Referalls

[Dave Cooper please]

We now have goal line technology, so how about the next step?

Each manager gets one referral per game,so Lambert could have used it to refer Gabby's sending off, it would have taken about 30 seconds for a video ref to decide that it was bollocks.
 One per game per side, you don't get another one even if you get it right, would add no more time onto the game than a sub slouching off in injury time.

[cdbearsfan]

Don't agree with the rule that you only get one even if you get it right. Say we'd got the Gabby decision overturned then, five minutes later, they get a ludicrous penalty and we're not allowed to challenge because we're effectively punished for the referee's earlier incompetence?

I'd be up for one, or maybe two, referrals/challenges per half... you get them back if you're proved correct.

Try it out in some Mickey Mouse pre-season tournament to get the rule right.

[pauliewalnuts]

No, none of that bollocks.

[Toronto Villa]

It works ok in stop/start sports like NFL or baseball. Not football.

[leylandalbion]

part of the fun/debate is having the decisions.  it should never lose that. Sky has took so much from the game - don't let them make the rules

[pauliewalnuts]

part of the fun/debate is having the decisions.  it should never lose that. Sky has took so much from the game - don't let them make the rules

I agree with that, there's a point at which the unpredictability becomes part of the attraction.

[Ads]

Couldn't they just stream replays to his watch?

[PeterWithesShin]

Give him Google glasses that can instantly replay the incident for him.

[paul_e]

I don't like referrals but in a situation like today would a 4th official watching it on a replay and buzzing the ref to change the decision have any effect on how long the game was stopped for? When you consider all the arguing and pleading that follows one that is so clearly wrong I doubt it would.  I also love, just once, for a ref to come on TV and say "I've watched it back and I got it wrong, I've withdrawn the card from my report". Won't happen though because for some reason football seems to think that hiding behind a "refs decision is final" is a better idea.

[jcsutv]

You never replay the game or get any points back with rescinded cards, so anything is better than what we have now.

[DeKuip]

Wrong decisions by players, managers, referees and linesmen are all part of the game.
If they all got it right every time it might even become boring.

[Villafirst]

Good idea. They have full technology in cricket, tennis etc., so why not Football? It wouldn't happen that often in a match - one challenge per side should be brought in.

[brian green]

I watch a lot more rugby these days than I used to because it is free in BT Sport. That is a great game creaking under the overload of video replays and a law book the size and complexity of War and Peace.  Last week Brown of Quins scored a great, brave try that put his side back in terms in a game they lost. The French referee gave the try then bottled it and called for a video replay. It revealed after several minutes a tiny knock on of an inch or two off the forearm of a Quins player on the ground. The referee changed the call and spent much if the rest of the game apologising to the Quins players. It turned the game, it spoiled the game. It is just what we don't want in football.
I can wait for the whole game to be robotized.

[Steve67]

Review it all after the game. A panel of ex-players to rule on cards, dives, dubious goals etc.

[itbrvilla]

I'd like to see a referee as pundit to get their take on refereeing decisions.