Well done Ian Holloway - About time some one had a real rant about it....

If this is his post-game interview, I'm not 100% convinced, you get the rub of the green sometimes, as an Arsenal fan in 07/08 and 08/09 I can tell you that there were a ridiculous amount of penalties/offsides that were highly contentious and went against Arsenal. It happens to everybody.

That said, the Tevez offside was scandalous, it was blatently, blatently offside and I fear for the linesman if he didn't see that
 
jakeke said:
If this is his post-game interview, I'm not 100% convinced, you get the rub of the green sometimes, as an Arsenal fan in 07/08 and 08/09 I can tell you that there were a ridiculous amount of penalties/offsides that were highly contentious and went against Arsenal. It happens to everybody.

That said, the Tevez offside was scandalous, it was blatently, blatently offside and I fear for the linesman if he didn't see that
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Yeah its the post match interview,

I just wish more & more managers would stand up to the system & air there views, what is the FA going to do then fine them all & give touch line bans?

Is the off side that bad, iv not got around to watching it yet only read the reports
 
Whilst I support managers speaking out, I completely disagree with using video replays.

Money should be spent on maintaining a higher standard of refereeing at all levels (Or at least from the Premiership to League 2) of the game instead.
 
The FA are utterly useless in so many areas, you're right, people need to speak out. Some of their decisions are cretinous and you'd expect more logic from a bunch of schoolkids
 
KidCanary said:
Whilst I support managers speaking out, I completely disagree with using video replays.

Money should be spent on maintaining a higher standard of refereeing at all levels (Or at least from the Premiership to League 2) of the game instead.
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No amount of money can make referees 100% reliable even the best will make game changing mistakes. Nearly every other sport has evolved to employ technology for the better, why is football so afraid of the change when nearly every single game is marred by bad decisions?
 
Remember when Wigan had their first season in prem and Jewell use to rant at the decisions going against you, face it, City are the new boys and the EPL will want them to win the league.
 
KidCanary said:
Whilst I support managers speaking out, I completely disagree with using video replays.

Money should be spent on maintaining a higher standard of refereeing at all levels (Or at least from the Premiership to League 2) of the game instead.
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Agree, I'd rather see the F.A. spend more money on training ref's to a better standard and putting money back in to youth football. (see the amount of coaches we have V the rest of Europe)

jakeke said:
The FA are utterly useless in every area
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;) Fixed.
 
mmj_uk said:
No amount of money can make referees 100% reliable even the best will make game changing mistakes. Nearly every other sport has evolved to employ technology for the better, why is football so afraid of the change when nearly every single game is marred by bad decisions?
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No other sports are really played with the same flow as football is, which is why they were able to implement it.

If you have referees checking replays then it's just going to ruin the entire flow of the game. Players already hold it up when they're disputing a decision, and that's only going to get worse if the referee has to wait for and watch a replay as well - And in some cases even with replays it's not always easy to make a decision.

At what point do you restrict the replays? Every decision, from a free kick to a throw in can potentially make a huge impact on the game. If every decision requires a replay (and sooner or later managers would be calling for that) it would slow the game down to a crawl.
 
KidCanary said:
No other sports are really played with the same flow as football is, which is why they were able to implement it.

If you have referees checking replays then it's just going to ruin the entire flow of the game. Players already hold it up when they're disputing a decision, and that's only going to get worse if the referee has to wait for and watch a replay as well - And in some cases even with replays it's not always easy to make a decision.

At what point do you restrict the replays? Every decision, from a free kick to a throw in can potentially make a huge impact on the game. If every decision requires a replay (and sooner or later managers would be calling for that) it would slow the game down to a crawl.
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Goal line and offsides are the ones that directly impact goals and would be easy to implement without any real disruption. Or goal line and scrap the off side rule. :D
 
KidCanary said:
If you have referees checking replays then it's just going to ruin the entire flow of the game. Players already hold it up when they're disputing a decision, and that's only going to get worse if the referee has to wait for and watch a replay as well - And in some cases even with replays it's not always easy to make a decision.
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It was suggested that the fourth official (what does he do anyway?) have a TV so he can assist the referee by microphone if needed, it wouldn't be too dissimilar to how they consult linesmen today when they need help.

KidCanary said:
At what point do you restrict the replays? Every decision, from a free kick to a throw in can potentially make a huge impact on the game. If every decision requires a replay (and sooner or later managers would be calling for that) it would slow the game down to a crawl.
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That's part of the challenge to find the right balance between the referee and technology, but usually when a referee gets a key decision wrong the players will crowd him arguing for up to a minute anyway, so would it really hurt for him to wait 5-10secs and get a key decision right rather than guess because he wasn't sure?
 
One thing they could implement as a starting point is only introduce a review system for goals scored, though you'd have to be careful about the scope as if you cracked down on little niggling fouls like shirt-tugging, climbing etc you'd probably end up with 0-0 draws every week where all the goals are disallowed :p

It obviously wouldn't completely eliminate unfair play or poor refereeing decisions and would be biased towards disallowing goals rather than allowing legitimate goals, but with the latter there is far more guesswork involved (would he, wouldn't he have scored) when with the former you at least have a natural break in play, an opportunity to review footage and to bring back play to the right place.

However equally for it to work there would have to be far more leniency by the refs and linesman regarding offside, i.e. only making a call when it is glaringly obvious the player is offside or even making it so the offside rule is something which is only considered in breaks of play and becomes the domain of technology.

Couple that with goal-line opportunity and perhaps as in American Football the opportunity for managers to 'flag' one or two reviews in a match, for example penalty calls or if a player feels they were fouled and it is 'worth' contesting then you'd probably have a decent shout at removing most of the heavily-contested on-field calls.
 
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