Refereeing Technology

[Bacika 188]

We need technology for offside and goal-line technology...I'm sick of this "human errors"...

[blue_swaggin_96 96]

were not only team suffering from this mistake, is part of the game, all this technology crap is annoying.. shut up or put up! the ref are just biased towards every team who plays manure nothing will ever change!

[Beirut_Blues 306]

I dont see how clubs losing shit loads of money, fans getting in riots because of bad calls is a positive to the game. But sure, if you get thrills over being frustrated at the decisions, good for you.

Ya I get turned on.

[dave30 728]

Should only be for goal-line decisions and even then a system in which play does not have to be stopped would be preferable e.g chip in the ball which lights up sensors around the goal posts if it has crossed the line. Technology for other decisions offside's ect would be a disaster in my opinion... everyone loves a bit of controversy and lets be honest we may be furious about yesterday but we get more than our fair share of dubious calls given our way.

[Spike 12,049]

Maybe if the linesmen - paid professional linesmen did their jobs properly this would be a non-issue.

[Buffalo talks Blue 85]

Earlier yesterday Suarez got a goal disallowed. Apparently that was offside. Officials seriously needs to take this matter under consideration. They allow offside goals and rules out an onside one. It's a shame. A huge sport like football which is reckoned all around the globe should not have such improper decision.

[Buffalo talks Blue 85]

He should have been booked for his goal for unsporting behaviour.

Balotelli gets booked every time for his celebration. And people calls him a crack. Whats Chicharito then?

[Buffalo talks Blue 85]

yeah. The linesman said it was an offside goal.

[Naked Mole Rat 437]

Robots. Robots are the answer. Robots are the future. They should definitely build some robot referees. I love robots.

[terraloon 5]

I think we all need to be careful for what we wish for here.

Football is all about opinions and whilst I agree with gaol line technology being introduced to prove if the decision to allow or disallow the goal was correct( as an aside was Raphel saying the ball the ball wasnt over the line when clearly it was any different to simulation?)There are so many things that can have a bearing on an offside that I worry that that may be too far.

How about these two scenarios. The first was it offside and the ball ends up in the net? If yes then the goal is disallowed which is I guess what the majority would think was ok but what about where offside was given and instant replays show it wasnt. How can you deal with that? If the purpose of looking at offsides to make sure the decsion is correct you have to be able to deal with both situations.

For me the one change I would make is to take away the refs option to book for simulation.Let the ref make the decision was it in his opinion a foul or not. But after the final whistle the video of the game should be looked at and if there is a clear dive then rather than booking a player in real time issue an immediate suspension.That really isnt a million miles away from the rules as they stand namely if a ref didnt deal with something during the game it can be revisied

As an aside can anyone confirm that the communication system the ref/ fourth offical and linesman have can indeed be muted?

[samzilla 517]

It's pretty simple: football isn't played with the same style match balls from 100 years ago. Boots aren't the same. Climacool kits. Technology progresses. These things don't even affect the integrity of the game. The rules that do affect the integrity of the game need to be brought into the modern era as well. Until then, we're wasting progress on the piddly details.

[zolayes 14,489]

It's pretty simple: football isn't played with the same style match balls from 100 years ago. Boots aren't the same. Climacool kits. Technology progresses. These things don't even affect the integrity of the game. The rules that do affect the integrity of the game need to be brought into the modern era as well. Until then, we're wasting progress on the piddly details.

The football authorities FIFA EUFA and our FA are too arrogant to realise they could learn from other sports ...

Rugby Cricket Tennis and Golf have all embraced technology while Football is happy to say mistakes are part of the game and add to the

excitement

[RamiCFC9 258]

No need for Refereeing technology , just ban Clattenburg & Webb.

Agree man, I say even ban ManUTD can't stand that shitty club at all.With few exceptions always playing shit football, always winning with some miracles or massively biased referee decisions, can't wait for the old cunt to die.

[Heisenberg 1,824]

Agree man, I say even ban ManUTD can't stand that shitty club at all.With few exceptions always playing shit football, always winning with some miracles or massively biased referee decisions, can't wait for the old cunt to die.

Come on man , its just football , cant believe you want SAF to be dead.

[YouNameIt 1,511]

This is needed, no matter what some people say. Is it really excuseable losing a game, mostly important ones, due to a referee making a huge error in the decisionmaking? Why on earth should this be tolerated?

These useless referees they have introduced to watch carefully whats going on in the box, they do NOTHING good. Put them in some room with access to all cameras and whenever there is doubt about say if a ball is over the line or not, its a matter of seconds for them to watch the replay and say goal or not.

