Why There Should Be No Video Referee

Have you ever wondered why the linesmen at soccer matches are not allowed to run the entire length of the field and must stop halfway?

The day you understand why, you will also understand why FIFA will never introduce the video referee and why real fans of the game are also against it and will stop coming to the games if it should ever happen.

The game as it is known in its modern version is designed so that the left hand side of the goal post is always left “Unrefereed” (unless the ref happens to get there in time which he usually never does)

This is to allow certain forms of “Cheating”, no kidding, this is true and only those who are real Fanatics understand it.

You see the game is meant to resemble WAR but without weapons or harm coming to the players, as we know in a real war anything goes, so it is with the left hand side of the goal post, anything goes, it is where most of the fouls and cheats occur.

Here is a diagram to show you how a game of soccer is meant to be refereed, if all games were refereed in this manner then there would never be a need for a video referee.

The green lines represents the way a referee should run through out the game, the red lines represent how far the linesmen are allowed to run; this leaves very little room for fouls or cheats not to be seen as between him and the two linesmen they cover the entire view of the field.

It is when the ref does not follow the green line that players are given the chance to cheat or make unseen fouls such as tugging shirts, hand balls etc.

The fact that mistakes are made, in my opinion reflect only on the bad work of the referees, they do not reflect the need for further action or for changes to be made.

In soccer it is normal and the done thing to cheat as long as the Ref don’t catch you. IT IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE GAME and all players do it. Anyone says they don’t might be a player but they don’t really play the game.

the introduction of a video referee, in my opinion, would change not only the way the game is played and therefore its character but also the unpredictability of all outcomes, it is this unpredictability that makes the game so great.

That’s the way the game is, that’s the way real fanatics want it and that’s the way it will stay. If FIFA ever introduces the video ref it would most likely lose billions in ticket income as well as betting outcomes around the world and not only that it is more than likely that new associations will be formed to get rid of FIFA, associations FIFA needs in order to survive..

In fact virtually every South American nation will walk out on FIFA if it ever does and would most likely re-form the World Cup, FIFA would lose it and without the South Americans there can be no World Cup, we own its greatest players.

This is the reason why FIFA resists all forms of changes to the game introducing new rules very rarely and only under severe pressure.

Want a proper change?

Place a ref on either goal post, that’s all that is required.

If a video ref were to be allowed, the game would become almost boring as the outcome will most certainly be know before the game is even played, without the ability to “cheat” just that little bit, the weaker teams would always fall pray to the stronger, better trained, cashed up teams or nations and this would make the game far too predictable.

It simply wouldn’t work, it would kill the Beautiful Game.

And this is why the powerful, rich nations want the video ref introduced, they hate losing, they don’t like it and they want to control all the games and all the money it generates

Hopefully they never will.