PL wants cameras to help refs

[Drogo]

Maybe it's been posted before,

I read that the PL wants to begin with cameras to help the refs decide in difficult situations what actually happend, I mean that they would do this during the game.

[lost]

Excellent, if true. Rugby managed it with no problems, and football has become just as stop start as any gridiron sport, what with all the diving and gamesmanship. I am also pretty sure that replays were used at least twice in the wc, for the rooney carvalho incident and the zidane head butt. The UK controls half the 8 votes of the International Football Association Board when it comes to the rules of the game, so they would be a prime position to lead the way on the issue of cameras and tv replays to aid officials.

[chrizzah]

I have no problem with this as long as long as it is used sparingly and doesn't slow the game down. Initially, I would only allow it at the referee's discretion for checking if the ball crossed the line and possibly one-on-one penalty kick situations. If you start reviewing footage of off the ball incidents like Zidane's, some matches will practically grind to a halt.

[michaec]

This can be a good thing, as long as it's not used every few seconds. The problem with football that they don't have so much in other sports is that the players will be chasing the referee around to review every decision. In sports like rugby the players don't get in the referee's face, so it's purely the ref who decides when he needs to go to video evidence, he's not under pressure from players to review every incident. Alongside this I'd like to see retrospective video analysis of matches to be introduced and anyone found to be diving who got away with it during the game should be punished with a yellow card. Other more serious offences that were missed by the referee would be punished accordingly.

[chrizzah]

anyone found to be diving who got away with it during the game should be punished with a yellow card.

I would even go so far as to say a red in the case of particularly egregious dives like that El-Hadji Diouff dive against Blackburn.

[AllWhitebeliever]

Well diving is unsporting behaviour not serious misconduct and so it be a yellow card.

However divers tend to drive more than once and so two yellows cards would be one red card, four dives=four yellows=two red cards and therefore double the punishment.

Good incentive to stop divers, eh?

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hang loose guys

[AllWhitebeliever]

I have no problem with this as long as long as it is used sparingly and doesn't slow the game down. Initially, I would only allow it at the referee's discretion for checking if the ball crossed the line and possibly one-on-one penalty kick situations. If you start reviewing footage of off the ball incidents like Zidane's, some matches will practically grind to a halt.

As long as the ref has a choice the game should be moving reasonably well. In the off the ball incident of Zidene, the game came to a gringing halt anyway and if there was reviewing of the footage, I dare say that the ref's decision would be quicker with Zidene with a Red card and Materizzi with a yellow card (unsporting behivour).

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Hang loose guys.

[DynamoManu]

I don't think they need it but if they do hopefully it's limited to something like each team could have 1 replay per game for a critical point in the game.
The way I see it is calls are just another equation/obstacal...you get good calls and bad calls but so does the other team. It all evens out.

[Klogon]

What needs to happen is for there to be a seperate "video ref" asside from the traditional main ref + 2 assistants. This video ref would then make recommendations to the main ref through radio when prompted. The video ref would be stationed at the top of the stadium in a room with many TVs that he can access and request footage for.

This would help the flow of the game.