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Originally Posted by Hoopie1
But people seem to want everything? And you're right, play should be stopped for a free-kick, but in this (hypothetical and probably not that uncommon) situation it hasn't been and someone has gone on to score as a result and one team has been wronged. We have the technology, we're going to be using it but we're drawing the line at using it here.
True you have to draw the line somewhere, and eventually you get to the part where it may be more trouble than its worth. Most people here think that such massive decisions such as a ball crossing the goalline and not counting or a player scoring ten feet offsides are worth taking 30 seconds to get right. Im fine with just reviewing immediate goal/no goal plays since there is not much what-if involved.
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The other issue that you have is with all the pushing and shirt-pulling that goes on both ways at corners and free kicks crossed in, you are going to have multiple fouls in either direction during the goal and also multiple penalty claims, all going on simultaneously. Which way does the fourth official award the decision?
Call on the field should stand unless theres indisputable evidence the other way. This would work in football if refs actually took the word indisputable to heart instead of thinking about what could have happened and overturning calls on maybes.
The point is that there is no excuse for obvious decisions with enormous impact on the game to be wrong when everyone but the ref can see it on replay within 30 seconds.