Retrospective action

[royalblue66]

See the boy Reither at Fulham has ended up with a 3 match ban after his stamp on Saturday.

Puzzling then that absolutely nothing is being said about Soldado's elbow on Jagielka. Clear violent conduct and should be a 3 match ban.

The ref did call Soldado over and had a word with him, never booked him so I assume that's it.

 

[Groucho]

I don't get why they can't decide there and then. I mean we expect a ref to make a split second decision, why can't we have video refs doing things there and then?

As fans, you want to see the right decision made don't you? If it's a decision about a goal then you go live to the video ref who can decide whilst play is paused. I suspect most of that could occur in the time usually taken complaining to the ref anyway.

If it's an off the ball type incident that the ref missed, the video ref could look it over and if he thinks something needs doing, he lets the ref know and at the next break in play, it's dealt with. That's not really any different to playing the advantage rule at the moment, where a ref will go back and book a player after the advantage has ended.

Just seems football tries to make half arsed work arounds that do little but over complicate matters.

This is why I'm with Bruce, and wouldn't mind a video-refereeing trial, adjudicated by the 4th official.

 

[Azzurri]

See the boy Reither at Fulham has ended up with a 3 match ban after his stamp on Saturday.

Puzzling then that absolutely nothing is being said about Soldado's elbow on Jagielka. Clear violent conduct and should be a 3 match ban.

Doing my head in, that.

Could have easily broken a rib, but it's on a player from outside the top 4 who doesn't play for Liverpool or Spurs so who's arsed, eh?

 

[bluejock]

The ref did call Soldado over and had a word with him, never booked him so I assume that's it.

UI thought that retrospective action was supposed to be for cases where the referee might have dealt with the situation on the field but video evidence shows that it was worthy of more serious punishment, in light of the Torres booking for scratching Vertonghen's face though.

 

[bluejock]

Doing my head in, that.

Could have easily broken a rib, but it's on a player from outside the top 4 who doesn't play for Liverpool or Spurs so who's arsed, eh?

Exactly. We could then have been without our best defender for a couple of months in a really crucial period in the season.

 

[riddick]

I don't get why they can't decide there and then. I mean we expect a ref to make a split second decision, why can't we have video refs doing things there and then?

As fans, you want to see the right decision made don't you? If it's a decision about a goal then you go live to the video ref who can decide whilst play is paused. I suspect most of that could occur in the time usually taken complaining to the ref anyway.

If it's an off the ball type incident that the ref missed, the video ref could look it over and if he thinks something needs doing, he lets the ref know and at the next break in play, it's dealt with. That's not really any different to playing the advantage rule at the moment, where a ref will go back and book a player after the advantage has ended.

Just seems football tries to make half arsed work arounds that do little but over complicate matters.

Confuses me to no end. You're telling me sometime couldn't tell the ref that Suarez but ivanovich before the end of the match? But then he goes ahead and scores at the end, changing the outcome of a game. It's like football dots everything in their power to not be better.

Definitely think retrospective action should also happen for divers.

 

[Librarian]

You can't mess with the past, it makes a balls of the space-time continuum and Biff'll end up ridin' your mother