by Sutekh »
17 Jun 2018 08:03
Utterly fail to see point of this ridiculous technology. All it does is confuse people with FIFA telling officials not to flag for any doubtful offsides and things happening with the ref making his “instant decision” and play continuing. Then the ref stops play (which I didn’t think they were meant to do) draws a box in the air and goes to at a screen containing 9 different camera angles all of which usually show that the “incident” in question could be interpreted as an “offence” or not an “offence”.
So, in essence, rather than the ref making an instant decision rightly or wrongly, he now gets to stop play, think about it and then make a decision rightly or wrongly. Therefore all that’s happened is the game gets stopped unnecessarily while it takes longer to establish the same controversial decisions that we’d all have if this technology wasn’t there.
What next with this I wonder? Perhaps asking refs to take more time and discuss with a panel of experts in the stands? Well at least that will enable FIFA to better sell the game to US broadcasters as they’ll at last be able to squeeze ad breaks in.