Video Referees in Football (Soccer)

Australie V Italy
Minute 92
0-0
Lucas Niell Produces a brilliant slide tackle in the box
Italian Forward deliberatly makes sure he trips over Neill and dives
Italy get a penalty
Italy Win

How many poeple think that this is unfair???
I believe the introduction of video referees should be made to world class football to stop incidences like this from happening.
Who Agrees???

I WATCHED THAT GAME>...I could NOT believe they won...I even watched it with my dad and when that play happened we were like WHAT! and our mouth dropped....that was really unfair!

Lucas Neill was INSANE to go to ground in the penalty box. It wasn't a brilliant slide tackle because he slid into the path of Grosso which is suicide in any football game, let alone a World Cup eliminator.

Thems is the breaks and he only has himself to blame for the penalty and the elimination of his team, and he knows it.

Did you watch the whole game? Why are you not defending the Materazzi who was sent off? He was not the last man and it was not a tackle from behind, neither was it vicious or potentially injuring to Bresciano. That was a clear case of footballing injustice.

Still, at least Austrailia do not have the plight of not conceding a goal in open play in four games (plus 30 minutes extra time) and still having to go home early like Switzerland.

Negative:

The introduction of a video referee is not the key, good referee-ing in the first place and a more sensible attitude to card system by FIFA is.

Positive:

A system similar to that used in American Football where a challenge to a referee's call could be made by a manager/coach at the expense of a substitution if the original decision is upheld. (3 calls per game)

The refs have been horrible all along this World Cup, just HORRIBLE

I have to say, that game was sad.
But the referees do a great job.
And as a good sport, shudn't complain eh?

Australia is a great team, and so is Italy.

Laterz,
Shirlz.

They have video refs in rugby league and they should have them in football where more is at stake finacially.

Italy should not have had a penalty. The worst is yet to come from them - especially when they're in the quater final. They're the world's best fakers.

Australia should have won the match and sent them packing. period.

The situation is difficult to make a definate decision on, because you can say that the striker shouldnt have to go around the grounded defender, true, he did make a horrible dive, and you can see from his reaction when he won the penalty that it was what he was playing for.

To look at it from the other way, if it was rooney striding through the box and he had to go around the defender in order to reach the ball... talking that extra few seconds canm mean the difference between goal and another defender intercepting.

So the question is that if a defender goes to ground, should the striker have to go around or should he be allowed to go through, due to obstruction rule? this is what makes it so hard to choose the right course of action based on the rule book.

FIFA are all about fair play this world cup, they have basically forced the refs to go by the book and not allowed them any leaway to make an educated decision. due to this we are seeing more cards and very stupid decisions. give the power back to the ref, dont make them go by the book so closley. let them use common sense to ref, not some rule book.

in my opinion its not the refs fault, its FIFA for forcing them to become mechanical refs.

I can't remember the last time I saw an indirect freekick in an international or top flight league match. FIFA have messed around with the rules far too much and (in the premiership at least) use an analyst who watches from the crowd to evaluate the referee's performance.

I believe we should take a few steps back to the late 80's before Paul Elliot sued Liverpool & Dean Saunders for a tackle that ended his career. That was when the yellow card madness started, after all.

No foul should be an automatic yellow card. It is not the type of foul but how bad the foul is.

Diving, on the other hand should be an automatic red card. Sure, it will cause a bit controversy for a while but it will erase the blight of cheating from the game.

i love the fake dive and injury use it all the time when the ref doesn't call it my coach freaks out on the ref. he's gotten a couple thrown out. but man it's not cheating it's strategy the other team can do it as many times as they want to

If diving and faking isn't cheating, why is worthy of a yellow card when caught?

how can you prove it's fake from your video view you have no idea whats actually happening. watching from a sideline is so different from actually being on the field. i never understood why fights broke out till i started playing.