CHENNAI: Former Indian PC expert Rupinder Pal Singh said the other day that hockey will lose its charm if the drag-flick rule while taking penalty-corners is modified. However, Elisabeth Fuerst, the Asian Hockey Federation event and sports director, made it clear on Sunday that nothing on those lines will happen anytime soon.
"The proposed new penalty corner rule will not be implemented anytime soon," Fuerst said. She added that it will undergo several phases of trial before being implemented. "It's a very early-stage trial. It's not a rule that will be implemented in the next couple of weeks or months. If it turns out to be successful in its early stages, there will be more phases of trial before it ever gets implemented," the AHF official said.
