Adding extra referee's + using new technology.
By redthaidevil
@redthaidevil (1047)
Thailand
November 10, 2009 11:56pm CST
I'm sure in the previous decade, football or soccer has been one of the most popular sports in the world. As from now there is alot of money being involved in this prestegious game.
But for supporters like me who love to watch football, the thing that irritates me the most are referees. I'm a life long Manchester fan and I've seen many horrible decisions in my past 7 years of watching almost every match. One of the worsts decisions which cost us was the Scholes offside Vs. Porto when Porto on the CL. Scholes goal was clearly onside but yet they call it offside. The most latest blunders were against Chelsea which again, cost us the match.
I think it is time that we all did something about this as this really does make fans furious.
New technologies for off side decisions should be used, there should be challenges like Tennis where a video replay of the incident should be used or moreover there should be sensor from the soccer boots, ball, and players to check whether they were offside or not.
Also adding extra referees to look at more acute angles of the game should be real worth the investment. Let's say we have 1 referee who looks after the inside incidents. Two extra referees who walk along side the pitch getting a better view of the incidents, I'm sure there should be a referee behind the goal posts to spot incidents like the N'Gog dive.
We need to make this game more stables and cause less incidents, I'm sure that the the technology implemented will cost no where near what Manutd sold CR7 for so please consider this UEFA.
4 responses
@MJay101 (710)
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12 Nov 09
"I'm a life long Manchester fan and I've seen many horrible decisions in my past 7 years of watching almost every match."
Oh, really?
United get the run of the ball, the luck, the dodgy decision, more than any other team in the country! Like earlier in the season, for instance, when Michael Owen scored the winner against City, 90 minutes after the final whistle should have been blown.
Aside from the partisan comments, though (Liverpool fan...), I do agree that more use should be made of technology within football. I think the danger is that the addition of too many gizmos and gimmicks breaks up the flow of the game, but I think that the extra linesman (on the goal line, in European tourneys) are a good idea.
I think where cameras immediately show clear cheating - e.g. Drogba's repeated diving, or even (*bites tongue*) David Ngog's dodgy pen - the decision on the pitch should be reversed. Or, at the very least, punishment meted out after the event.
But that would require the football authorities to be something other than spineless...
@smedtra (77)
• Turkey
11 Nov 09
I dont think adding video replays to judge decisions will do good for the game. It will ruin the mood of the players and that kind of breaks will make the game cold. That is against the spirit in my opinion.
On the other hand adding extra refree's might be a solution. If i'm not mistaken Euro League is played with 5+1 refree's right now for a test. But after all refree mistakes might happen all the time. As long as they're not too often and not deliberate they're acceptable.
@anishmalik13 (13)
• India
11 Nov 09
seems to me that FA need to have system in place whereby the managers can complain referee's without having to grow through media to make a point.Chelsea got knocked out of champions league semi final because of utterly bad refereeing. I personally like the way is refereeing is done. We don't want no technology to decide offside and other offenses. But then again, what goes around comes back around.
