EDINBURGH, Scotland (Reuters) – Goal-line technology could be used in some matches in a competition and not others following a decision taken by the International Board, football’s law-making body, on Saturday.

A tweak clarifying the use of words in Law 11 on offside, detailing when an attacker is interfering with play or not, was adopted but a change to Law 8 regarding the re-start of a match for a dropped ball following a stoppage for injury was deferred for further study.

EDINBURGH, Scotland, March 2 (Reuters) – Goal-line technology could be used in some matches in a competition and not others following a decision taken by the International Board, soccer’s law-making body, on Saturday.

A tweak clarifying the use of words in Law 11 on offside, detailing when an attacker is interfering with play or not, was adopted but a change to Law 8 regarding the re-start of a match for a dropped ball following a stoppage for injury was deferred for further study.

EDINBURGH (Reuters) – Soccer has failed to respond to victims of racism on or off the pitch for far too long and needs to change its attitudes now, Jeffrey Webb, the chairman of FIFA’s new Anti-Racism and Discrimination Task Force said on Saturday.

Webb, the president of the CONCACAF confederation of countries in north and central Amercia and the Caribbean, has been appointed by FIFA president Sepp Blatter to review the way the sport handles racist incidents, which have dramatically increased in recent years.

EDINBURGH (Reuters) – Football has failed to respond to victims of racism on or off the pitch for far too long and needs to change its attitudes now, Jeffrey Webb, the chairman of FIFA’s new Anti-Racism and Discrimination Task Force said on Saturday.

Webb, the president of the CONCACAF confederation of countries in north and central Amercia and the Caribbean, has been appointed by FIFA president Sepp Blatter to review the way the sport handles racist incidents, which have dramatically increased in recent years.

EDINBURGH, March 2 (Reuters) – Soccer has failed to respond to victims of racism on or off the pitch for far too long and needs to change its attitudes now, Jeffrey Webb, the chairman of FIFA’s new Anti-Racism and Discrimination Task Force said on Saturday.

Webb, the president of the CONCACAF confederation of countries in north and central Amercia and the Caribbean, has been appointed by FIFA president Sepp Blatter to review the way the sport handles racist incidents, which have dramatically increased in recent years.

EDINBURGH (Reuters) – FIFA is establishing a task force to deal with racism in soccer, the president of the world governing body Sepp Blatter said on Friday.

Blatter, speaking to reporters in Edinburgh ahead of Saturday’s International Board meeting, said the task force would be headed by Jeffrey Webb, president of the CONCACAF confederation of north and central American and Caribbean countries

EDINBURGH, Scotland (Reuters) – Fans in stadiums and watching on TV should see all decisions based on goal-line technology, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said on Friday before this weekend’s meeting of soccer’s lawmaking body.

FIFA, which approved the use of technology to see if a ball has crossed the goal-line last year following a number of controversial incidents, said earlier that a fourth system has been granted a licence.

EDINBURGH, Scotland, March 1 (Reuters) – Fans in stadiums and watching on TV should see all decisions based on goal-line technology, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said on Friday before this weekend’s meeting of soccer’s lawmaking body.

FIFA, which approved the use of technology to see if a ball has crossed the goal-line last year following a number of controversial incidents, said earlier that a fourth system has been granted a licence.

EDINBURGH, March 1 (Reuters) – FIFA is establishing a task force to deal with racism in soccer, the president of the world governing body Sepp Blatter said on Friday.

Blatter, speaking to reporters in Edinburgh ahead of Saturday’s International Board meeting, said the task force would be headed by Jeffrey Webb, president of the CONCACAF confederation of north and central American and Caribbean countries

LONDON (Reuters) – Former Chelsea players showed little sympathy for interim boss Rafael Benitez who said on Wednesday he was leaving the club at the end of the season and criticised the club’s board and fans.

Instead, they rallied round their old club with former defender Jason Cundy saying Benitez had orchestrated his own downfall at Stamford Bridge by failing to adopt an attractive brand of football which would have won over the fans.