27-02-2016, 01:03
Again it comes back to the ability to have video replay to get the decision right. The game had stopped anyway, it was either diving by Fernando or it was a foul by Dawson, whichever was guilty was going to get a yellow card. A ref in a studio somewhere would have taken about 5 seconds to see it was a foul and the game would have moved on!!
It wasn't until video replays came in for the NFL over here that you started seeing key decisions, mainly for touchdowns or possession after a fumble, being called correctly. It doesn't take long for the ref to make that decision and if you have someone else immediately looking at it it wouldn't hold the game up at all!!
The game has overtaken a lot of refs, its too fast for just one official to make all the key calls, there should be two refs so that every challenge gets a second angle on the pitch there and then. Even if play goes on the second ref would have a mic to talk to the ref all the time and can just say "foul" or whatever and play can be stopped.
It wasn't until video replays came in for the NFL over here that you started seeing key decisions, mainly for touchdowns or possession after a fumble, being called correctly. It doesn't take long for the ref to make that decision and if you have someone else immediately looking at it it wouldn't hold the game up at all!!
The game has overtaken a lot of refs, its too fast for just one official to make all the key calls, there should be two refs so that every challenge gets a second angle on the pitch there and then. Even if play goes on the second ref would have a mic to talk to the ref all the time and can just say "foul" or whatever and play can be stopped.