"The Football League is to introduce the use of âVanishing Sprayâ by referees into its competitions from 1st January 2015 following a successful trial in the early rounds of this season's Johnstone's Paint Trophy. Having received positive feedback from clubs, referees and supporters, the League has instructed the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) to begin using the product in all matches played in the Football League, Capital One Cup and Johnstone's Paint Trophy from the mid-point of the current campaign." Not saying I disagree with it's introduction in principle. However, it will be another reason for the overly pedantic Championship refs to ponce around, and waste even more time.
In theory, it should reduce some of the ponceing. At least it should remove the measuring and re-measuring and remeasuring and stopping play to move the wall back and remeasuring and... you get the picture. Sadly I suspect a poor referee is a poor referee and no amount of vanishing spray will help that.
There could be another approach to the dismal refereeing whereby the team captains either individually or in union, spray the referee and he disappears. Captain or captain do have to write a post match report giving reason for their action. Sound as a pound.
