By Ben Efe
World soccer governing body, FIFA, will meet Wednesday in Johannesburg, South Africa, to take a final decision on the need to employ an extra referee for matches following an ever increasing controversial and costly decisions made by referees.

The FIFA emergency executive committee meeting will examine the suitability of having extra officials to help the central referee make accurate decision in tight situations during the games. If agreed upon by members of the committee the proposal will be tabled at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich for a final decision in March.

FIFA has been under pressure to curb referees mistakes, which have often negated the FIFA fair-play policy as many teams have been robbed of victory. A case in point was the last World Cup qualifier between France and Ireland, where Thierry Henry deliberately handled the ball, that was flying wide and made a perfect cross for William Gallas to head home to cancel a goal that could have seen the Irish through to South Africa.

“There is a lack of discipline and respect in the game by the players because they are cheating,” FIFA president Joseph Sepp Blatter said in Johannesburg.

“This is human beings trying to get an advantage and this is not good and we have to fight against that.”

There is also a clamour for the introduction of video technology, but Blatter rejected the idea insisting that: “ We have to maintain the human face of football.

With technology, you have to stop a match. You have a look at cameras,” he said. “Now I think there should be some additional (assistants), if they can see or not see.