COS Contributor Retryboy discusses the issue of Video Replays and the FIFA presidents rather short sighted view on a long running footballing debate.
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Sepp Blatter has re-iterated again that whilst he remains FIFA president video replays will not be used saying “Please do not insist on the technology, the day that the referee takes 2 captains aside to study monitors and see if something is inside the box or outside is the day the spectators will say no, we are not coming to the game.”
Every week we see big games won and lost by wrong decisions, the stakes are so high that players are prepared to do anything necessary to win for their club or country including taking a tumble. This is so widespread it has become a plague on the ‘beautiful game’ and poor decisions are accepted with a shrug of the shoulders. Blatter thinks that if we don’t have any contentious decisions there will be no talking points. Well maybe Mr Blatter we could talk about the quality of game, the skill on display instead of the man with the whistle.
We aren’t talking about scrutinising every decision or calling the captains over to watch monitors, that is just the swiss man painting a distorted picture that he feels will end the debate once and for all. In the time players take celebrating a goal or arguing over a penalty another official could have watched a replay from a few angles and when the referee asks the simple question “is there any obvious reason why I shouldn’t award the goal/penalty” he would have a response in seconds over the intercom, this is after all a day and age where we can record, pause and rewind live TV in our own living rooms I am certain the governing bodies with all of their resources could put something in place.
Would Henry have attempted his Michael Jordan basketball dribble if he knew the quick check would happen? Would never have happened and if it did he would have owned up to it before the ball hit the back of the net rather than face the embarrassment and card. Would players be tumbling if they knew they would be caught and booked? Again I think the answer is no.
The conspiracy theorists out there would go as far as to say that the reason for not introducing video replays is much more sinister involving match fixing or at least helping hands to the big name teams and countries. It certainly does seem that way sometimes. This may be going too far but at the very least it allows the fortunes of nations, the destiny of silverware, the careers of managers and players and whether a team is relegated in the hands of one man all too often these decisions are wrong.
One thing you can guarantee is when we tune in to match of the day tomorrow night one or more of the games will have been decided by an avoidable wrong decision.
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anonymous - December 22nd, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Yep, fully agree with Blatter..
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anonymous - December 22nd, 2009 at 1:57 pm
i see COS are letting any mug write for them these days
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anonymous - December 22nd, 2009 at 2:41 pm
The FIFA dinosaur stills rules the terrain. Video replays using the 4th official as evaluator would be fast,efficient and, as the article accurately points out, totally unobtrusive to the game. I have officiated professional matches and international competitions and can say that 99.999% of officials at this level try and officiate in a fair and firm manner but the game has begun to surpass their combined abilities to see what is happening. Platini tried out the 5 on-field officials and it was a relative success but it is cumbersome and open to potential disagreements,etc. The video replay leaves the referee totally in charge but with an additional tool in his armoury…one that adds extra “eyes” to his repetoire.
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anonymous - December 22nd, 2009 at 2:47 pm
It will happen sooner or later. No doubt about that. It’s just a question of when. Video technology can be used to good effect without adversely impacting the game, in fact it would speed the game up because you wouldn’t have to wait while the referee deals with a melle of 10 man utd or Arsenal players surounding him every time he gives a decision they don’t like. All you nay-sayers would still have no-subs, no offsides and keepers holding on to the ball for 85 minutes.
There is no need to stop the game – refs can simply be on a receive only comms channel with 4th and 5th officials (which most of them already are), choosing to take their advice or not.
The technology and infrastructure to assist the referee is already here, they just need to give the refree a green light to use it as and when he/she sees fit.
As I say, it will happen. AND IN FACT IT ALREADY HAS HAPPENED – in the last FIFA world cup final when the referee sent off Zidane on advice received from somebody on his intercom. So stop being a power mad idiot blatter:-
“Your old road is rapidly ageing,
please get out of the new one
if you can’t lend a hand
for the times they are a-changing ”
(Dylan)
COYS
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anonymous - December 22nd, 2009 at 4:06 pm
with replays blatter would not be in a position to influence the officials as he currently does.
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...samlfc.... - December 22nd, 2009 at 4:56 pm
He talks about until he leaves it won’t happen….well he better leave as he i causing the beautiful game turn into something which clearly isn’t.
at the world cup i want France to get knocked out by a handball or something just so i can see what that fatass do next.
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RyanO - December 23rd, 2009 at 12:04 am
Blatter should fucking piss off, he makes a mockery of football.
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Retryboy - December 23rd, 2009 at 7:25 am
Good to hear an official welcoming it. They are after all facing an impossible task the game has changed i know the tempo has increased but i mean more that they have so many directives to implement and whereas in years past a good, honest ball then man tackle wouldn’t be punished, feet could be raised using common sense as to when it was done dangerously. The common sense element has been taken away from the ref and some of their decisions now seem governed by these directives. For example it seems now refs would rather send a player off for a tackle that might have been one of the outlawed type than miss one, think that is down to another ridiculous rule where if a referee has seen the incident and dealt with it there can be no retrospective punishment to the player. The offside rule has always been an impossible task you physically cannot look at when a ball is played and along the line at the same time but they have just confused the rule totally with the interfering with play debate. I honestly think the last rule that had any benefit to the game that was introduced was the backpass rule and i am sure that was a long time before Blatter. As was rightly stated before it is an impossible task in the middle so why deny the tools that technology offer to let the referee do his job.
