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posted on 16/4/12

I say while we're at it give the fourth official a small monitor for instant replays and to see if an individual indeed did dive or not.

comment by Ruiney (U1005)

posted on 16/4/12

P.S. What would the media be like if Young was English
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I dread to imagine.

posted on 16/4/12

The problem is proving that they dive, and that is a very difficult task.

posted on 16/4/12

The technology is available for all of the misdemeanors being aired on these forums,ball crossing the goal line,diving.offside decisions.
Its used in numerous other sports,why not fooball.

posted on 16/4/12

comment by Serial WUManiser - Disciple of Boy Bastin - Show me the head of Gazidis - Minding the Gap #prayforashley (U1410) posted 1 minute ago

The problem is proving that they dive, and that is a very difficult task.

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Video technology should come in, or video evidence should be reviewed after the game. But some diving is pretty obvious even in real time (i.e. Young yesterday).

posted on 16/4/12

The trouble with this is – there is too much down to interpretation.
Some decisions are clear and obvious – if a ball is over a line it is over (that’s a topical one!)
Other decisions are down to interpretation… is a foul worth a yellow card? There is a degree of interpretation in that. The same too for diving now. People are not in agreement as to what actually constitutes a dive…
If it was just for no contact and the player goes down – it wouldn’t actually deal with the vast majority of dives – where the player feels the absolute faintest of touches… or the player makes the contact themselves.

posted on 16/4/12

Other decisions are down to interpretation

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There's no relevance to that statement, already a referee has to make that decision, all you are doing with video-technology is helping him to make the right one. If you can't prove someone dived with video, then he didn't dive, simples.

posted on 16/4/12

Wengooner – Two referees might see the same incident and judge it differently in the context of the game. Video replays do not produce unanimous agreement of decisions. That is all. A video might be able to show a ball on or off the pitch – if will not necessarily be able to show whether a player “dived”. If a player feels a slightest of nudges in his back – and goes it ground, is it a foul? The line of what is “enough” to award a foul is quite blurred in reality.

If a player jumps down and sticks his leg out on the way down to get contact – then is that a dive? Afterall there is contact…

If a player goes in recklessly and someone jumps out of the way – that technically is a dive, but in the context of the game it perhaps isn’t… you don’t have to stand still and get your leg broken to have the foul awarded.

I don’t think it is black and white, that is all. Video evidence doesn’t end the debate – and even after seeing the evidence there are often still disagreements.

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