The World Cup of Calvinball: Fifa’s hasty changes turn refereeing into a free-for-all | Beau Dure

Match officials are enforcing tweaks to the laws of the game that have hardly been tested. The results? Drama, ‘mistaken identities’ and lots of confusion In the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, the titular characters occasionally played a game known as Calvinball. The rules were amorphous. At any moment, something like