There is no other country in the world that understands more about the heartache from loosing in a penalty shootout than England. Since the 1990 world cup in Italy there have been eight major international tournaments England have been involved in, they have been knocked out five times by penalty shootouts in those tournaments. It has been a long unanswered question by many, is there no other way to finish a game?. FIFA brought in the golden goal in Euro 96 then the silver goal in Euro 2000 also to try and reduce the amount of Penalty shootouts in major tournaments, both of those ideas have been scrapped since. But another idea has been formulated and a FIFA meeting this week will decide if it is viable to introduce into major tournaments. This idea was created by a man called Henry Bertles, the idea devised is still related to penalties but is to a format that encourages attacking football during extra-time. The system that Mr Bertles has put forward consists of 3 penalties per team that is to be taken after 90 minutes if the match is drawn in the knockout stages. Then after the winners of penalties has been decided, the normal format of extra-time is to be played, the difference is the winner of the penalties has the advantage, so the team that lost the shoot out knows that they must score to stay in the competition. This does encourage attacking play by at least one team if not both, when you compare this format to the current one it does theoretically work. The 2006 World Cup that was deemed to be one of the most drab that was won by a defensive orientated Italian team, the tournament did have penalties and teams including Italy, England and Portugal were involved in, during the extra time that these teams were involved in was particularly boring with neither team wanting to go forward because of the fear from loosing a goal. They played for penalties which neutralised the extra time, this does spin the idea around. It has a firm backer with Sepp Blatter putting his political weight behind the idea, if this is passed then it could be introduced in the confederations cup in 2009 with the idea of plying it in South Africa 2010. This could be the answer to English fans dreams with this introduction but is this the answer to the long asked question. That will be answered if FIFA pass the vote.