2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers and International Friendlies ** Spoilers ** [22nd - 28th March 2017]

I don't think anyone would be arguing about a few extra seconds to get correct decisions. The problem lies in the flow of the game, for example, Team A score a great counter attacking goal, the ball is whipped into the far post for a winger to tap in, the winger is offside, the linesman doesn't spot it, goals stands for 2 mins for it to be ruled out. That's one example, i'm sure people will able to think up others. It's all about the flow.

They need some sort of device similar to goal line technology, offsides should be triggered automatically by the camera, with video ref's just confirming the offside, the ref will then receive a buzz if it's offside.
 
The argument against the flow of the game has always been that it would cause longer delays in restarting play, never once have I seen anyone else at all claim that 2 minutes later in a game a decision might be changed, honestly, where did you even pluck that from? If you think there is an offside either maybe the team that conceded challenges the decision or the ref does and they'd do it instantly, under what circumstances would they choose to challenge it 2 minutes later?
 
Why are you dealing with such absolutes? the time is irrelevant, 2 mins, 30 seconds, whatever. surely you can see the point i'm making about the flow of the game and the crowd, the PL needs to make sure we don't see goals being celebrated all the time for it to be disallowed, i think it'll take something away from the atmosphere if it's not a pretty instant decision.. That's why i started talking about a device which give's the ref instant decisions, something like goal line technology.
 
It'll work both ways though. Goals that are disallowed and aren't celebrated will result in a celebration when it's overturned.

I don't think the use of technology in the game last night could've been any more positive, it proved its worth twice.
 
If there is a natural stop in play I don't have a problem with it. With goals, offsides, penalties etc there's plenty of time wasted celebrating and arguing anyway. It's just how long it takes them to come to a decision and who makes it, penalties will be especially tough as you regularly get lots of opposite opinions even between refs.
 
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