General Football Nonsense

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Nice to know that Blatter is stealing my ideas

Video tech - I want a challenger system like in Tennis; each captain gets 1 challenge per match. That ensures they won't use it for stupid stuff like a shirt-pull on the halfway line and save it for the big decisions they felt were called wrong.

http://www.goonersweb.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=1221

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

I'm not sure I like the idea of challenges. Not in football anyway.

I'd rather there just be a video ref who watches the game, has access to all different camera angles and replays and relays info on to the ref.

I don't like the idea of timeouts that Mourinho suggested either. A bit too... American. Only one step away from a half time show sponsored by Pepsi.

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The challenges idea has been brilliant in Tennis. It doesn't fit so naturally in football where the action is more continuous but it would work in some scenarios, the obvious one being if a penalty is awarded. That's something which could be challenged, reviewed quickly and the right decision made in most cases.
I think it's worth a try.

[WMUG]

The challenges idea has been brilliant in Tennis. It doesn't fit so naturally in football where the action is more continuous but it would work in some scenarios, the obvious one being if a penalty is awarded. That's something which could be challenged, reviewed quickly and the right decision made in most cases.
I think it's worth a try.

Yup. In cases where the game is stopped for a long time regardless. With a penalty call, either it's given and the defending team whine and whinge for 2 minutes to the ref, or it's not given and the attacking team crowd him at the next stoppage.

Same with red cards, goal line decisions (which have thankfully been sorted, obviously) and offsides. That's the kind of thing that ruin games when they're called wrong, and it's stupid to assume that officials will get them right anywhere near 100% of the time with only one look. Especially when literally everyone not in the stadium knows exactly whether it was the decision was the right one 10 seconds after it was made.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

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Blimey

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29689747

Even we haven't managed this yet.

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Blimey

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29689747

Even we haven't managed this yet.

What scored? It looked like they were the living dead against Hull.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29895649

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29895649

<joke about money slipping through his fingers>

Shirts including an England home kit signed by the team, and a bright pink Portsmouth goalkeeper's jersey, are expected to sell for upwards of £30-50 each.

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Qatar cleared of corruption...

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/30031405