Perryashburtongroves wrote:Glad to hear the linesman getting slagged to fuck by Souness and Redknapp- fucking attrocious decision, where the fuck do they get these useless, incompetent "assistants" from, fucking useless bastards the fucking lot of them (I've still not recovered from a linesman advising a ref that a foul we committed outside the box against liverpool was "definitely a penalty"). Useless c**ts, the fucking lot of them. Refs are shite, but linesman are a fucking breed apart
And what was all that nonsense you had at Liverpool the other year when the ref pretended he gave a free kick and let Torres run off and score. They are paid to do one thing and yet refs and linesmen manage to fuck their jobs up so much.
Yep, this is the problem, decisions like this are affecting every club. Sunderland have been at the hands of dreadful decisions like the ones mentioned, Arsenal the same, and we all (occasionally!) get the odd one going our way. The thing is there is just no consistency, I am utterly convinced that with many close off side decisions, and many "is it over the line" decisions, the linesmen literally guess.
When it comes to video technology for goal line decisions, i dont even think it would delay games. Take the spurs game yesterday, by the time Sky had shown the replay which proved the ball wasnt in, the linesman and ref were still discussing whether to give a goal. I do agree with those that say it shouldnt be introduced in the PL if it isnt in the other professional leagues like, but that is a separate debate.
Having said that, even with goal line technology, we will still get these incompetent bastards missing hand balls etc unless they bring in video technology for everything. I thought when refs went professional we were told itd (somehow) make them better at their jobs. It hasnt. They might be a bit fitter, but they are still getting many, many big decisions wrong, they're just no doubt being paid a lot more money to get it wrong now, great.
Oh well, still all to play for in this one like, been a decent game.
Edit: cracking goal!!!