cosmicway

If it's dead time you can reverse a bad decision. What you say is interesting, because in my video the yellows complained for hand ball but also that the cross was from out of bounds. The veteran ref who speaks in the video says it was no hand ball as well as no out of bounds. Suppose the hand ball was obvious. Then because play is stopped it's no problem to give a free kick to the yellows. Suppose now there is no hand ball but the out of bounds claim was true for the initial cross. That really calls for rolling things back in time. Maybe they can resort to this: Leave it up to the referee on the ground to resort to video help and if the video ref is definite about it then the referee on the ground accepts the verdict. As things stand now the referee is not even allowed to consult the video (e.g. Peru v. Brazil).

When it is dead time it's easy. Suppose a defender gives us a corner. The ref says goal kick, Alonso raises his arms and says "hey it's a corner". But by the time the ball boy gives the ball back to the players the referee is notified by the studio and changes his mind. No hassle. This will happen if it is clear in the video that it was a corner. When there is no dead time what happens ? A player is brought down in the penalty area the ref. thinks it was fair challenge and waves play on. The defender makes a long Fabregas pass and a goal is scored at the other end. But the video shows it was a pen. Now what ? In another situation if an attacker runs with the ball in open space and the linesman waves offside, but they see from the video it was n't offside then what happens ? Can we recall the players and ask them to take the exact same positions and resume ? It can work like this in my opinion: First in dead time all wrong decisions can be corrected - unless even the video can't help (unlikely but that too can happen). Second if there is no dead time they have to decide. Who can blow the wihistle ? The man on the ground or the man in the studio ? A case when even the video could not decide was the Greek cup semifinal of 2015. It was AEK - Olympiakos 0-1. Is Jara using his hand ? The one who speaks in this video below says he did n't, I can't decide. There are some 3 or 4 videos from different angles. No definite answer. The view from behind the goal posts is of no help either. In that one Franco Jara's body is hidden by a flag pole at the crucial moment !

I have n't seen videos. So they make them wait for ratification by the high court you say ? It need n't be so. Things do n't have to change so much. The ref. points to the centre circle and that's it. Now if there is a buzz in his earphone then he recalls it. As is we have seen many late disallowings - justified or otherwise. I remember Sevilla v. Benfica, the Europa cup final three years ago. Benfica scored and as that happened I left the room and then I thought Benfica had won the match but then people told me they had n't of course.

sorry !

How ? Many times goals are scored, we celebrate and then it does n't count. What changes ? Re. goals there will be somewhat fewer now with this new system though. But I don't think it's something weird. Only the position of the referee changes. It becomes something like water polo refereeing.

How goal celebration messes up with the effectiveness of video refereeing ? It's dead time.

Given that on the average the playtime is 62-63 minutes if they make it like basket ball with chronometer and if the matches last 60 minutes, it won't be much of a change. The other ideas are ludicrous. What the FIFA-UEFA supremos should do is introduce video refereeing. It's long overdue. They can easily work out what types of situation are amenable to correction after the replay video is played. We have seen some ridiculous situations like Peru v. Brazil last summer for the CONCACAF. Peru scored with a hand ball, everybody saw it but the goal counted.You may think that it was one of those things that happen in a football match, but the weird thing was that the referee and the linesman were conferring for five minutes to decide if it stands or not and in that time in the stadium's tv studio had seen it clear as daylight.

Ridiculous.

Alefantos does n't like Costa:

Ha. Like our Alefantos - the Greek manager-"legend". That one played for a small team in 1961 that saw the first division only once. Lost 8-0 and 10-1 to the big teams, Olympiakos-AEK that year then vanished again. Nowadays he appears on tv and criticizes everyone. From Johan Cruyff to the pope. Here he talks about United and Pogba:

Conte obviously looks forward to a team with the Juventus standard. Juve minus their less than sparkling performance in the final had a fantastic champions league. The way we played last year, we can do a little better than City but that's about it.

The Italian tabloids are paparazzi.

Captain the Jonkheer is a Dutch title.

The reverand.

Did the Saudi Arabians fail to stand to attention or is it they just did not stand in line like the other team ? I have seen many one minute silences where the players do not make a line but simply stand to attention at whatever spot they are in the field. If the Saudis don't normally observe silences, it can only be the fault of the organizers though imo.

ELENI LOUKA IN CHARGE OF AFFAIRS IN ENGLAND ! Brexit's wings were clipped a little yesterday. Theresa however stays at number 10 with new friends from Ireland:

Corbyn is for Brexit. If Corbyn the country will be called "sotzialiskayia britanskayia". As for Mayhem I like her in a bag with a cat immersed in water.

Boris has iq in the minus degrees centigrade.

Sergio Ramos today after he was touched by Cuadrado:

The fail of the year was Mou's UTD imho, then Wenger.

That's because the cup goes where the money goes. English clubs are playing second fiddle. Some semblance of effort from City I must admit, while Spuds-Arsene are pathetic. The romantic days are gone. In the sixties it was Real-Inter again but also Celtic had a squeak. Those years the Italians had the money. In 1965 they failed to bring Pele. Santos were asking for the record fee of 500,000 sterling and it was too much. 300,000 the Italians were prepared to give but not 500,000 ! If the Bosman law was to be reversed, only then will you see competition. But this has to be done by international agreements. If Brexit was to do something unilaterally, it will be useless and the English teams will be able to reach as far as the second preliminary of August. But if this is done it will be unfair to the players and limit their chances to make professional careers. For my country Greece the system works in catastrophic ways. The biggest Greek players ever were Mavros-Nestoridis-Domazos-Linoxylakis-Loukanidis and some others. Nowadays there are websites dedicated to them, streets named after and so on. But in today's world you would hear something like this: "that Nestoridis of AC Roma played for Greece for six months did n't he ? was it in AEK Aten or Panathinaikos, can't remember that !". That's for certain, if those players were modern day players. The last of the giants was Demis Nikolaidis who in the end moved to Atletico Madrid. So Greek teams reached out to say 50% of the top of Europe some 15 years ago, now they are back to 0.5% ! I can't decide. For the players it is loss of freedom, loss of incentives. For European football as a whole it concentrates power in two or three places.

Theresa will win this GE, don't be fooled. The polls are engineered to downgrade the Lib Dems and the Greens, so the objectives of the snap election are secured. Those objectives are a: make Jeremy the undisputed leader of the opposition, b: make Theresa + UKIP the strongest party in parliament. The disgustingly barbarian brexiteers are looking forward to plunge Europe into chaos, sidelined by the soon to be impeached Donald Trump and Putin from his dark corner. They want to see dictatorships and communism and they want to see people bombed and killed, just like in the middle East. Theresa and her mad followers also think UK will stay immune from all this. The chances of a miracle result that will stop all this appear to be very slender at this hour.

Diego was pissed with an opponent against L'pool, from Ramos it was calculated. The only similarity is the trial by video.

I don't know about that. Could he ? Certainly he was a flop here but then played very well for the Italian team. But he is not the player of some Bologna or some Lanerossi in Italy ! He is a champions league finalist now and we are a team who when last seen went out to little PSG in February 2016.

Roman ?