Should Technology Be Introduced In Football?
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:01 pm
Two instances in one day. Both possibly changed the game. One wrongly given. One wrongly not.
So whatcha thinking?
So whatcha thinking?
A group for contestants and lovers of the Channel 4 game show 'Countdown'.
http://c4countdown.co.uk/
Massive offside.Kirk Bevins wrote:What was the other instance? I wanna watch it if it's on youtube.
The game can still carry on while the 'video ref' checks it out.Jon Corby wrote:No, unless it's for EVERYTHING. And then I wouldn't want it because even video is inconclusive sometimes, and it would interrupt the flow too much. So basically no.
Haha wow, I'm the only "no". If by "technology" you mean "an amazing robo-ref that gets every decision correct", then I'm a yes. But you don't mean that, so I think you need to qualify exactly what you're talking about.
Pah. That was a close offside. Without that replay I thought it was a valid goal. By the time the guy kicked it, I looked at their upfront player and there was another one ahead of him straight away - it happened very quickly. I even replayed it loads of times. It was only when they showed that line that I accepted he was offside.Michael Wallace wrote:Massive offside.Kirk Bevins wrote:What was the other instance? I wanna watch it if it's on youtube.
:facepalm:Kirk Bevins wrote:Pah. That was a close offside. Without that replay I thought it was a valid goal. By the time the guy kicked it, I looked at their upfront player and there was another one ahead of him straight away - it happened very quickly.
OK - so I don't follow the offside rule. It's a shit rule anyway.Jon Corby wrote::facepalm:Kirk Bevins wrote:Pah. That was a close offside. Without that replay I thought it was a valid goal. By the time the guy kicked it, I looked at their upfront player and there was another one ahead of him straight away - it happened very quickly.
There needs to be two players. Stick to Countdown mate.
You'd never catch Barny offside.Kirk Bevins wrote:OK - so I don't follow the offside rule. It's a shit rule anyway.
Well a similar rule in darts (if you really want to compare it) is the exclusion zone...whilst a player is throwing, the other player is not allowed to step inside the red zone that is on the floor. This is to stop the other player getting too close as to put the thrower off, e.g. blowing, kicking, walking back from the board and bumping into the player about to throw etc.Michael Wallace wrote: You'd never catch Barny offside.
Thats as stupid as saying, why bother with an oche.Kirk Bevins wrote:Well a similar rule in darts (if you really want to compare it) is the exclusion zone...whilst a player is throwing, the other player is not allowed to step inside the red zone that is on the floor. This is to stop the other player getting too close as to put the thrower off, e.g. blowing, kicking, walking back from the board and bumping into the player about to throw etc.Michael Wallace wrote: You'd never catch Barny offside.
Why they can't let players stand by the goal if they want to (a la corner kicks) is beyond me. If they want to put 3 people by the goal and waste them men from the main play, then fair dos. Similarly the opposition can use 3 defenders to defend these players, as well as a goalie. I really don't see a good reason to have the offside rule.
What if you're stood outside the exclusion zone, but throwing peanuts at the oche?Kirk Bevins wrote:Well a similar rule in darts (if you really want to compare it) is the exclusion zone...whilst a player is throwing, the other player is not allowed to step inside the red zone that is on the floor. This is to stop the other player getting too close as to put the thrower off, e.g. blowing, kicking, walking back from the board and bumping into the player about to throw etc.
The reason they have an oche is so you are throwing from a minimum of 7 foot 9 and one quarter. This is a perfectly good reason. You haven't given me a good reason for the offside rule to be in play.Marc Meakin wrote: Thats as stupid as saying, why bother with an oche.
Haha...they're only allowed water on stage but if he was throwing peanuts I'd warn him and if it continues disqualify him.Jon Corby wrote: What if you're stood outside the exclusion zone, but throwing peanuts at the oche?
From this article: "[the offside rule was] designed to stop goal-hanging, and prevent the game becoming about endless hoofs into the danger area".Kirk Bevins wrote:The reason they have an oche is so you are throwing from a minimum of 7 foot 9 and one quarter. This is a perfectly good reason. You haven't given me a good reason for the offside rule to be in play.Marc Meakin wrote: Thats as stupid as saying, why bother with an oche.
Like I said before, what is wrong with goal-hanging? They do it for corners...Michael Wallace wrote: From this article: "[the offside rule was] designed to stop goal-hanging, and prevent the game becoming about endless hoofs into the danger area".