The same should go for handball etc in the box. It's an absolute disgrace having to be robbed of a goal, win etc just because the ref is either wrong, bought or simply a fan of the other team. However the big issue here is money. There is so much corruption in this sport and I know a vast majority arent really aware of this and just laugh at it when u bring it up, but the ammount of money that is on stake and the money to make is silly. The corruption you see in countries such as Italy and Turkey is everywhere, its just that its more hidden.

However the thing that upsets me the most is that these referees arent even questioned or anything. I mean if a doctor, police or nurse would handle her job the way Clattenburg, Webb etc have done it, they would be charged and fired.

[Kunter 22]

I would like to have every goal reviewed by a ref. like they do it in the NFL.

AFAIK they got an ref. sitting in a room who gets the best cameraview for replay an decides if the score is regular.

A chip in the ball would help too.

Aslong it don´t interrupts the game bring it on!

[Fernando 6,458]

Football's rule-making body, the International Football Association Board (IFAB), is to hold preliminary discussions at its next meeting on the use of sin bins and video replays to help referees, FIFA said on Monday.

FIFA emphasised that both proposals were included for discussion only and could be submitted for further examinations to IFAB's two new advisory panels.

The items were "not yet at the stage of being considered...for decision in terms of alterations to the existing laws of the game," world football's governing body said.

The controversial "triple punishment", where a player concedes a penalty, is sent off and then has to serve an automatic suspension, will also be on the agenda as a discussion item at the meeting in Zurich on March 1.

IFAB will also decide whether to allow male players to use headgear on religious grounds and permit so-called "rolling substitutions" in amateur and recreational football.

These would allow players who had been substituted to return to the pitch later in the match, a move designed to bring greater flexibility and maintain interest in grass-roots football.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter and his UEFA counterpart Michel Platini have both advocated the use of sin bins, in which players would sit out for five to ten minutes for certain offences.

The inclusion of video replays, which are used in other sports such as rugby and cricket, on the agenda is something of a surprise, however, as football has in general been wary of using any form of technology to help match officials.

It took years of debate for the sport to accept the use of goal-line technology, which was finally approved in 2012 after a series of controversies where goals were shown to have been wrongly disallowed because officials had not seen the ball cross the line.

Platini remained opposed to goal-line technology all along, saying it would open the way for the use of other technology, and said in August that FIFA had opened a "Pandora's box" of technology by allowing it.

IFAB has recently been reformed and two new advisory panels, one representing players and coaches and the other representing referees, will now examine proposed changes and provide suggestions to the eight-man board.

The new structure is expected to give IFAB more freedom to experiment with proposed changes.

The use of headgear for men appears set to be approved following a two-year trial period. Women Muslim players were given permission to wear headscarves two years ago.

"After a two-year pilot, there is no indication as to why the wearing of head covers should be prohibited, as long as their design restrictions are respected as defined in the pilot," said a proposed amendment.

"Furthermore, the male football community has also raised the need for male players to be permitted to wear head covers, as it is considered discriminatory."

More info:

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/279667.html

http://asia.eurosport.com/football/fifa-sin-bins-video-replays-could-be-used_sto4121238/story.shtml

[cosmicway 1,323]

That's a very interesting topic.

I support technology - it will make things 80% fair from what is now 50-50.

The video cameras can be used to assist the referee and it is a question of establishing a hierarchy in the decision making process that does not interrupt the flow of the game. That is n't so difficult as it sounds.

First if the play has stopped then the question of flow does n't exist. A throw-in given to the wrong team can be corrected, a goal kick that should have been a corner kick can be corrected and so on.

If the ball is played then it is a question of speed. If the video ref decides in time then he overrides the referee in the pitch. If he works out it was a penalty 20 minutes later then of course it's dead and gone.

There are cases where nothing can be done. If a player has been flagged off side and he was n't off side, then it's over.

Some diabolical things happen now, causing mistrust and sometimes violence.

An extreme case was last year's cup final of Greece, Olympiakos Piraeus v. Asteras of Tripoli.

See the video below.

What happens here is the defender wearing the no 2 uses his elbow to stop the ball that was going in. That penalty was not given, but a corner was given instead ! Well, hundreds of incidents like that happen but the crazy thing is this:

The referee and fourth referee have conference for two minutes. During this time tv shows two replays, speaker and guest speakers talk to each other "John that's a penalty ain't it", "yeah, Jim clear case of handballing" and then the two refs decide it was not ! A small national scandal errupts as a result !

There is an explanation as latter analysis showed. The referee's view was obstructed by players. The fourth referee's view was also obstructed by the post (defender's arm was hidden by the post where the fourth referee stood). Both have no right to consult the tv, even if they wanted to. So that was it !

But it proves 100% my point. The introduction of video refereeing is a must.