UEFA's head of refereeing said the sport's rules-making body should include the controversial offside interpretation that allowed the Netherlands to score its first goal in the team's 3-0 victory over Italy this week at the European Championship. Ruud van Nistelrooy appeared to be offside when he scored Monday. But Swedish referee Peter Frojdfeldt allowed the goal to count because Italian defender Christian Panucci was lying injured off the field of play. “In the Laws of the Game, we have the situation where a defender deliberately goes out of the field of play. But in the one the other day, he was out by the momentum of the situation,” Yvan Cornu, UEFA's head of refereeing, said Thursday. Cornu said that UEFA cannot propose the change directly, but a proposal must be made by a national association to the International Football Association Board, which meets annually to discuss and vote on rules changes. The IFAB has eight members – four from FIFA and one each from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. “It has to be clarified,” Cornu said. “For us, for the referees, it has always been clear. But now, because the case happened, and it's a very special one, now the public is aware of it.”
