Video replays would kill the game, says Platini
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Uefa president - Platini
Using video replays during games would kill the flow of football matches and end traditional refereeing forever, UEFA president Michel Platini warned on Thursday. However, Platini backed plans for extra goalmouth officials, an idea which the world ruling body FIFA is to experiment with at the Club World Cup in Japan in December.
The head of European soccer's governing body who championed the new initiative when chairing this week's meeting of FIFA's new Strategic Committee made it clear he opposed the use of video evidence during games. "Video referees would destroy football," Platini told Reuters Television in an interview. "If we had this, in 10 years' time, we would no longer have any referees, refereeing would be over forever and we would have to use a video," he said.
"Video is a big problem for me. You would have to stop the game every 10 seconds, for every decision that is questioned. "Football is a human game and the mistakes are human. We need to help solve the mistakes, but we must not lose the human feeling of our sport," Platini added.
Though unknown in soccer, the use of video replays during matches has become well-established in rugby as a way of making key decisions. Platini was in favour of adding match officials to the key areas of the pitch.
"We need to help referees to stop making mistakes and these two extra referees will focus on the two 18-yard boxes, so this will help solve this.
"Ten eyes are certainly better than six."
The tournament in Japan will also be used to continue tests on goal-line technology developed by ball manufacturer adidas, using a chip in the match ball to determine whether shots had crossed the line. -
has a point.
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x2Originally posted by anhydrouscoppersulphate:has a point. -
the guy is an idiot if he thinks video stops the game...
things like disputes over goals (if the ball has crossed the line) or handball in the penalty area can be resolved during the time the players are accosting the referee and challenging the decision anyway...
that part doesn't kill the game??
the time the bloody ref takes to calm the players down, the 4th ref with all the monitors could have come to a decision for him.. heck! they've used it in rugby and it's not killed the game...
his view is of the extreme which the ref can and will have the final say about.. that of the bloody players challenging everything... if it is legit, sure.. if it isn't, the ref can tell the player to go away...
if the ref cannot do that, the ref isn't worth his salt... -
lol, Platini was messing with defenders 20 years ago. now he's messing with the game.
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but goal line errors will be costly..
sure the part about the offsides and stuff will take away the fun in football and controversial moments, but a legitimate goal is sometimes very hard to take.
maybe it will take his france being denied or scored against by some goal line mistakes to rethink his decision. -
it wont.
they neednt allow video viewing on everything. -
seems like UEFA never watch rugby before
video technology are used too but i don't see that it stop the game -
controversy is part of football
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agreed.. but just like when automation was first introduced, everyone fear job losts,some are just resistant to changes..Originally posted by dragg:it wont.
they neednt allow video viewing on everything.