Video evidence in the FA
Should there be Video evidence in british football...i mean, referee's are just getting crapper and crapper...
They say it will take up to much of the game...they do it in rugby.
Has that got a reputation of being a slow game???
Toujours-Rouge
02-02-2005, 22:04
Yes, definately.
ProMonkians
02-02-2005, 22:04
Oui
Soccer - as I've grown accustomed to calling it - should have video replay because it's done wonders for sports like hockey and American football where it's hard to catch everything going on. Soccer/Football has a HUGE field. I doubt the referees can keep their eyes on everyone.
Fimble loving peoples
02-02-2005, 22:19
It should be implemented so long as they can do it without slowing gameplay, which I think can be done.
NO!!! Absolutly not!!!!
Why remove that extra something that gives spice to the game?
Also we remove some of our humanity....afterall you will find that the first reaction is against the ref for sure...but then its tempered to ...'well the ref is only human' etc etc
Zombie Lagoon
02-02-2005, 22:25
Yes, but only when the referee hasn't got a clue. In rugby they stop time completely when doing something like preparing for a scrum. But in football the time never stops and time is wasted quite a bit anyway.
Andaluciae
02-02-2005, 22:26
Video evidence is very useful. It's worked very nicely in American football, and the American College Football rules that were tested by the Big 10 conference this year seem to be very well done.
World wide allies
02-02-2005, 22:28
I'd say yes .. but I think Vonners also has a point.
I don't know what i'd do without the arguments at school the next day :)
Besides, who will I blame when Arsenal lose, I mean, not the video evidence because I can't ..
Alien Born
02-02-2005, 22:35
I voted yes, but I do not think that it can work in the way that it does in American Football, in the sense of reviewing a call before the play continues. Where it could be useful is in particularly critical situations (penalty, sending off, did the ball cross the goal line, etc.).
be more specific when you post 'football'. oh, and i think it's a good idea.... did you see the tottenham match, damn ref didn't see the goal so he didn't let it through. curse him!!!!
Wolfrest
02-02-2005, 22:39
Soccer - as I've grown accustomed to calling it - should have video replay because it's done wonders for sports like hockey and American football where it's hard to catch everything going on. Soccer/Football has a HUGE field. I doubt the referees can keep their eyes on everyone.
Same here bub :fluffle: LOL! No ideas, I already got a "main man" in my world.
Andaluciae
02-02-2005, 22:56
NO!!! Absolutly not!!!!
Why remove that extra something that gives spice to the game?
Soccer riots?
Soccer riots?
nah...that crap happens nowhere near the grounds these days
Maybe they could start with baby steps - like stopping the game clock when someone is injured, so the actual stoppage time was a little more accurate.
I thought the referees in yesterday's Arsenal-Manc game showed admirable restraint.
Neo Cannen
03-02-2005, 00:06
be more specific when you post 'football'
Why? Football (as Americans call it 'soccer') is a game where your feet and a ball encouter each other a great deal. Unlike American football or Australian football
I don't like what the video review has done to football and hockey, I'd hate to see one of the last hold-outs of old-fasioned sports go there too. I like soccer because unless someone does something really egregious, the game keeps going. In football, it has gotten to the point that, especially in big games, almost every play is analyzed to death.