As a huge Rugby league fan, I cannot believe that football hasn't woken up yet, especially in a sport where the referee is always to blame when your team loses.
I mean in rugby we just get on with a bad call, players don't argue with the referee at all, managers rarely question them, yet we still have a system in place to make sure the right decision is made. Trust me, it is worth the 30 seconds it takes (it would take less in football because there will be no grey areas, it's either over the line or not) to get the right decision, especially when so much money is riding on the outcome.
One bad thing about the video referee in rugby is that the video referee is only at live televised games. So Sunday 3pm kick offs do not have the video ref there, and the on field ref is on his own. The problem here being is that the big teams are on tele a lot more than the small ones, and therefore have the benefit (or perhaps the disadvantage) of having the Video Ref for most of their games so tries that would be awareded at 3pm are not awarded at 8pm and vice versa, so some fans reckon the league is played at a disadvantage.
I'd guess in football they would be at every ground in the premiership, but what about the football league, at what level will the FA decide that the teams are too sh*t to warrant the bother?
One thing is clear to me though, at big tournaments where every game is televised live such as the World Cup, the Euros, the Africa Cup of Nations, COPA America etc... there is no reason or excuse for teams to not be awarded a goal if they score. Certainly not in 2011 anyway.
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