Goal Line Technology

well said don

too busy to spell and grammar check everything I write on a footy site, I'm working.

anti racism from a scot

"too busy to spell and grammar check everything I write on a footy site, I'm working."

No-one criticised your spelling or your grammar.

"anti racism from a scot"

Care to explain what you mean by that?

OP is not an anti-english rant. Just highlighting that this only appears to have come about because of the coverage given to Lampard's disallowed goal. If it had been Switzerland or Algeria, we would have barely heard a thing about it. As for Scotland, the scenario you paint is unlikely to ever happen as we have not been close to qualifying for years now.

I think this was always going to happen after a blantant goal line decision went wrong in a world cup game.

The fact is there should be some sort of technology that can help in those type of situations.

The scots are know for their anti english bile they spout, haven't u heard.

"The scots are know (sic) for their anti english bile they spout, haven't u heard." - he said, racistly.

Slapping a negative stereotype onto an entire nation of people - again, anti-racism, you're doing it wrong.
The only offensive statments in this thread have been from english posters against Scottish people. Kind of belies your point.

Don get off your high horse mate, read the article again and see if you can see the subtle english digs?

But then again who am i kidding
you won't will you?

Back to goal line technology I think its a good idea, some of these incidents can would completley change games if seen.

Don - talking of the microchip in the ball, it would be so easy to put a microchip on players shirts or shorts and immediately eliminate all the controversy.

Admittedly the law currently states "any ball playing part" but that is a minor factor I think if it would mean we'd have offside decisions given correctly all the time!

"Don get off your high horse mate, read the article again and see if you can see the subtle english digs?
But then again who am i kidding
you won't will you?"

Calling other people out on making poor arguments and hypocritical, offensive comments is not getting on a high horse.

Replace the word "english" in th OP with any other nationality and read it again. Does it still sound like a dig, mate? I think it's more likely you are on these boards to try and find something to get offended by. Your country is not the only one which has been affected by this issue.

MrMortimer, I'm not convinced it's a particularly workable system though. Even if the technology works (it's a lot more complicated than goal line technology), I imagine it could be expensive, especially considering the financial situation clubs in Scotland are in. Then there's the issue of who controls it. Do we need a fifth official? Does the referee get a beep in his ear if they are offside? What if they are not involved with the move, or if the referee thinks it's a new phase?
Offside is a complex rule; I don't think technology is the answer.

Besides, a little bit of controversy is a good thing IMO.

West coast - admittedly the finances in the SPL may make in impractical at the moment, but certainly in the EPL and Internationals it would be feasable.

I don't think actually it is that complicated a rule... and if anything the technology could help simplify it. The officials could concentrate entirely on who was interfering rather than the linesman trying to stay in line and see all the way across the pitch.

The entire "on the right side of the linesman" examples would be gone, as would the human error aspect of it that occurs when the ball is kicked from a great distance away - and the linesman's look across the defence is a good deal after the ball was kicked.

I hadn't thoiught of the details that much to be honest... it may require a fifth official.

I have to say I didn't have a clue about the offside rule in Ice Hockey until I played NHL on the Megadrive. When the little referee would come up in the corner of the screen I knew someone was offside - a system like that with an official pitchside may work.

Controversy is good - it creates talking points! And gives you the opportunity to make excuses if you lose