Because you typed then you'd have had to accept the Hazard / Lucas tangle as also being worth a spot kick.. Now as saint has already confirmed the collision between Hazard and Lucas was engineered by Hazard and therefore not in any way being worthy of a spot kick. So before you start issuing orders and casting doubt about their literacy levels you should pay more heed to your cognitive skills (or the lack of them!) End of this argument
Me making an error of judgement on an incident during a game, is not the same thing as being called out by someone on a forum who patently hasn't even been arsed to read the thread properly
It was not a natural position for him to be in. Unless he had the biggest piles known to man, nobody walks, yet alone runs with legs spread-eagled like that. The fact that that he was going down before Lucas even made contact suggests that he spread his legs to make contact.
To be fair every time I see Howard Plebs refereeing I get a knotted stomach... He was awful and every time I have seen him he drops at least two clangers a game and means you lot seem to like hash tags.. #howardwebbsfookinguselessandshouldbeshotlol
The trouble is that failing to give an obvious decision is as much incompetence as is making the wrong call.
The problem with refereeing as I see it is the level of the game's advanced far beyond the level of refereeing. I agree with saint, non-decisions show not just incompetence but lack of confidence in your ability. When that starts to happen you need to ask yourself what you're doing still refereeing.
Re; offside decisions. Why can't technology be used for these decisions? Same with throw-ins, corners/goalkicks too? The has a chip in it already for the goal line technology, surely technology to determine a ball going over one line can be used on other lines? For the offside, each player could be required to have a chip in theirs boots or something? Means the linesman can be true assists rather than watching for offside. Anything to make things easier / more accurate.
wouldnt they need chips on all parts of their body though, don't think its just the foot that can be offside is it?
That's physically impossible, as the critical point is the moment the team mate kicks the ball towards him
They just need another official with tv access pitchside. The tv instant replays can be relayed to the ref via the same earpiece they use already.
Everyone from MOTD pundits to Graham Poll (!) has said Webb had a shocker yesterday. Only those with tribal rivalries against ours would try to justify it. The game really needs to look at the standard of refereeing because if he's the best then we're in the **** because he's nowhere near good enough to manage such a crucial game with fairness and authority. I do think that the officials' job is made harder by players cheating and play-acting and I would support any campaign to be tougher on that and weed it out. If retrospective punishment of players regardless of whether the ref saw and acted upon it were introduced and some sort of meaningful punishment against the club employed I think the situation could be improved.
But if the fourth official watching the TV replays pitchside is Webb we'll be back to square one in no time.
Sorry, didn't realise there was no impact, vibration or pressure on the ball when its kicked, my bad In today's technology, anything is possible.
lol, so how would the technology know when to trigger the offside given that the ball has an infinite number movements? It's taken them 20 years to master goal line technology, what you're suggesting in hugely complex due to the number of variables. A simple replay with a 5th official sat in the stands would be the way to go ffs.
Not disagreeing with you, but what happens in the case of Sterling vs City? Given offside when he clearly wasn't, (a decision that could arguably have cost us three points) the video ref can't overrule the lino in real time so how are we to regain the advantage we should have had?