Kirk, seriously a bit of friendly advice: you make an absolute tit of yourself in football conversations. Keep out!Kirk Bevins wrote:You haven't given me a good reason for the offside rule to be in play.
Give more examples, these made me lol!Kirk Bevins wrote:Michael Wallace wrote:This is to stop the other player getting too close as to put the thrower off, e.g. blowing, kicking, walking back from the board and bumping into the player about to throw etc.[/b]
Hang on - I ask a reasonable question and you can't reply with a reasonable answer? If it's so tittish why can't you provide a decent answer?Jon Corby wrote:
Kirk, seriously a bit of friendly advice: you make an absolute tit of yourself in football conversations. Keep out!
I guess I needed to be more explicit. "[the offside rule was] designed to stop goal-hanging, and prevent the game becoming about endless hoofs into the danger area" <- the game becoming about endless hoofs into the danger area is a Bad Thing (it would be a lot less interesting to watch than what we get thanks to the rule).Kirk Bevins wrote:Hang on - I ask a reasonable question and you can't reply with a reasonable answer? If it's so tittish why can't you provide a decent answer?Jon Corby wrote:
Kirk, seriously a bit of friendly advice: you make an absolute tit of yourself in football conversations. Keep out!
Because I JUST DON'T KNOW, okay? You're right. A slightly complex rule which you don't know, don't understand and don't know the reason for, is completely unnecessary and should be abolished, and I'm just too stubborn to admit it. Happy now?Kirk Bevins wrote:Hang on - I ask a reasonable question and you can't reply with a reasonable answer? If it's so tittish why can't you provide a decent answer?Jon Corby wrote:
Kirk, seriously a bit of friendly advice: you make an absolute tit of yourself in football conversations. Keep out!
Thanks Michael for this, but why is endless attempts at goal (or passing to a team mate near a goal) a bad thing? From what I experienced during watching England, every time the ball went towards the goal, everyone got really excited.Michael Wallace wrote: I guess I needed to be more explicit. "[the offside rule was] designed to stop goal-hanging, and prevent the game becoming about endless hoofs into the danger area" <- the game becoming about endless hoofs into the danger area is a Bad Thing (it would be a lot less interesting to watch than what we get thanks to the rule).
I've just read it on wikipedia to get more of an understanding about it but that's not the point. I now think you're a bit of a dick.Jon Corby wrote: A slightly complex rule which you don't know, don't understand and don't know the reason for, is completely unnecessary and should be abolished, and I'm just too stubborn to admit it. Happy now?
I'm glad to be of value but not sure why it's hilarious. I don't like baseball or tennis, nor know too much about either but it doesn't make my lack of knowledge laughable.Ryan Taylor wrote:Kirk you lack of interest/knowledge/whatever it is in football is hilarious!
You're posts and facebook statuses on football always make me laugh anyway.Kirk Bevins wrote:I'm glad to be of value but not sure why it's hilarious. I don't like baseball or tennis, nor know too much about either but it doesn't make my lack of knowledge laughable.Ryan Taylor wrote:Kirk you lack of interest/knowledge/whatever it is in football is hilarious!
Your grammar makes me laugh - now leave me alone.Ryan Taylor wrote: You're posts and facebook statuses on football always make me laugh anyway.
Shut up Phil!Kirk Bevins wrote:Your grammar makes me laugh - now leave me alone.Ryan Taylor wrote: You're posts and facebook statuses on football always make me laugh anyway.
It is hilarious if you offer up some pretty extreme opinions about something you know nothing about.Kirk Bevins wrote:I'm glad to be of value but not sure why it's hilarious. I don't like baseball or tennis, nor know too much about either but it doesn't make my lack of knowledge laughable.Ryan Taylor wrote:Kirk you lack of interest/knowledge/whatever it is in football is hilarious!
I clearly know something. I also played in the school football team (think I've mentioned this before) and I used to play football regularly. I just don't think it's a necessary rule (we certainly didn't play with that rule recreationally and it never ruined the game).Jon Corby wrote:
It is hilarious if you offer up some pretty extreme opinions about something you know nothing about.
Yes. Clearly.Kirk Bevins wrote:I clearly know something.
You really are missing something with your point about corners vis-a-vis the offside rule and everyone is just letting you run with it.Kirk Bevins wrote:I clearly know something.Jon Corby wrote:
It is hilarious if you offer up some pretty extreme opinions about something you know nothing about.
