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Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo
As well as a retrospective system like yours I'd love to see the following...
To reduce pressure on the ref I think there should be a third ref watching the screen/video evidence. The referee has already stopped play by blowing the whistle. The attacker has lost his advantage at this stage as the 'fouled' player is rolling on the floor holding his knee. The referee on the pitch can confer with the referee watching the video and within a few minutes you get a decision. It's either a penalty or a yellow card if the guy dived to try and con the ref.
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The problem with that idea would be that the referee's will end up using the system to check all fouls in and around the box and will totally disrupt the match. Then there's the case of not all penalty decisions are clear cut, you can watch replay after replay of decisions and there are still different views on it from different people. Also what would have happened for the penalty decision United got? It was niether a penalty or a dive, so how would you restart the match? If the ball had fallen to an attacking player after the tackle and the referee had blown the whistle to check if it was a penalty it's hardly fair to stop the play and then restart from a drop ball as they have lost any advantage they had. There's too many problems with systems like these for it to work without causing issues in my opinion.