- Jul 24, 2013
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After today it was the final nail in the coffin so to speak, another pathetic performance from a PL referee.
Now let's say for example you aren't the "tinfoil hat" type and you completely ignore the possibility of match fixing and corruption, well then that leaves us with two possibilities 1.The referees are completely incompetent and not fit for the job in which case they need investigating and retraining, I know that there is always an element of human error involved but honestly, when you are looking directly at things along with your linesman and you are STILL incapable of making the right decision then that is just ridiculous.
2.Bias from the refs because of favouring certain teams and disliking others even if it just subconsciously, the media plays a huge part in this and last season we witnessed the impact it had on refs when dealing with Leicester, the second point is more controversial than the first however both of these points and the possibility of corruption leads to one simple and single answer...
Remove human error.
It's 2016, we have cameras in every part of each stadium, we have cameras that can spot someone picking their nose from a mile away, we have cameras that could probably provide a first person view of a bird shitting on Ashley Young's mouth at this point so why have we not got video reviews?
I have heard the argument "It would waste time, it would slow the game down" I heard this very same argument about goal line technology and lo and behold it did nothing, if anything video reviews would speed the game up as you would avoid the 5 mins of pissing and moaning from whatever player is protesting their innocence, all of the nonsense would stop as the evidence would exist to shut them up.
Not only that it would clean the game up, players would avoid diving more if not all together for fear of punishment in a game, refs would be more protected from their own bad decisions because even if they were incompetent then they could rectify their mistakes, also it completely removes any possibility of corruption, there are so many advantages to it that it literally baffles me as to why it isn't happening?
Has anybody started a petition over this yet to the FA? Is it even possible to do so? This game NEEDS it, football should be, at the bare minimum, fair.
Now let's say for example you aren't the "tinfoil hat" type and you completely ignore the possibility of match fixing and corruption, well then that leaves us with two possibilities 1.The referees are completely incompetent and not fit for the job in which case they need investigating and retraining, I know that there is always an element of human error involved but honestly, when you are looking directly at things along with your linesman and you are STILL incapable of making the right decision then that is just ridiculous.
2.Bias from the refs because of favouring certain teams and disliking others even if it just subconsciously, the media plays a huge part in this and last season we witnessed the impact it had on refs when dealing with Leicester, the second point is more controversial than the first however both of these points and the possibility of corruption leads to one simple and single answer...
Remove human error.
It's 2016, we have cameras in every part of each stadium, we have cameras that can spot someone picking their nose from a mile away, we have cameras that could probably provide a first person view of a bird shitting on Ashley Young's mouth at this point so why have we not got video reviews?
I have heard the argument "It would waste time, it would slow the game down" I heard this very same argument about goal line technology and lo and behold it did nothing, if anything video reviews would speed the game up as you would avoid the 5 mins of pissing and moaning from whatever player is protesting their innocence, all of the nonsense would stop as the evidence would exist to shut them up.
Not only that it would clean the game up, players would avoid diving more if not all together for fear of punishment in a game, refs would be more protected from their own bad decisions because even if they were incompetent then they could rectify their mistakes, also it completely removes any possibility of corruption, there are so many advantages to it that it literally baffles me as to why it isn't happening?
Has anybody started a petition over this yet to the FA? Is it even possible to do so? This game NEEDS it, football should be, at the bare minimum, fair.