Well you're all bastards then and you can shove your stupid fucking game up your arses. I'm trying to say why I think the offside rule is shit and you've just resulted to pathetic childish insults.David O'Donnell wrote: You really are missing something with your point about corners vis-a-vis the offside rule and everyone is just letting you run with it.
Basically you're saying you could appeal about anything at anytime. What should happen is you must challenge within a certain time limit. In tennis, you must challenge before the next point is played. You can define a length of time in which a player could challenge.David Williams wrote:Within seconds of Lampard's "goal", the ball was whistling past the England post. Suppose that had gone in, and suppose the Lampard effort was not as clear-cut. The referee awards Germany a goal. Gerrard, more in hope than expectation, appeals that Lampard has scored, and is delighted to be proved right. The referee awards Germany a goal. The German captain then claims that Lampard committed a foul before shooting, and he thought the referee was playing advantage. The referee checks the footage and awards a free-kick to Germany. However Gerrard, who has also been watching the footage, spots a foul on Defoe in the penalty area just prior to this. The referee agrees, and awards a penalty to England.
The problem is in defining that length of time. My example would have it defined as up to the next time the ball goes dead, which is the same as you say it is for tennis. That clearly wouldn't work. So what would you suggest? in my example what should have happened was an England penalty. If an appeals system and the use of technology came up with something else, what would Adrian Chiles make of that?Ryan Taylor wrote:Basically you're saying you could appeal about anything at anytime. What should happen is you must challenge within a certain time limit. In tennis, you must challenge before the next point is played. You can define a length of time in which a player could challenge.
Thanks very much for this reply. This makes sense. The next step is, if I wanted to stop what you've described, is there a nicer way of doing so than using the offside rule as reading it on wikipedia it is very clumsy and has lots of definitions open to interpretation.Liam Tiernan wrote:To answer your question, Kirk:
"Although the FA's variant of offside when adopted in 1863 was predicated on a dribbling game, the variants further north – in Nottingham, Derby, Sheffield and Scotland, for instance – where a passing game prevailed, were designed to stop goal-hanging, and prevent the game becoming about endless hoofs into the danger area where a goalkeeper would battle with a handful of forwards who could legitimately stand straight in front of him."
In other words to stop 2 or 3 forwards from interfering with the keeper, you would have to station an equal number of defenders in your own six-yard box. What you would be left with is two crowded penalty areas and an almost empty midfield , with the ball just being booted from one box to the other, and a mad scramble to get at the ball. No passing, no dribbling, no real skill involved, just two sets of cloggers booting hell out of each other almost as much as booting the ball.
I think the offside rule is a good rule. The hard thing is juding who is offside. As far as I know, I thought the current rule was that if any part of the body that can play the ball is in front of last defender then its offside and not the "must be clear daylight" rule. I've not checked this though. So there isn't much interpretation to be done, it's just spotting it which is difficult.Kirk Bevins wrote:Thanks very much for this reply. This makes sense. The next step is, if I wanted to stop what you've described, is there a nicer way of doing so than using the offside rule as reading it on wikipedia it is very clumsy and has lots of definitions open to interpretation.Liam Tiernan wrote:To answer your question, Kirk:
"Although the FA's variant of offside when adopted in 1863 was predicated on a dribbling game, the variants further north – in Nottingham, Derby, Sheffield and Scotland, for instance – where a passing game prevailed, were designed to stop goal-hanging, and prevent the game becoming about endless hoofs into the danger area where a goalkeeper would battle with a handful of forwards who could legitimately stand straight in front of him."
In other words to stop 2 or 3 forwards from interfering with the keeper, you would have to station an equal number of defenders in your own six-yard box. What you would be left with is two crowded penalty areas and an almost empty midfield , with the ball just being booted from one box to the other, and a mad scramble to get at the ball. No passing, no dribbling, no real skill involved, just two sets of cloggers booting hell out of each other almost as much as booting the ball.
..but it's not an offside offence and the whistle won't be blown.Ryan Taylor wrote: I think the offside rule is a good rule. The hard thing is juding who is offside. As far as I know, I thought the current rule was that if any part of the body that can play the ball is in front of last defender then its offside and not the "must be clear daylight" rule. I've not checked this though. So there isn't much interpretation to be done, it's just spotting it which is difficult.
Well I knew that, as I'd imagine most people who follow football do. It's really not that esoteric.Kirk Bevins wrote:..but it's not an offside offence and the whistle won't be blown.Ryan Taylor wrote: I think the offside rule is a good rule. The hard thing is juding who is offside. As far as I know, I thought the current rule was that if any part of the body that can play the ball is in front of last defender then its offside and not the "must be clear daylight" rule. I've not checked this though. So there isn't much interpretation to be done, it's just spotting it which is difficult.
