As long as some form of technology to assist officials is used I'm not bothered tbh
But something does have to change
When will you guys get over it? You never got the world cup in 2018 either, just accept it
Sky claim that all the technology is in place in England. No testing etc is needed.
But why have technology for a (relatively) insignificant thing?
I would put penalties, red cards and offsides way before 'was it over the line or not'?
The issue of goal-line technology is highlighed in The Labour Party’s next election manifesto. They feel it is a waste of money as they are planning to ban the scoring of goals in English football.
Under amendments to Equality Legislation, any team scoring a goal will be viewed as having committed an act of aggressive discrimination against their “Co-Entertainers”, as such an act is likely to cause their “Sporting Brothers” a feeling of inferiority and loss of self-value. Any offenders will be sent for counselling and a nice cup of tea, and the goal will be disallowed on the grounds of “Ungentlemanly Behaviour”.
Tackling will also be banned and replaced with the non-confontational verbal exchange of “After you, Sir”, “No,No. After you”.
Through these simple equality measures, all teams in a division will end the season on the same points and goal difference, everyone will be happy and a joint winners parade can be held – in London of course.
I think that's a very good idea OP. it would be no different than when the Lino flags up play. Perhaps a separate video ref though.
Yeah that would be good. At least they could make calls on all sorts and even if the ref blows for a pen, the video ref can then confirm yes or no. If no, great, the defending team will be chuffed and they can resume play from where it was stopped.
Goal line tech just seems way too iffy for a decision that only affects a few games a year whereas offsides etc crop up almost every weekend
i can understand where michel platini is coming from when he doesnt want technology in the game, if you bring in GLT does it then open the door to every decision being open to challenge, where do you draw the line. if it was guaranteed that GLT and only GLT would ever be brought in then i would be all for it.
if you bring in GLT does it then open the door to every decision being open to challenge, where do you draw the line.
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You establish a rule and inform Clubs, players and officials that goal line incidents only will be reviewed by TV if necessary by the Ref during the course of play.
What's difficult about that? They will understand.
I suppose I'm just surprised that it's 'crossed the line' decisions that are being held in such high regard. They don't crop up very often at all and probably the least required decision. This isn't something that happens every week or even every other week.
I think things like offside decisions and stamping put diving etc are far more important. If a player dives, the video ref can just let the ref know, he can then reverse the free kick to the other team and book the diver.
Wouldn't take long for diving to be mainly eradicated. Goal line technology just seems to me to be a really unimportant aspect, well not unimportant but no way as significant or frequent as so many other things that could do with sorting first.
A video ref would however also be able to clear up goal line issues...bonus lol
Every other sport in the world embraces new technology. Football is still run by dinosaurs for dinosaurs. The game and supporters needs bringing into the 21st century.
For all the money thrown at it, there are still far too many wrong decisions that affect many, many outcomes of important matches. That has to change.
No, no, no; if we are to use GLT then Human Error needs to be totally removed. We've seen many cases where incidents have been looked at over and over again and yet we still can't determine for sure if a ball has crossed the line or not and so the use of a video ref is flawed!
They use this in Cricket and Rugby and we still get indecision over whether a ball was grounded, did he go into touch, did he get it down before he went into touch, was his bat raised as the bails came off, was any part of his foot behind the line. Look at the controversey following England V Wales recently over a Try not given; video refs will solve nothing, they'll just be another official to moan about; we need proper technology like Hawkeye or nothing!
Goal line technology is probably the least important in my opinion. Every PL weekend there are couple of controversial offsides/cards etc. However goal-line incidents are probably once or twice a season. Even if the technology is there it will fix only a small fraction of wrong decisions.
Football could do with a system of 'challenges' similar to tennis/cricket etc. Each team can be given two challenges which they can use whenever the game halts. The can be allowed to challenge a wrong offside, wrong goal, wrong card etc. It should only halt the game for a maximum of couple of minutes and if the 4th official is not certain then the ref's decisions stands. Allowing limited challenges will make sure that the halts are rare. I know its a step too far for the traditional fan but ti seems the only fair way to avoid large controversies. Its a price worth paying in the age where every move is scrutinised on TV from 4-5 different angles.
Personally I don't have much of a problem with the odd off-side or penalty decision being questionable, they are usually marginal and even a video ref will struggle to identify if a player went down easily or not. One thing we can eliminate Human Error from is whether the ball crossed the line, other decisions will remain open to Human Error whether it's on the part of the ref or a video ref!
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No one will have any problem if the borderline offside/card decisions are not overruled by the video ref. It is the obvious errors where a video ref can be useful and there are at least 2-3 such cases each weekend. Goal line technology is fine, however it will probably only help in 2-3 cases per season. It doesn't make sense to invest a huge amount in technology (or extra officials) for something which is very rarely needed.
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posted on 20/6/12
As long as some form of technology to assist officials is used I'm not bothered tbh
But something does have to change
posted on 20/6/12
When will you guys get over it? You never got the world cup in 2018 either, just accept it
posted on 20/6/12
Sky claim that all the technology is in place in England. No testing etc is needed.
posted on 20/6/12
But why have technology for a (relatively) insignificant thing?
