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Originally Posted by valo403
You can review plenty of judgment calls in the NFL, did a knee touch the ground before the ball was released is just as much a judgment call as whether a player made contact on a tackle in the box, and both are equally subject to confirmation over reversal by review.
You'd have to setup a challenge type system IMO, and I don't see that ever happening, but the arguments against it are pretty weak (even though I'm sure they'll win out in reality). The major argument I've heard is the whole 'flow of the game' story, which is utter crap as any controversial penalty call is followed by at least 3 minutes of guys yelling at the ref and other goings on. Fill that time with a prompt review and we're in the exact same place with a proper call being made, or at least one based on proper evidence. The other person making a decision argument doesn't fly either, linesmen and 4th officials already ahve huge input into decisions so adding a video ref doesn't drastically change anything. Besides, it's not hard to setup video screens near each penalty area to allow the actual official to do the viewing.
I think for penalty calls it's crucial that all the available evidence is use. You're basically handing a team a goal, and possibly a win, that's something that needs to be done correctly. I'm confident video review won't be allowed for a long time, I mean they won't even allow it for the easiest most black and white issue of whether a ball crossed the line.
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Yeah flow of the game is crap. We wait 4 years for a World Cup, what's another 5 minutes?
I think knee hitting the ground is pretty definitive.
But reviewing fouls are still very iffy. Did he stick his leg out, did he cause the player to fall. My the player tripped over the foot that was already there. What about offsides? If the flag goes up it's offside and everyone stops. You can't go back and continue the play as if it would have happened.
What about handball. Going to replay to determine a penalty of handball might be a disaster. Ball to hand, hand to ball, ball hits armpit etc....