Not sure that that will help the game much, less goals. I agree with it for goal-line technology, but for things like all potentially iffy goals where's the redress the other way. The thing is most refs err on the defenders side most of the time, so these 50/50s that invariably go defenders ways, could all lead to goals. You just can't cut them all out.I'd say give the ref powers to refer any goals he has his doubts about upstairs, like the NB rule in DRS
Play the passage until it comes to its natural end. Do it in union with the advantage law without any problems.Where do you start looking though? The game has few stoppages. Does the ref tell the video bloke "Go back about a minute and a half, I might have missed an illegal challenge when the team who just scored took possession?"
Tend to think you just run with goal line technology tbh. The primacie of the goal is what makes football, football.
You'd have thought so with something as major as the ball crossing the goal-line. Shouldn't be that difficult.Also there are fairly regularly 6 or 7 minute periods when the ball doesn't go out of play, it seems silly that the two teams would play on for that long not sure whether it's going to count or not.
Maybe they could get an official to look at the video while the game is still going on and inform the ref via earpiece.
It very much annoys me how little this has been noted by journalists and news reporters.Was offside Anyway
You'd hope it would be like the no ball issue in cricket. If a plumb LBW is not given and they review it, only to find out that it's a no ball, then it will remain not out and a no ball will be given. Presumably if football was to have a similar system they'd look at the whole passage of play and simply end the whole process if they find out that it was offside before the chance was created anyway.The fact it was offside raises a decent question tbf. With goal line tech in place presumably a goal would have been given. That doesn't seem right really. Thoughts?
Not on this forum, thankfully. Haven't read the tabloids though.We have our traditional scapegoat now. If they had spotted the fouls on John Terry, Ingerlund would have won. We woz robbed etc...
Not on this forum, thankfully. Haven't read the tabloids though.
That being said, I think we should credit the assistant ref for spotting Andy Carroll looking at his marker in a funny way and penalising him accordingly whilst Terry and other were having their shirts removed.
Doesn't mean we were robbed, obv.