Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Video evidence? No thanks
My biggest gripe with video evidence is when would it be used? Just for goal line incidents or for other stuff as well?
Can you imagine if there had been video replays available at Anfield the other week when Liverpool played Tottenham. I would have been a very unhappy bunny indeed. Defoe's goal would have stood and there's some that wouldn't not have given the late penalty.
Rio Ferdinand would be in the dock for his handbags with that Hull player the other day. On a side note, why no hue and cry over that? Perhaps had it been Gallas he would already be doing bird.
Football at the moment, for all its sins is fair. The guys who play in the Premier League follow the same rules as the guys who play in the Rushmoor Sunday League and everyone still blames the ref when they lose. Keep it that way.
Interrupted sports is an American thing and they can, like Michael Bolton and Fox News, keep it. Imagine watching a game at Old Trafford or Anfield. they'll be appealling everything including if they lose the toss. 3pm kick offs won't finish till the next day.
One argument could be that there would be a limit on the number of appeals. There used to be a limit on the number of substitutes as well, remember? One. Then three, then five then seven.
Clubs and leagues will soon start tweaking for no other reason than they can and it will be the fan who suffers. Woops, sorry. That don't wash anymore. The TV companies won't like it. Who am I kidding? Of course they will. This appeal against a handball is brought to you by Blah Blah Blah Roofing and Tiling from the High Street. Call Ted for a quote.
I'm not against change per se. But how can something like video evidence be introduced fairly and equitably across the board. And I can't see a way.
In fact to show you how open minded I am why not just have a fourth official watching the game on TV monitors. When he sees the ref or lino err then he can just yell down the two way radio oi ref, you dropped a bollock on that one son.
Trouble is with thousands of fans yelling the same thing he won't know who to listen to.
Can you imagine if there had been video replays available at Anfield the other week when Liverpool played Tottenham. I would have been a very unhappy bunny indeed. Defoe's goal would have stood and there's some that wouldn't not have given the late penalty.
Rio Ferdinand would be in the dock for his handbags with that Hull player the other day. On a side note, why no hue and cry over that? Perhaps had it been Gallas he would already be doing bird.
Football at the moment, for all its sins is fair. The guys who play in the Premier League follow the same rules as the guys who play in the Rushmoor Sunday League and everyone still blames the ref when they lose. Keep it that way.
Interrupted sports is an American thing and they can, like Michael Bolton and Fox News, keep it. Imagine watching a game at Old Trafford or Anfield. they'll be appealling everything including if they lose the toss. 3pm kick offs won't finish till the next day.
One argument could be that there would be a limit on the number of appeals. There used to be a limit on the number of substitutes as well, remember? One. Then three, then five then seven.
Clubs and leagues will soon start tweaking for no other reason than they can and it will be the fan who suffers. Woops, sorry. That don't wash anymore. The TV companies won't like it. Who am I kidding? Of course they will. This appeal against a handball is brought to you by Blah Blah Blah Roofing and Tiling from the High Street. Call Ted for a quote.
I'm not against change per se. But how can something like video evidence be introduced fairly and equitably across the board. And I can't see a way.
In fact to show you how open minded I am why not just have a fourth official watching the game on TV monitors. When he sees the ref or lino err then he can just yell down the two way radio oi ref, you dropped a bollock on that one son.
Trouble is with thousands of fans yelling the same thing he won't know who to listen to.
# posted by Me @ 8:23 PM 
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