Ok, so after this last weekend of FIFA World Cup Action, we can all agree that the Ref’s are no longer equipped for the pace of modern day soccer. If you go back to the vast number of decisions during this World Cup that went the wrong way after seeing the replay…I think we can all agree that TV Ref’s & Goal Line Technology needs to be implemented into competitive soccer: World Cups, The Euro, Champions League Knock out, Africa Cup of Nations etc etc. This may be a bit of a rant … but bear with me here…

IF you are British, you will still be going on about Lampard’s attempt that was disallowed, in between slurring your words and recovering from drowning your sorrows. It was clearly a GOAL (In any case the Germans were better…) and yet ANOTHER POOR judgement call by the match officials lead to a massive change / outcome in a cracker of a match. Who knows what would have happened if the game had gone to 2-2… (oooh the debate!)

But thats not the only poor decision that lead to a goal being disallowed / scored this World Cup. There was:

Donovan’s attempt against Algeria
Tevez’s first goal against Mexico (clearly offside)
Henri’s Hand of Frog in the Qualifiers
Nederlands over Slovakia
Amongst many more…

This is what Sepp reckons ” Goal Line Technology and TV replays will undermine the credibility of the active match officials…We didn’t say you could have a zero-fault system in the World Cup. Additional assistants behind each goal-line could happen in 2014 to make sure these kind of things are not happening in refereeing.

It doesn’t mean the use of video, that is definitely not on the table today, but one thing we are discussing is two additional assistants to support referees to make decision-making easier and to have more eyes helping him to make such decisions. No matter which technology is applied, at the end of the day a decision will have to be taken by a human being.

This being the case, why remove the responsibility from the referee to give it to someone else?

It is often the case that, even after a slow-motion replay, 10 different experts will have 10 different opinions on what the decision should have been.

Fans love to debate any given incident in a game. It is part of the human nature of our sport.