SEPP BLATTER's proposal to hold the World Cup every two years may not have been confined to the dustbin of history but is likely to remain on the shelf long enough to be- come an old maid. FIFA in the meantime is to press ahead with an experiment which many will consider more germane to the needs of the modern game.

Next season matches in a selected national league will be controlled by two referees.

This was one of the suggestions to emerge from last weekend's meeting of the International board, football's law-making body, in Cardiff and if the scheme is successful presumably it will be adopted worldwide.