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| Week in, week out, the decisions made by the men in black/green/yellow/pink(!) in the Premiership get scrutinised by the 'experts' on television who then decide after 17 replays from 14 different angles, that maybe it was a penalty or the ball was actually 0.01mm over the line when he decided to give no goal. |
| Decisions like that are human error and if people think that video replays or professional referees in situations like that are going to eliminate them then I would start working on world peace next as it just ain't going to happen - like it or not. |
| What I am referring to here are plain and stupid bad decisions. Not the ones you have to scrutinise for hours but the ones that jump up in your face and say "I am a bad decision" |
| Damien Lacey last night, Phillips on Sunday, Nathan Tyson at York. All bad decisions and ones that don't need looking at again, they are just what it says on the tin, a bad 'un. |
| Tyson had his red card overturned and hopefully Lacey will do as well but you have to ask the question - what if it was the first minute of a match? Neither decision has made a difference but what I am saying is that they could have done. Playing with 10 men for 89 minutes is just a little disadvantage (unless you believe John Hollins!) so it could cost us points. |
| I firmly believe that luck does balance itself out over a season. You know, the goal that probably was just over not being given and the off-side that was touch and go going in your favour but these decisions that I refer to here are glaring errors and you wonder what can be done to eradicate them from the game? |
| I fail to see how a professional ref may not make the same mistake although it could be argued that maybe his mind would be fully on the game and not perhaps on something that happened in the 'real' job. |
| Of course, a referee's job is not helped by play acting but most of the crowd can see when someone is play acting or not so why not the officials. Generally, the linesmen down the Vetch this season have been inepet at best and few seem capable of making a decision without the say so of the man with the whistle? |
| Third officials? Don't make me laugh. |
| All I know is that you don't need the 17 replays or 14 cameras to see that they are wrong - just a bit of common sense and maybe that is the most important thing that is missing? |
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