The ruling body has a major hand in tinkering with the rules every season but the results are often to the detriment of the spectacle and sometimes the safety of its match officials
At the end of a cavernous room sits an enormous armchair. Beyond it hundreds of giant screens – each of them rolling footage back and forth in super slo-mo of professional footballers’ arms. Arms everywhere, all in dangerous proximity to the ball.
At regular intervals a stern, clipped Home Counties voice can be heard uttering the same two words over and over again. “Unnaturally bigger, unnaturally bigger, unnaturally bigger.”
Written by Max Rushden
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