So when is football going to join the 20th century? (Flether's red card)

[PikeyPriest]

Just plain and simply don't agree with using Video's in the game.

It's what makes football so great, bad decisions, good decisions.

Also don't see how you'd sort it out so that every proffessional club would be able to use Video's in the games.

I agree. There question is when does it end? There are soo many `minor` fouls that happen every game, when does a foul like this become significant? For example, Torres pushes a CB out the way, the ball gets passed around and Gerrard scores 30 seconds later. Can the team appeal and get the goal cancelled? And going in the other direction CB's technically foul strikers nearly all the time when long-balls come out. If too many decisions can get reviewed the game would suffer IMO.

I think goal line camera's/technology to review whether a goal should be given are a good idea, but this is probably the least disruptive to the game. If anything I think video replays should be used to punish diving (and faking head injury- ie Drogba yesterday when it hit him in the shoulder). After the match a think a yellow for a dive is fair (ie NO contact is made, not that it was minimal - only fair way really) and faking head injury should have an automatic 1 game ban (ie again video shows there was no contact with the head)

Edit - Probably would be league game only then as FA clubs might not have access and it would make it unfair to have different rules for different stages

 

[nst68]

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Also don't see how you'd sort it out so that every proffessional club would be able to use Video's in the games.

I presume that they'd use the TV (i.e. Sky) companies feeds to get the video.
The big games would be ok, but then I'm not sure how many cameras are needed to supply enough views, and if Sky or BBC take enough to say a Fulham v Blackburn game.

Ok the technology would only initially be installed for some competitions, but then is Hawkeye only used for some tennis tournaments, and the more it's used (and hopefully works) the more it will encourage it's adoption by others.

 

[Tummy]

I presume that they'd use the TV (i.e. Sky) companies feeds to get the video.
The big games would be ok, but then I'm not sure how many cameras are needed to supply enough views, and if Sky or BBC take enough to say a Fulham v Blackburn game.

Ok the technology would only initially be installed for some competitions, but then is Hawkeye only used for some tennis tournaments, and the more it's used (and hopefully works) the more it will encourage it's adoption by others.

If you're going to use Video's in football, every proffessional club should be able to use them. You can't have one rule for one, and one for the others.

You'd need camera's at every level of football, From the Prem to League 2.

Sky / BBC / ect might be able to get a deal with Fifa / the FA to do this, but I think it can't just be used in one country. You'd need it at all levels across all leagues world wide. imo.

If they're used, I agree, they might cause more damage then good, if there is a foul like pointed out, teams can argue that the ref missed that, and then it would create more trouble.

Just use better refs, or train them better, get them to work in teams.

 

[Tombstone]

Just plain and simply don't agree with using Video's in the game.

It's what makes football so great, bad decisions, good decisions.

Also don't see how you'd sort it out so that every proffessional club would be able to use Video's in the games.

Well thats fair enough, but if bad decisions are a part of what makes football so great, and nobody is going to bother to do anything to try and solve the bad decisions, then everybody should just accept the bad decisions and shut up whining about them when a decision goes against them. (players and fans alike)

 

[nst68]

If you're going to use Video's in football, every proffessional club should be able to use them. You can't have one rule for one, and one for the others.

You'd need camera's at every level of football, From the Prem to League 2.

Sky / BBC / ect might be able to get a deal with Fifa / the FA to do this, but I think it can't just be used in one country. You'd need it at all levels across all leagues world wide. imo.

If they're used, I agree, they might cause more damage then good, if there is a foul like pointed out, teams can argue that the ref missed that, and then it would create more trouble.

Just use better refs, or train them better, get them to work in teams.

I can't see why you can't just have them in the Premiership, like I said previously Hawkeye is only used in some tennis tournaments.
It's not a case of one rule for one and one for another, they're both still using the same rules but one set have a "helping" hand to apply them.

I don't think you could have the reviews for all fouls, they would be there just for certain situations i.e. penalty decisions.
This would mean that if the ref suspected there was hint of a penalty he'd have to blow and then get it reviewed.
This is a similar situation to rugby where the review is only used in a try or no try decision.
Other decisions like a forward pass or obstruction which might lead to the try are still handled by the ref.

I'm not saying that introducing it in football will be a perfect solution, and all it might do is move the arguments and complaints to the decisions not covered by the replays.

If replays aren't used then fans need to realise that people make mistakes, over the course of a season their players will make move mistakes (i.e. miss a shot they should have scored) than they'll get bad calls from the ref.
You'd still get the bad calls that could effect cup finals etc, but with and without technology both have they downsides.

 

[nst68]

Well thats fair enough, but if bad decisions are a part of what makes football so great, and nobody is going to bother to do anything to try and solve the bad decisions, then everybody should just accept the bad decisions and shut up whining about them when a decision goes against them. (players and fans alike)

Definitely agree.

How many times have you heard a manager say (when his team should have have a penalty against them) "well, that makes up for the penalty we should have got last week", but then the next time they're not awarded a penalty they scream how unfair it was.

Can't have it both ways.