Instant video replays – the pink elephant in the living room of football

Couldn't agree more with your article. And the referee doesn't even have to stop play or refer to the video for every decision; only those that he may have doubts with. In which case, stopping a game for a few seconds while the video is consulted doesn't affect the flow of the game. It's interrupted all the time now by injuries anyway.

you forgot to mention liverpools non existant goal in the champions league

I don't see an arguement against it, after all the nature of the game is stop and start and the speed that most instances could be looked at would be as quick as most goal kicks anyway.

It's ridiculous, people talk of it slowing down the game, but let the game play on and if the 4th or 5th official spots anything untoward, they could alert the ref via radio and ear plugs (that cutting edge technology), and tell him to take action. Also another point, bit of a tangent but bear with; Who'd want to be a ref? constantly abused, no support etc etc, the only people i know who have become refs are geeks and those who were to shit at football. It's a profession hardly brimming with talented or level headed people. If you start protecting refs, making their job easier, more people would be willing to do the job, and the standards would be raised further still.

the fact is that there are very powerful people involved in the world of football, this simply won't happen becuase of them and how they will no longer have sway over matches, look at italy and germany all the match fixing, im not saying all matches are fixed but most have an outside influence of some sort, the teams in italy got punished big time but then had their punishments lessoned a great deal, why? becuase finanically it was't good for italian football at at all and even euorpean football, people want to see the italian giants in the champs league, not some team that finished 9th of whatever

i whole heartedly agree with this article. I cant see that the video decisions will slow the game down, i mean a good 5 minutes is normaly wasted after such decisions from the players arguing with the ref anyway. This would sort all of that out and may actually prove to increase the flow of the game. And with regards to dave's conspiracy theory about powerful people running football...remember the truth is out there!

Well I was watching the england game tonight and believe it or not I actually heard motto say something sensible, If you listen in closley behind all the rambelling on and general rubbish he coughs out of his arse. when owen was offside but wasn't lawro (the only idiot worse than motson) said a video replay would have sorted that one out. motto replied with "yeah but would you really want to stop the game for every little incident??" Video replays are only any good for goal line decisions but they wouldn't be able to stop with that would they. It would start with just goal line then fowls in the box then players would dive to stop a counter attack then every offside and throw in would be disputed and so on and so on, football would loose it's fluidness and would und up stop and start like american football or rugby. I for one think it's just part of the game bad ref's have always been part of the game and it's something that happens to every club not just a few. at the end of the day if your teams good enoug