[ian@huth]

When you look at cricket that is televised, every second of the game is scrutinised using different camera angles and high speed cameras and the umpires get their decision right the vast majority of the time. The umpires only have to concentrate on a very small area of the pitch at any one time. There are many instances in cricket where, even with all the video replays, high speed cameras and snickometers it is impossible to know what actually happened.

With football, the referee has to concentrate on a very large area with his vision often being blocked by players between him and the incident that he is having to take a decision on. The referee is going to get it wrong on many an occasion, but in my opinion it is better to have this than video refereeing constantly holding up the game.

Football is in need of a shake up as it is getting farsical with the present offside laws and theatrical diving, etc.