Amid outrage on social media about the lack of action taken when Ferjani Sassi and Yassine Meriah bundled Kane to the floor during the match in Volgograd, the game’s governing body confirmed it would examine whether Video Assistant Referee Sandro Ricci had blundered by not advising Wilmar Roldan to penalise them.

Just a day earlier, Fifa had publicly backed all VAR interventions in the opening 11 games of the World Cup, amid another controversial call during Brazil’s 1-1 draw against Switzerland.

It is understood its referees’ chiefs will stage a press conference at some point during Russia 2018 to run through some of the disputed decisions on key incidents in matches, potentially once the group stage is complete.

A similar briefing was held on the eve of the World Cup in which video clips were played that had been shown to each team before the tournament of incidents for which there would be zero tolerance.

They included grappling in the box, with Fifa’s refereeing director, Massimo Busacca, revealing players had been warned there would be nowhere to hide in Russia.

One possible reason for Kane not being awarded a penalty for the first incident could be that John Stones appeared to simultaneously push Tunisia’s Ellyes Skhiri.

For the second, images seem to show Kane had hold of Meriah’s arm as the pair tangled.

But three former Fifa referees, Keith Hackett, Graham Poll and Mark Clattenburg, all agreed Kane should have been given two spot-kicks.

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There was also criticism on social media over a lack of review after Ashley Young appeared to catch Tunisia captain Wahbi Khazri in the face with an elbow. Roldan decided the matter warranted only a lecture.

The World Cup has been dogged by VAR controversy and former Premier League referee Mark Halsey said on Tuesday it was not ready to be used at such a high-profile event.

He told BBC Radio 5 Live: “I think there’s a lot more training and education to be done because it should not be in this tournament.

“They should be looking at it to bring it in for the 2022 qualifying stages and then into the tournament.”

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