The knockout stages for the 2022 World Cup get underway on Saturday with a number of nations aiming to extend their respective stays in Qatar.
With the group stages now concluded, that will no doubt usher in a period of extra-time and penalty shootout dramatics. It hasn’t always been that way though with matches at the World Cup having previously been decided due to the golden goal rule.
The ruling was used at the 1998 and 2002 tournaments in both France and Japan & South Korea before eventually being abolished. What was the golden goal rule though? And why did FIFA make the eventual decision to remove it?
