I can see merits in your ideas X, the purple card would be good , but I don’t like the Volumtric Capture ….
IMO , as humble as that is , the game has been made too sterile as it is .
It’s a game , at the end of the day , played by eleven blokes versus eleven blokes , or ladies , arbitrated by a refereee and two linesmen who run the lines and look at right angles to the lines .
And that should be it .
It worked like that for over a hundred years.
Of course mistakes were made , but it was part of the game . It was accepted . It caused a debate on tv and in the pub but was forgotten by Sunday morning .
Until FIFA bolloxed it all up .
FIFA have introduced a monster where players now surround the ref on every incident asking for a review .
Hand to ball ? Ball to hand ? Defender handling it , attacker handling it , one inch here, one inch there , game being held up so a player can lay on the floor behind the wall , spray marks to tell players where to stand , warnings over jostling in the area and then ignoring the jostling when the kick is taken . Delaying a free kick being taken by standing in front of the ball . Allowing a shove in the back , unless a player falls flat on his face and grabs the ball.
It’s utter madness .
I can accept goal line cameras , just .
Everything else FIFA has introduced has absolutely ruined the game .
I refer , again , to Ken Aston , a great referee from my era growing up .
He gave an after dinner speech when I was a referee in the Hampshire FA . He said he was being hounded all over the pitch by a Mr Bremner . He wasn’t having it , he said , so he called him over and said to him that he had seen him make several bad passes , two hopeless shots on goal , failed to mark an opponent on two occasions and he hadn’t complained to him once .
He said they both got on great after that .
That has stayed with me forever , it’s what we need , the human interaction.
Acceptance on both sides that mistakes are made and just get on with it .
The game as it is at the moment is becoming less and less enjoyable to the point I no longer accept and celebrate a goal being scored , a penalty being given , an opponent being sent off , because everything has to go to a judge and jury and be microscopically examined
We are even being told now , that bad tackles should not be viewed in slow motion because that can distort the view , then a crucial offside decision is shown twenty five times in slow motion , same with bloke in the VAR room , mind reading a players intent, with the ball hitting his hand in the area .
Sorry X , I’ve gone all off piste again , as I do .
All I want is VAR scrapped and referees that know what they doing and how to do it . Not too much to ask for , is it ?
