I'm not a fan, prefering the falability of a single bloke in the middle (with his little helpers on the lines, of course).

But, if it gets rid of diving, it's hard to argue.

Did last night's match last 36 hours?

The issue I have is so many decisions are subjective. Handballs, dives, fouls to one person are not to another.

no, mistakes and poor decisions are part and parcel of the game, and those are the things you talk about in the pub after.

Yes, definitely worth, no more con artists in the game, if means it exposes cheating divers especially in La Liga

comment by just plain old Dunc (U11713)
posted 4 minutes ago
no, mistakes and poor decisions are part and parcel of the game, and those are the things you talk about in the pub after.
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Bet the player who loses a game because of a crap decision doesn't agree though.

It isn't just dives, it's also fouls where an official has seemed a player to have dived.

but its swings and roundabouts, you'll lose games because of it and you'll win games because of it.

Great idea

Any clips of the incident that they used it for last night, to see how long it too and how it was used etc?

I dunno, but it says:

"You could see that the referee stopped play for a couple of seconds and during those seconds the two referees in the truck verified that there was no penalty," Infantino told Italy's Rai TV.

Compared to other global sports football is operating in the dark ages. The officials need help. Embracing the technology of the 21st century is a no brainer as far as I'm concerned.

I know it was definitely used in the Italy vs France match yesterday.

The referees will get worse and worse, and nesh out of making any important decisions for themselves.

Tried to get into the Rugby World Cup, they literally didn't make a decision themselves, everything went to the video ref, even when you could hear the referee saying he thinks it was out but wan't it 'confirming'.

As long as the rules are clear, on what can and cannot be looked at on video, and it's consistent then okay, give it a go.

All for it, but only if it is done quickly as per the couple of seconds last night.

There will be many issues to iron out? For example, where do the refs stop the play and what kind of incidents should they use this for.

For goals, offside decisions, penalty decisions, etc. Happy for that

Nothing else

When refs go to video replay it means they're bottling the decision making part of their job.

When refs don't go to video replay it means they're arrogant w@nks or favour one team over the other.

Where do you stop for offside though?

If a midfielder plays a through ball and the striker may or may not be a few inches offside, defenders put their arms up, linesman flags, striker contests decision, then what?

Do we have to let every play continue until the ball is out of play to see if he would've scored or not?