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"video referee" is a person who uses video replay technology to review and make decisions about controversial or unclear situations during a sports game or event. They help determine if a goal, foul, or other important event in the game was fair or not.
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We
need video refereeing, or at least a second official to decide on major decisions like red cards / penalties / goals (offside).
However, if there were any hopes
of video refereeing being instituted any time soon in football, they had been dashed earlier in the day after the International FA Board said they would delay trials on the technology for at least another 12 months.
That is disgusting gamesmanship and is why I totally
advocate video referees for checking major decisions like this.
With Hull holding a slender half time lead Tom Huddlestone tackled Demarai Gray just outside the area and Dean inexplicably awarded a penalty —
video referee anyone?
The concept of
using video referees in the stands is something that is gaining momentum, and something I am wholly in favour of.
So as you say one presumes if he was
the Video referee he would still have given the penalty.
On another point
a Video referee would have called Jack's dive.
Worries about Donnarumma senior were compounded when the mercurial Ivan Perisic fired home for Inter, only for
the Video Referee to call the goal back after review.
«PSG are very good but they needed
the video referee to help them to beat us.»
In this example, at the moment the ball hit the net from Hazard's header the referee would be asking
the video referee «is there any reason to disallow the goal, for example for offside?»
Even if the referee had not asked the question,
the video referee could have told him that the goal was offside.
Another cry for
video refereeing maybe because that foul on Bellerin would have been spotted by a video referee within 3 seconds.
But a goal against France — after
the video referee allowed it — saw him back on track in the senior side albeit in a friendly.