in the tournament that will cost at least one team their place. It will give me no satisfaction when it occurs.)