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Originally Posted by valo403
A knee hitting the ground is definitive on occasion, just as a defender making contact to bring a man down is definitive on occasion. On many other occasions a knee hitting the ground is far from definitive, it may have taken place in a pile, there may be issues of possession of the ball at the time the knee hit etc. There are a ton of potential scenarios where an NFL officials judgment is reviewed by video.
I still don't see what's iffy. How is it iffy for an official to get an opportunity to look at video of an incident before making his decision? How many times have we seen poor penalty decisions based on an official having a crap view of the tackle? A tackle may look like a clear foul from behind but swing around the other side and it's a clean play, all this does is allow the official to see what he would have seen from that position. I can't figure out how that is iffy.
As for handball, a potential disaster? C'mon, now you're just being dramatic. Video allows the official to determine where the ball was played, so the ball off the top of the shoulder calls are eliminated, that's about as definitive as it gets. As for ball to hand/hand to ball, I don't think anyone has ever indicated that video allows for intentions to be read, but it does offer more evidence. The official has the added benefit of seeing whether a hand was thrown out at the ball, or whether it was already there and struck by the ball.
Honestly, I've yet to hear a single solid argument against using video review. People have simply decided that it's no good without actually taking the time to think about it.
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It's all fine until it happens to your team.
I like review for definitive things. I think the hockey review system is wonderful. Tennis is the best, it's a ball hitting a line and it takes 2 seconds.
But I don't like it for fouls. Yes handball would be a disaster. It's the hardest thing to judge. There are literally thousands of handballs that could go either way. I'm totally convinced that if a ref made an incorrect call and got to see it on a replay screen, they would still not change it cause in their opinion, they were right. Soccer refs act like little dictators. Total control freaks.
It takes something outrageous like the Eduardo dive to open UEFA's eyes. It would take something more outrageous to bring in replay. Like another 1966 Geoff Hurst goal that never went in, except this time the victim is Brazil.