I would put penalties, red cards and offsides way before 'was it over the line or not'?
posted on 21/6/12
The issue of goal-line technology is highlighed in The Labour Party’s next election manifesto. They feel it is a waste of money as they are planning to ban the scoring of goals in English football.
Under amendments to Equality Legislation, any team scoring a goal will be viewed as having committed an act of aggressive discrimination against their “Co-Entertainers”, as such an act is likely to cause their “Sporting Brothers” a feeling of inferiority and loss of self-value. Any offenders will be sent for counselling and a nice cup of tea, and the goal will be disallowed on the grounds of “Ungentlemanly Behaviour”.
Tackling will also be banned and replaced with the non-confontational verbal exchange of “After you, Sir”, “No,No. After you”.
Through these simple equality measures, all teams in a division will end the season on the same points and goal difference, everyone will be happy and a joint winners parade can be held – in London of course.
posted on 21/6/12
^^
posted on 21/6/12
I think that's a very good idea OP. it would be no different than when the Lino flags up play. Perhaps a separate video ref though.
posted on 21/6/12
Yeah that would be good. At least they could make calls on all sorts and even if the ref blows for a pen, the video ref can then confirm yes or no. If no, great, the defending team will be chuffed and they can resume play from where it was stopped.
Goal line tech just seems way too iffy for a decision that only affects a few games a year whereas offsides etc crop up almost every weekend
posted on 21/6/12
i can understand where michel platini is coming from when he doesnt want technology in the game, if you bring in GLT does it then open the door to every decision being open to challenge, where do you draw the line. if it was guaranteed that GLT and only GLT would ever be brought in then i would be all for it.
posted on 21/6/12
if you bring in GLT does it then open the door to every decision being open to challenge, where do you draw the line.
***
You establish a rule and inform Clubs, players and officials that goal line incidents only will be reviewed by TV if necessary by the Ref during the course of play.
What's difficult about that? They will understand.
posted on 21/6/12
I suppose I'm just surprised that it's 'crossed the line' decisions that are being held in such high regard. They don't crop up very often at all and probably the least required decision. This isn't something that happens every week or even every other week.
I think things like offside decisions and stamping put diving etc are far more important. If a player dives, the video ref can just let the ref know, he can then reverse the free kick to the other team and book the diver.
Wouldn't take long for diving to be mainly eradicated. Goal line technology just seems to me to be a really unimportant aspect, well not unimportant but no way as significant or frequent as so many other things that could do with sorting first.
A video ref would however also be able to clear up goal line issues...bonus lol
posted on 21/6/12
Every other sport in the world embraces new technology. Football is still run by dinosaurs for dinosaurs. The game and supporters needs bringing into the 21st century.
For all the money thrown at it, there are still far too many wrong decisions that affect many, many outcomes of important matches. That has to change.
posted on 21/6/12
No, no, no; if we are to use GLT then Human Error needs to be totally removed. We've seen many cases where incidents have been looked at over and over again and yet we still can't determine for sure if a ball has crossed the line or not and so the use of a video ref is flawed!
They use this in Cricket and Rugby and we still get indecision over whether a ball was grounded, did he go into touch, did he get it down before he went into touch, was his bat raised as the bails came off, was any part of his foot behind the line. Look at the controversey following England V Wales recently over a Try not given; video refs will solve nothing, they'll just be another official to moan about; we need proper technology like Hawkeye or nothing!
posted on 21/6/12
Goal line technology is probably the least important in my opinion. Every PL weekend there are couple of controversial offsides/cards etc. However goal-line incidents are probably once or twice a season. Even if the technology is there it will fix only a small fraction of wrong decisions.
Football could do with a system of 'challenges' similar to tennis/cricket etc. Each team can be given two challenges which they can use whenever the game halts. The can be allowed to challenge a wrong offside, wrong goal, wrong card etc. It should only halt the game for a maximum of couple of minutes and if the 4th official is not certain then the ref's decisions stands. Allowing limited challenges will make sure that the halts are rare. I know its a step too far for the traditional fan but ti seems the only fair way to avoid large controversies. Its a price worth paying in the age where every move is scrutinised on TV from 4-5 different angles.
posted on 21/6/12
Personally I don't have much of a problem with the odd off-side or penalty decision being questionable, they are usually marginal and even a video ref will struggle to identify if a player went down easily or not. One thing we can eliminate Human Error from is whether the ball crossed the line, other decisions will remain open to Human Error whether it's on the part of the ref or a video ref!
posted on 21/6/12
comment by Lambsy (U2861)
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No one will have any problem if the borderline offside/card decisions are not overruled by the video ref. It is the obvious errors where a video ref can be useful and there are at least 2-3 such cases each weekend. Goal line technology is fine, however it will probably only help in 2-3 cases per season. It doesn't make sense to invest a huge amount in technology (or extra officials) for something which is very rarely needed.
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