Video Refs coming for next season!
Discussion
For game changing decisions 
http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35736241
Grey area but I'm broadly in favour if they do it right, ie quick decisions unlike rugby where it can take an age.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35736241
Grey area but I'm broadly in favour if they do it right, ie quick decisions unlike rugby where it can take an age.
I'm one of the minority that think wrong decisions are part of what makes the game great. I don't want football to be fair. I want to be furious that a decision went against us, and delirious when we get away with murder. I want to feel passion. When football becomes fair, and you always get what you deserve, and the decisions are always right, I won't bother with it any more.
I used to love the fury a wrong goal line decision generated. The debate, the "what could have been". We've lost that now. When Germany caned us 4-1 in the WC, we were able to blame the Lampard disallowed goal. Had the technology been in place, they still would have f
king thrashed us, because they were good and we were st, but we'de have nothing to blame.
They are slowly but surely fking up the game I love. Leave it alone.
If you want "fair", fk off and play chess, you s.
I used to love the fury a wrong goal line decision generated. The debate, the "what could have been". We've lost that now. When Germany caned us 4-1 in the WC, we were able to blame the Lampard disallowed goal. Had the technology been in place, they still would have f
king thrashed us, because they were good and we were st, but we'de have nothing to blame. They are slowly but surely f
king up the game I love. Leave it alone. If you want "fair", f
k off and play chess, you s. hornetrider said:
For game changing decisions
http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35736241
Grey area but I'm broadly in favour if they do it right, ie quick decisions unlike rugby where it can take an age.
Trials already took place in the Netherlands this season. With two extra official (video-)refs placed in a seperate control room-like container, equiped with multiple screens and access to all camera views and angles available. Their in direct contact with the ref via regular headsets which the referees normally also uses to comunicate with the linesmen. It works well, the only question is wenn the extra eyes are used, and under what circumstances.http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35736241
Grey area but I'm broadly in favour if they do it right, ie quick decisions unlike rugby where it can take an age.
It's just plain ridiculous that it hasn't been implemented years ago wenn in financially far less able sports like field hockey and rugby it has been business as usual for years. All thanks to the corrupt dinosaures in place at FIFA/UEFA.
Edited by DeltonaS on Saturday 5th March 21:15
DeltonaS said:
It's just plain ridiculous that it hasn't been implemented years ago wenn in financially far less able sports like field hockey and rugby it has been business as usual for years. All thanks to the corrupt dinosaures in place at FIFA/UEFA.
Maybe they, like me, just think it's a crasp idea.TwigtheWonderkid said:
DeltonaS said:
It's just plain ridiculous that it hasn't been implemented years ago wenn in financially far less able sports like field hockey and rugby it has been business as usual for years. All thanks to the corrupt dinosaures in place at FIFA/UEFA.
Maybe they, like me, just think it's a crasp idea.
DeltonaS said:
That's part of; "the only question is wenn the extra eyes are used, and under what circumstances."
Yeah, joking aside...The rugby video ref calls the on-pitch ref's attention to fouls and stuff he thinks the ref has missed all the time. Hopefully the football equivalent could be used to point out the flailing (deliberate) elbows, play-acting and diving that utter f
knuggets such as Costa perpetrate on a daily basis. I for one would happily see the mystical "flow of the game" held up for a few seconds if it meant seeing wkers like him squeezed out of the gameWithout Costa's nonsense, you'd have no one to hate. Players like him won't exist. I like having cheats in the game, people I can loathe (unless they play for my team). I don't want blandness, I want hatred and love, fury and delight, crushing disappointment and overwhelming joy.
You are throwing the baby out with the bathwater. You think you hate Costa, but the truth is you love to hate Costa.
You are throwing the baby out with the bathwater. You think you hate Costa, but the truth is you love to hate Costa.
They will have to be very careful how this is used so it doesn't become 'Rugby' which is played by a bunch of thugs and watched by a bunch of 'oh so nice people' who like to agree about everything & how much more dignified rugby is than football. Yes, I would like to see some of the ' conning' of refs taken from the game when someone tries to get another sent off by pretending to be floored from a 'head but' that never happens and then covers the face with hands. Rugby is sterile to the point of being boring especially now they stop for what appears to to be ages, losing all the built up momentum of atmosphere with nothing to debate and stir emotions- hope this doesn't happen to football because banter will become a thing of the past and we'll all be agreeable boring farts like rugby supporters when everything is 'Correct' !
Nik da Greek said:
You make a good point, to be fair. However, as a Leeds Untied supporter, I'm at the point where I hate pretty much everything about football already so I reckon I's be OK 
If they'd had had video cameras in the 70s, that great Leeds team wouldn't have existed. The biggest bunch of cheats football has ever seen. A whole team of Diego Costas. Your average prison team was more honest.London424 said:
Can't come soon enough.
The quicker that st as seen in the Liverpool game is stamped out the better.
Carragher & Henry thought it was a penalty too. The quicker that s
t as seen in the Liverpool game is stamped out the better. So that's just the three then .
Technology has been fantastic for cricket, cannot see why it cannot be for football too.
TwigtheWonderkid said:
If they'd had had video cameras in the 70s, that great Leeds team wouldn't have existed. The biggest bunch of cheats football has ever seen. A whole team of Diego Costas. Your average prison team was more honest.
Don't think anyone would have been left on the pitch in 1970 cup final, we gave as good as we got but it is remembered and talked about for ever for good or bad which is what video's will end if it's taken too far. They were called characters back then, which was accepted, would be called cheats now !Black can man said:
London424 said:
Can't come soon enough.
The quicker that st as seen in the Liverpool game is stamped out the better.
Carragher & Henry thought it was a penalty too. The quicker that s
t as seen in the Liverpool game is stamped out the better. So that's just the three then .
Technology has been fantastic for cricket, cannot see why it cannot be for football too.
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