wow you should read your posts before hitting submit

It'd be way more awesome if they had gloves that would deliver 5,000 volts of electricity to anyone that touched the ball with their hands. Nip that handball problem right in the bud, I say.


And no, I don't care about throwins in the least.

You understand a handball isn't just the hand?

That's why I said it would HELP with the issue of handballs, not solve it entirely. And it's a lot easier to gain an advantage by using your hands than by using your arms. For example, the Henry goal.

wow you should follow your own advice

tbf, there isn't really an issue about handballs, per se.

Yeah I agree but since we are talking about the recent bad non-call, this would be a solution that wouldn't require video replay that disrupts the flow of the game.

What about the idea of a replay official?

Some guy who is a ref who watches the game and his entire job is to review goals (or questionable no goals).

If he sees something that is wrong he buzzes the ref down on the field and they fix it.

I don't even get why they don't do that in American football, other than in the last two minutes of the game.

videos are totally necessary, just for improtant situations as goals penalty kicks and maybe a direct red cards, the "flow of the game" is not a reasonable excuse, since is very usual to wait 1 minute or more because some pussy is pretending a ig injury and after he leaves the field he re enter immediately. it sucks big time to give it all on a game and to lose because a error like that

Hey Albert Haynesworth would fit right in, he does this all the time.

The reasoning of "the game isn't 100% free flowing, let's stop it much more" is the exact opposite direction they should be going in. They should punish those who delay/dive/whine/cry/fake injury, so the game can flow more, not look for more stoppages.

If there's a disputed goal in the first half, they could just play on and review it during halftime. That way it would have zero disruption on the flow of the game, and since so few goals are scored in soccer it wouldn't really change the strategy for either team.

You really should have given up about 5 posts ago.

Oh noes my pristine credibility as a deeply insightful sports poster just took a hit, whatever will I do?

LOL. Probably best you stop now. And isn't this type of 'lol sewcher' type posts meant to be bannable now?

Totally agree. I've already stated that would be a must for me, there has to be retroactive reviews of all games, to nail every diver, and indeed rescind erroneous red and yellow cards, rather than the useless sytem of appeals (or non appeals at UEFA) that we have now.

Yellow card for crying imo

Ok so i was just watching Soccer Saturday and they were talking about an experiment that is taking place in Germany. Basically it goes like this:

After a controversial incident happens, eg - goal/penalty. The ref asks the player involved did he dive/handball, if the player says he didnt dive/handball and video replays after the game show that he has lied then he is severly punished. I know this wont affect the game when it is happening but it may scare players into telling the truth therefore maybe getting the bigger decisions correct and helping the refs out. From what they were saying it has been a successful little experiment, not sure what level of football they are doing this in, in Germany.

This seem feasible?

Yeah i heard about this a while ago and its better than nothing. Would still prefer a proper video challenge system during game in addition to strict post-match tape review to punish the divers etc

yes

Sounds like a waste of time. Just use replay to call the game, if the league wants to give the official the ability to hand out supplemental discipline, or do so themselves after the match, then so be it. This "truth telling contest" idea sounds a little silly and problematic, tbh.

of course they should use video. just like they should definitely take a look at 6 players surrounding the referee and swearing in his face. just like they should probably take a look at the injury time situation.

soccer is so far behind other sports when it comes to innovation.

my point being Fifa are just not going to use video replay so that might well be the next best thing.

what's the injury time situation?