Referee's assistants could be concentrating on penalty areas

Reuters news agency reports that the FAW wants to change the laws so that a player can only be offside if they are in the opponent's penalty area.

The proposal will be put before the eight-seat International Board, which meets in Cardiff on 26 February.

Any proposal needs at least six votes to become law, with Fifa holding four seats and the Home Nations the others.

The offside law has been tinkered with throughout its history.

The latest change introduced the confusing and controversial category of "active" and "passive" players in positions on the pitch that would formerly all be penalised as offside.

End this offside confusion

But the last major alteration to the offside law was in 1925, which reduced from three to two the number of players from the defending team needed to be between the attacker with the ball and the goalline in the opponent's half.

It had a huge impact, with far more goals being scored before teams adapted their tactics to deal with it.

The Welsh will also propose that players be booked rather than automatically sent off for denying an opponent an obvious scoring opportunity - but that the attacking team be awarded a penalty.

After this week's furore when Tottenham were denied a winning goal against Manchester United because the match officials did not see the ball cross the goalline, there is another important proposal.

Linesman defends disallowed goal

The Board is expected to look at technological equipment designed to rule whether the ball has crossed the line for a goal.

The equipment will be demonstrated to members at the Millennium Stadium.

Any decisions taken by the Board become law the following July, but major changes are usually tested in junior and youth level matches for two or three seasons before being adopted at senior level.