FIFA are to examine Martin Taylor's infamous foul on Eduardo to see whether the Birmingham City defender's three-match ban should extended, it can be revealed.
The world governing body are to call for the Football Association to send them the disciplinary file on the incident involving Taylor, which left the Arsenal striker with a badly-broken leg.
Taylor has insisted the tackle was clumsy rather than malicious, and that has been accepted by Arsenal.
But FIFA president Sepp Blatter said his organisation have the right to ask for such files to ensure that appropriate sanctions have been issued. Blatter, speaking in Gleneagles following a meeting of the International FA Board, said: "We will ask for the file.
"We have now the right to ask national associations to give us the file - and if we, the authorities, feel it [the suspension] is not enough then we will come back on that."
Blatter said the issue of "violent attacks" needs to be looked at, adding it has even been suggested that offenders should be suspended for the same length of time as their victims are out injured.
Blatter added: "I told the International Board that a player who is deliberately attacking another player and tries to demolish a player should be banned, and not only for three matches but temporarily banned or a life ban depending on the severity of the attack.
"Why the hell should footballers demolish each other?"
