At long last - video technology

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

I see games lasting 100 plus min the pubs will love it more drinking time. Today made the 17.27 from Picc and will be home for 22.15 can see me missing the last 15 min of games in the future if football goes the way of the egg chasers

I hope it doesn't come to that.That is some round trip for you!

 

[manimanc]

Need another long in title

I did think that but my video was shit and always jumped at the second long. .

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

Not before time,with the stakes in football being so high it's not right to have to rely on the officials to have a good day

Who do you think will be reviewing video evidence ? ;-)

 

[TFC]

Video killed the referee star.

Perfectly summed up.

 

[Mancity1980]

Bearing in mind Liverpool's penalty today I hope this technology will be use to judge a. was there contact? and b. was the contact sufficient?

If it is just used for a. then it will be a joke.

 

[BlueAnorak]

You do understand that they are only going to downgrade goals allowed and not upgrade stuff that was never given in the first place. As such we'll be worse off after it is introduced if what I'm reading is correct.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I'm inimical to any technology which interrupts the flow of the game, which is what makes football such a beautiful spectacle.

 

[Deleted member 58678]

I'm inimical to any technology which interrupts the flow of the game, which is what makes football such a beautiful spectacle.

The game is interrupted when physios come on when players pretend to be injured when they aren't, 'keepers like Tim Howard and Begovic can take anywhere between 40-70 seconds to take a goal kick, when players surround ref when they disagree with a decision it can take the ref a good 30seconds to get hold of the game again after sorting all that out, Champions League football (and other European leagues) is littered with stop-start-stop-start-stop games because of the amount of diving and refs blowing up for free kicks.

Football isn't this free flowing sport people make it out to be.

This is 20 odd years late coming into football. Super League (rugby league) has had the video ref since 1996. It is all about trying to get as many correct big decisions, when the ref isn't sure, as possible and that's more important than making sure play is going on for me.

 

[MP71]

Video killed the referee star.

Brilliant, because it's so true

 

[moon]

Wonder how long they have to decide ?

Aguero at Leicester for example needed a few views to be certain it was a pen