Football (Soccer)

It's almost a comedy scenario.

They can have goal line technology for a rubber puck flying around on ice at a million mph, in a goal the size of a matchbox, with a man the size of the goal defending it, but not football.

-AC

A matchbox-sized goalkeeper?

Well that would still work.

-AC

Is he matchbox-sized?

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
I don't really see why a 10 second consultation (or headset contact) with an official in the stands who has access to replays would be detrimental to the game.

It's just bullshit. How is a little hold-up more damaging than not having a perfectly good goal stand? It's like they want the little mistakes in there for discussion points. Although the discussion is always just 'these mistakes are shit, why don't we sort it out?'

Technically the game wouldn't even have to stop, the official in the stands could just relay the message to the ref while play continues.

Not having goalline technology, as well, is just pathetic. Relying on some 45 year old fat guy to spot a 60mph shot going marginally over a line 30 yards away.

in many of the other sports it hardly slows the game down. and by the time the players either argue why or why it wasnt a goal they could have had a decision from another referee who has seen the replay. i'm sure the fans would appreciate a more honest game and it would promote a bit more honesty to kids who are huge fans of the game.

goal line technology would be good really. but the game needs controversy, soccer with goal line technology would be like giving football a leash.

hmm well it made sense to me...i think

That's all very well and good for someone neutral, but for supporters and most IMPORTANTLY, people earning a living off success, success impeded by incompetence isn't "exciting".

-AC

Another thing I remembered about the Man City game, the ball goes over the line for a corner, a good 2 feet and Hart grabs it and pulls it in play and tries to pretend it didnt go out... reminds me of the Mendes 'goal'

Not only is it pathetic, it's unsportsmanlike.

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
It's almost a comedy scenario.

They can have goal line technology for a rubber puck flying around on ice at a million mph, in a goal the size of a matchbox, with a man the size of the goal defending it, but not football.

-AC

Couldn´t agree more, but maybe theres a reason for them not using technology, match fixing or something similiar? Theres a lot of money about in football and a wheres there´s money there´s corruption.

The mention of human emotions is also a good point.
for example, If theres a player from a team your refereeing who is an arrogant annoying git, or you just can´t stand the bloke for whatever reason. Then when something happens, foul, close offside decision etc a decision has to be made in a short amount of time. Anyone human could without noticing it, have emotions nudge the decision in a certain direction.

Its time technology played a role, the level of football is very high and small mistakes decide games, unfortunately in some occasions its the referee´s mistakes not a players.

If I was a ref i'd be soo biased haha... players like Diouf, Terry and Reyes would feel my wrath every game.

Originally posted by Bicnarok
Couldn´t agree more, but maybe theres a reason for them not using technology, match fixing or something similiar?

I don't think there are any sensible reasons for not using technology, but there are many good reasons for not using match fixing or something similar.

What is similar to match fixing, though? Something similar?

I think something similar to match-fixing would just be something a lot like that thing, match-fixing.

-AC

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
I think something similar to match-fixing would just be something a lot like that thing, match-fixing.

-AC

something similar to match fixing would be match UN-fixing.

I don´t know if you are aware but in some Asia countires betting is a big business, not only on the outcome of the game. But on things like "how the first goal is scored", "how many yellow cards", "how many fouls", "who scores the second goal", which minute the first goal was scored" etc..

These things could be steered into place by a referee without having to decide an actual game.

Is this similar enough 😈 💃

You can bet on such things here.

I don't see the problem with having camera in the goal posts.. most teams have monitor's in the dug outs now. I'm sure the 4th official could stop the very demanding job of holding a board up every now and then to look at a replay for a few seconds.

I don't like the idea of having more refs around the goal. after all the whole point of the technology debate was to cut out human error.. and now they are on about bringing in more people. I don't know where they are getting these refs from either seeing as the number of professional refs is dropping all the time.

I don't know if you guys remember but in the 2006 world cup each game had 5 refs.. an extra one sitting there just incase. If they can do that I am sure they could have giving him a monitor to look at replays on.

I agree the more humans involved the more room for mistakes there are, negative redundancy.

Put a chip in the friggin ball and an advanced camera referee somewhere like in rugby.

Originally posted by Bicnarok
something similar to match fixing would be match UN-fixing.

I don´t know if you are aware but in some Asia countires betting is a big business, not only on the outcome of the game. But on things like "how the first goal is scored", "how many yellow cards", "how many fouls", "who scores the second goal", which minute the first goal was scored" etc..

These things could be steered into place by a referee without having to decide an actual game.

Is this similar enough 😈 💃

As VVD said, you can bet on those here. For instance, I put twenty quid on Havant & Waterloo scoring first against Liverpool, won a fortune.

the reason i think they havent done it is because if they did it in the premier league, they'd set the precedent and have to do it in the championship and league 1 and 2 and all over the world in every league. it would cost a lot of money.

Originally posted by Bicnarok
something similar to match fixing would be match UN-fixing.

I don´t know if you are aware but in some Asia countires betting is a big business, not only on the outcome of the game. But on things like "how the first goal is scored", "how many yellow cards", "how many fouls", "who scores the second goal", which minute the first goal was scored" etc..

These things could be steered into place by a referee without having to decide an actual game.

Is this similar enough 😈 💃

You use the word 'similar' in the same way I use the word 'same'.

If you said the sentence above, you'd say:

You use the word 'same' in a similar way to the way I use the word 'similar'.

The result would be that I'd be right, and you'd be wrong.

Phat J, when I play tennis with me mates I don't employ an umpire, ball boys, towel girls, and line judges to officiate. We also don't have computer-generated representations of close line calls.

Probably go something like that in football, too.

Originally posted by Phat J
the reason i think they havent done it is because if they did it in the premier league, they'd set the precedent and have to do it in the championship and league 1 and 2 and all over the world in every league. it would cost a lot of money.

But baseball, hockey, basketball and American football can have cameras for important calls.

This is most popular sport in the world on where teams bring millions of dollars a year. They can afford a few cameras at the goalpost.