Referees

[samharris]

Agree 100%. Other sports do it so why can't football.

The question you need to ask is how do we do it in football??
Football is not like cricket, tennis, rugby etc where there are natural breaks in play. What would the procedure be for using video technology in football??

Football is no different to rugby league. The only breaks in play you get is scrummaging and penalty/conversion kicks - the time it takes to set up and perform a scrum in RL takes no more time than setting up a wall in footy; the time it takes to kick the ball over the sticks in DL takes no more time than a goalkeeper taking a goal kick or a penalty being taken from the 12yd spot in footy. Both games are fast flowing games. Yet RL pioneered video refereeing and football is officiated like it was in the 1930's. Also in RL players are treated on the pitch as okay goes on, sometimes they play on injured so they don't hinder their teams play; in footy players roll around on the floor like 50000 volts are being electricuted into them and they'll stay down to stop play when there's absolutely nowt up with them.

When a ref makes a decision in footy, sometimes it will take two minutes from when the decision is made, then all the players will charge around him and push and above each other and the ref will book two or three or have a word, before play resumes. In that time the ref can blow his whistle and say "video ref, have a look at that for me" and the video ref can take twenty second to look at something and play can continue - and you get the added plus of the right decision having been made.

Give that man a cigar...

 

[pauldominic]

The question you need to ask is how do we do it in football??
Football is not like cricket, tennis, rugby etc where there are natural breaks in play. What would the procedure be for using video technology in football??

Football is no different to rugby league. The only breaks in play you get is scrummaging and penalty/conversion kicks - the time it takes to set up and perform a scrum in RL takes no more time than setting up a wall in footy; the time it takes to kick the ball over the sticks in DL takes no more time than a goalkeeper taking a goal kick or a penalty being taken from the 12yd spot in footy. Both games are fast flowing games. Yet RL pioneered video refereeing and football is officiated like it was in the 1930's. Also in RL players are treated on the pitch as okay goes on, sometimes they play on injured so they don't hinder their teams play; in footy players roll around on the floor like 50000 volts are being electricuted into them and they'll stay down to stop play when there's absolutely nowt up with them.

When a ref makes a decision in footy, sometimes it will take two minutes from when the decision is made, then all the players will charge around him and push and above each other and the ref will book two or three or have a word, before play resumes. In that time the ref can blow his whistle and say "video ref, have a look at that for me" and the video ref can take twenty second to look at something and play can continue - and you get the added plus of the right decision having been made.

Give that man a cigar...

Agreed how about a havana?