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...samlfc.... - December 23rd, 2009 at 9:33 am
Don’t worry Retryboyo once France get cheated out of the world cup or any big match Blatter will want a video ref or something along them lines……..i guarentee it.
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anonymous - December 23rd, 2009 at 11:12 am
Are FIFA not embarressed to have such an idiot in charge, does not say much for all of them.
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Poor Spuds - December 23rd, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Well he’s partly correct (Apparently for t 1st time in his life)
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We do need replays but it should be used to punish fakers n cheats after t game…
T 4th official should hav a good look at all t untoward incidents after t match n appropriate actions should be taken against all offenders freely n fairly irrespective of t outcome of t dive or tackle made…nobody should be let off t hook scot free… cuz doin so wil only encourage them to commit more such mistakes… also t replays should be shown as highlights in some kind of a workshop to all refs so that they can minimize their errors (or rather zero in on players who r habitual offenders
Usin replays in t course of t game aint suggestible though… like blatter puts it…
It wud be t most righteous thing to do but it wud lengthen t game by another 30 mins which is definitely not advisable….
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anonymous - April 18th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Football is under the control of Asian betting companies which may sometimes require match fixing. This would be difficult if technology and video replays were allowed.
A lot has already been said about corruption in FIFA and other regional football authorities. That is why it will be difficult for Blatter to loosen control of the gravy train.
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Mickeyfinn1983 - April 18th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Great article Retryboy,
I fully agree that Video Technology must be used in football. I have had many discussions about this on other forums and i have always maintained that if it was to be introduced, any use of the video would have to be directed and called upon by the referee, not the players.
I don’t want it to end up a tactic used by clubs – Could you imagine Alex Ferguson if he had the option to call a video replay?
If the ref calls a video replay, it’s still maintains the authority of the game in the officials hands.
I would like Football to become in that sense like Rugby, Ref is the man, nobody bad mouths him, and every decision is in his hands, not the players, managers, coaches, etc.
I also think they should introduce a sin-bin like in Rugby for players who show dissent
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anonymous - June 27th, 2010 at 11:46 am
Everybody hates Sepp Blatter, everybody hates FIFA, for their decisions, then why does everybody watch the world cup every four years? Because everybody wants to see their team win. When are our teams going to win from a fair game? When Sepp Blatter and FIFA get off their dinosaurs and start using video refereeing.
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anonymous - June 27th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
People may say it’s paranoia to think the reason for the continued embargo on video technology, is match fixing. But it wouldnt delay a game, a decision would only take a couple of seconds, and we would be free to appreciate the game rather than the awful decisions of referee’s.
Thinking about it, if it would eliminate mistakes….and it would! and if it wouldnt hold up games…which it wouldnt!
Then the only plausible reason is that some people have a vested interest in being able to say “oops sorry, the decision was wrong, but referee decisions cannot be changed, so the result stands”
It would be handy for them to tell a referee they wanted a certain team to win, and a few crucial decisions later that’s the result they get. Then it’s all put down to the ref having a bad day, rather than match fixing.
When the stakes are so high, when a single decision can promote or relegate a club, when it can send a team through to the next round or crashing out, when it can give a team a trophy or deny them what’s rightfully theirs…….WE MUST HAVE TECHNOLOGY USED IN FOOTBALL GAMES!!!!!!
Blatter is a fucking idiot at best, and in my personal view, corrupt at worst!
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anonymous - June 27th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
First: thanks for the opportunity to get this off my chest. A few weeks ago during a baseball game in which a record for a perfect game was up for grabs it was quickly admitted BY ALL CONCERNED that the runner was out at first base. The umpire then apologized for his initially mistaken call. This was a combination of technology and good sportsmanship.
It is far past time for soccer to do the same. I was so angry when England’s goal against Germany was ignored that I turned off the TV vowing never again to watch a game until goal-line technology is put in place. This is not the first time this happened; it isn’t even the tenth.
Technology, well-regulated, would also put an end to all that crap about Maradona’s hand of God. Either we’ve got a superb sport here (which I played as a youth, coached, and refereed) or we’ve got a brawl watched over by myopic pedants.
Furthermore, is anyone out there going to tell me that the German goalkeeper did not know that the ball was well across the goal line when he grabbed it? Oh, please!! What was stopping him from doing what was done in that baseball game? It would sound something like this: “I’m sorry, mein herren, and it really hurts to say it, but that really was a goal.”
Lastly, and would you believe it, as I write this email, my wife, who is watching the Argentina – Mexico game, has just told me of yet one more similar incident!!
Thanks again. I feel better already
Louis Wynne
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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anonymous - June 29th, 2010 at 6:07 pm
no corruption = video replay
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