by parky »
30 Sep 2012 11:26
This could work in two different ways, firstly having all moments when a controversial goal has been scored ie there is some element of doubt in the referees mind as to whether a goal has been scored or not the referee immediately stops the game and asks for a review possibly with only a number of questions such as 'Is there any reason I cannot award a goal?' Thus removing any possibility of a counter attack, but this has to be the one negative that will only happen in a handful of cases and wont matter compared to justice being done. Take yesterday for instance, the referee isn't 100% as an element of doubt has been placed in his head by Karacan who protested immediately he asks pauses as the replay is shown and then Reading are awarded a free kick. This ruling has to be that there must be clear evidence to overturn a decision as is the case with any other sport so you cant have people still arguing afterwards, if it isn't clear on the video it stays with the referee.
Secondly you give each team two reviews for the course of a game, which can only be used to change a decision and must be asked for immediately if you're wrong you lose one of your challenges, this disadvantage of this is I'm not sure how it can work in open play. The advantages are that clubs would have access to the footage upstairs as nobody would want to waste a challenge somebody would be watching a feeding to the manager whether they should challenge. Also this is stronger in terms of goals missed if two referees are adamant that a decision is correct they may not wish to review it such as could have been the case yesterday, Mcdermott would have had Hammond or Gibbs possibly watching upstairs who would know before the kick off it wasn't a goal and would challenge.
With both of these we need to define what we are reviewing, if this is simply goals and penalties which more times than not lead to goals then either can work as there is more likely than not an easy breakdown in play when this occurs. If it leads to every decision I will concede it will lead to stop start game which nobody wants however a lot of games pass without controversial incident and this is simply about removing those moments from the game so we aren't cost points which could cost us safety and whole lot of money.
Discuss?