however the human element is a crucial part of the match. Their judgment is part of a match - did a player dive or get brought down? Was that a 50 - 50 challenge or did the defender hack down the player? The list goes on.
I have stated that I think the addition of another referee on the pitch would vastly
improve the quality of games. I still think FIFA should consider
adding another pair of eyes on the pitch. This does not mean they
cannot also have video for goal line questions. Why is this so
difficult for FIFA? Do they fear the time that might be taken to
review? A
reasonable concern...however the number of times you would need
the video during a season you could probably count on 1 hand for
an entire season. Let us look at a parallel - the NHL. They have
a dedicated video judge to review goals that are in
question...anyone that watches NHL games can probably count on 1
hand how many times in a season they have seen this enacted. So
for footie, that has a much lower goals per game than hockey you
would have that many fewer situations. What about rugby, they use
video for tries as well...and clearly it works well and is not a
huge issue with regards to the time increase for the
matches.
FIFA needs to get its collective heads out of their rear ends and
wake up to the 21st century. Video would have rectified the "Hand
of Frog" or the terrible blunder Roy Carroll made for Manchester
United....or maybe the phantom goal in 1966 might have been
overturned. Isn't the ability to correct these problems more
important than having to "accept such errors?"
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