Is it even possible to remove subjectivity from the officiating? Words like ‘negligible’, ‘deliberate’ and ‘dangerous’ currently do a lot of the heavy lifting in the laws of the game, all of which are quantifiable and open to interpretation.

How could realistic technology, either now or in the future, help the officials with the black/white yes/no in/out decisions?

Constructive discussion only please.

  • link_the_fire_skelly@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Yeah I am not sure why we don’t use more indirect free kicks. Unintentional handballs should be indirect free kicks. Take a look at the hand ball in the tottenham lfc UCL final. It’s a handball, but it’s not really interfering with an obvious goal. Make it an indirect free kick so that the team gets the ball back but doesn’t overly punish something a player doesn’t obviously have control over.

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        10 months ago

        Dude had his arm stuck straight out to the side. Gonna be a handball. It would be nice if situations like that can be indirect frees rather than a penalty. Also Spurs were never going to win that game, they needed a miracle to beat Ajax.

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          10 months ago

          Yeah Liverpool was dominant we fluked our way in. I’m not under the illusion we’d have won if the penalty wasn’t given so early but it was very deflating as you can imagine