The head of FIFA’s refereeing committee, Pierluigi Collina, has proposed cancelling the possibility of following up on a shot if the goalkeeper manages to save the kick during a penalty.
Pierluigi Collina— I believe that the best solution would be one shot. It’s like a penalty after extra time: either you score a goal, or the game is resumed with a goal kick, and that’s it. This way, we can avoid the unnecessary fuss that usually occurs before a penalty, when all players gather around the penalty area, — said Collina in an interview with La Repubblica.
However, Collina seems to have forgotten that a penalty in the game is a penalty kick, after which the game continues. This is according to the rules. But the Italian has repeatedly substituted the rules of the game with his instructions to referees. Will it be the same this time?
