But Hackett did confirm that a lot of work in the summer went into reviewing exactly what Fifa's new law directive on the subject was, and to fully explaining via a poster to each club changing room, the full range of offences.
The addition of five species to the red list - Temminck's stint, ruff, whimbrel, redwing and fieldfare - which are at the southern edge of their spread in the British Isles, could suggest a shift in range brought on by a changing climate.