FIFA in a desperate need of implementing video review
by Doog Correia on Jun 27, 2010 8:57 AM PDT
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It's hard to imagine despite the numerous errors made by officials during the course of important games in major soccer tournaments such as the World Cup, that FIFA continues to do nothing about.
Match fixing involving teams and referees which continues to plague a number of European leagues, is an issue FIFA has been regularly addressing. But yet when we get to major tournaments such as the World Cup & European Championship, the presence of bad officiating is still quite clear.
Where is the integrity of the game heading? Certainly not upward, and unless FIFA begin considering adding an extra official and video review to their officiating structure the sport will continue to be under a huge microscope of criticism..
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There was, unsurprisingly, a good deal of debate about the goal-that-wasn’t-even-though-it-was at the halftime of Germany-England in the Finnish TV broadcast. The host and both visitors agreed unanimously that video review has to be implemented at this level – certainly for goals, potentially for red cards and perhaps for the occasions when a player is trying to draw a foul. They called up an experienced Finnish soccer referee who acknowledged the problem but predicted the video review will not be implemented for a long time – it’s a rather conservative sport and the worldwide community is a slow one to make any changes.
What really stuck in my ear was one of the arguments the referees (as a body) had raised against the use of video review: it should not be used because the players don’t have any aids either.
If the thinking is stuck at this level, we will keep seeing officiating like this for years to come.
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Wow.
What really stuck in my ear was one of the arguments the referees (as a body) had raised against the use of video review: it should not be used because the players don’t have any aids either.
That is a ridiculous and ludicrous argument. Referees are not the people competing. Their job is to make the game fair as possible, to ensure that players follow the rule. This is like saying that the police cannot use technology that criminals can’t use. We want law enforcement to use the best technology to enforce the laws so that citizens don’t break them. Likewise, we want officiating in soccer to use the best technology to enforce the rules of the game so that players don’t break them!
- MV
Just confine...
replay to goals. Replay would be finished by the time goal celebrations ended. Have the fourth or a fifth official review it right away and make the decision.
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by Esteban d' Amur on Jun 28, 2010 10:48 AM PDT reply actions
Instant Replays?
Now, I truly want to keep the game fluid as much as possible, but the beautiful game, in my opinion, loses its beauty when an unfair call or lack of a call is made (USA’s disallowed third goal against Slovenia, Argentina’s allowed goal against Mexico, for example). Hence, fluidity and fairness must reach a compromise. How?
Well, the best idea I can think of is the challenge idea (from the NFL). Each team can challenge the referees only one time during a game and force a review based on an instant replay. But that’s it. So the cost to the game’s fluidity isn’t much (a maximum of two possible instant replay reviews is not bad at all), but it helps with the fairness of the game sooooo much.
Oh, and use goal-line technology, which doesn’t hinder fluidity at all. In fact, if both goal-line technology and the one-challenge rule are implemented together, the goal-line technology can prevent challenges regarding goal line disputes from interrupting the game in the first place.
- MV
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