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#ifab

If approved the trial will begin when the 2026 season of the Canadian Premier League kicks off in April. Wenger, who has been Fifa's head of global football development since 2019, proposes that there should be a complete gap between the attacker and the second-to-last opposition player - effectively the last defender, given the goalkeeper's usual positioning. Critics have suggested that daylight offside will give too much advantage to the attacking team.

Leeds United manager Daniel Farke accused Manchester City's Gianluigi Donnarumma of feigning injury to "bend the rules" on Saturday so coach Pep Guardiola could get new instructions to his side. City, who won the match 3-2, were leading 2-1 at the time but Leeds were in the ascendancy. Leeds believe City were the latest to use an increasingly common tactic to get messages on to the pitch when under pressure.

The International Football Association Board (Ifab) has discussed the possibility of limiting how long a player can spend on a throw-in, in a bid to increase the amount of time the ball is in play during a match. Goalkeepers are limited in the amount of time they can hold on to the ball after new measures were introduced this season. A corner is now awarded if a keeper fails to release the ball within eight seconds.

With winter approaching, it's time for footballers (and journalists) to start bringing out the extra layers. A certain amount of wrapping up is permitted for footballers, such as wearing long-sleeved undershirts...as long as they match the main colour of the kit that's worn on top, of course. But snoods are not an option: have been outlawed by the football authorities for quite some time, despite briefly looking like becoming a popular optional part of the winter football kit.