From Wikipedia:
Offside offence
A player in an offside position at the moment the ball is touched or played by a team-mate is only committing an offside offence if, in the opinion of the referee, he becomes actively involved in play by
Interfering with play
Playing or touching the ball
Interfering with an opponent
Preventing the opponent from playing the ball by obstructing the player's sight or intentionally distracting the opponent
Gaining an advantage by being in an offside position
Playing the ball after the ball has rebounded off the goal, the goalkeeper, or any opponent
I'd like to suggest a lot of you didn't know this second reason was an offence.
Kirk Bevins wrote:I'd like to suggest a lot of you didn't know this second reason was an offence.
Yeah I know these things but still they shouldn't be open to interpretation. It's clear if someone is interfering with play, it's just spotting it.Kirk Bevins wrote:..but it's not an offside offence and the whistle won't be blown.Ryan Taylor wrote: I think the offside rule is a good rule. The hard thing is juding who is offside. As far as I know, I thought the current rule was that if any part of the body that can play the ball is in front of last defender then its offside and not the "must be clear daylight" rule. I've not checked this though. So there isn't much interpretation to be done, it's just spotting it which is difficult.
From Wikipedia:
Offside offence
A player in an offside position at the moment the ball is touched or played by a team-mate is only committing an offside offence if, in the opinion of the referee, he becomes actively involved in play by
Interfering with play
Playing or touching the ball
Interfering with an opponent
Preventing the opponent from playing the ball by obstructing the player's sight or intentionally distracting the opponent
Gaining an advantage by being in an offside position
Playing the ball after the ball has rebounded off the goal, the goalkeeper, or any opponent
I'd like to suggest a lot of you didn't know this second reason was an offence.
Haha what? It was bad enough when you were arguing from a deliberate position of ignorance, and now you're accusing everyone else of not knowing something which is widely known (and widely discussed in television commentary) on the basis that... well, what exactly? That you didn't know it? You'll be saying we don't understand induction next.Kirk Bevins wrote:I'd like to suggest a lot of you didn't know this second reason was an offence.
Pah. Most of the people I ask about the offside rule describe touching the ball in an offside position. Ryan described it being in front of the last defender on the opposite side (which isn't actually an offence). I haven't heard anyone mention reason number 2 and yet some of you are quick to say you knew it. Maybe you did know it but those who claim to know about football who actually don't know all the rules are keeping quiet or pretend to know it just to make themselves feel good.Michael Wallace wrote: Well I knew that, as I'd imagine most people who follow football do. It's really not that esoteric.
Dude, you can stop with the amateur psychology now.Kirk Bevins wrote:Pah. Most of the people I ask about the offside rule describe touching the ball in an offside position. Ryan described it being in front of the last defender on the opposite side (which isn't actually an offence). I haven't heard anyone mention reason number 2 and yet some of you are quick to say you knew it. Maybe you did know it but those who claim to know about football who actually don't know all the rules are keeping quiet or pretend to know it just to make themselves feel good.Michael Wallace wrote: Well I knew that, as I'd imagine most people who follow football do. It's really not that esoteric.
Huh? I could tell you if something is offside or not. Getting back on to what you said before, I don't think there is a better way to stop goal hanging. The offside rule works fine.Kirk Bevins wrote:Pah. Most of the people I ask about the offside rule describe touching the ball in an offside position. Ryan described it being in front of the last defender on the opposite side (which isn't actually an offence). I haven't heard anyone mention reason number 2 and yet some of you are quick to say you knew it. Maybe you did know it but those who claim to know about football who actually don't know all the rules are keeping quiet or pretend to know it just to make themselves feel good.Michael Wallace wrote: Well I knew that, as I'd imagine most people who follow football do. It's really not that esoteric.
I really dislike it (and I brought this up in another thread, but then I couldn't really be arsed to continue the discussion). People always talk about the appealing simplicity of football (you just need a ball and a few jumpers for goalposts), which is true until you introduce the offside rule. Of course formalising a game usually involves introducing a few complexities that aren't present in the average park game, but offside completely changes the face of the game. IAWK (I Agree With Kirk) that we should at least look at whether there's a better way to prevent the hit-and-hope game.Ryan Taylor wrote:The offside rule works fine.
Yeah but I can't think of a better way and I'm sure people must have thought long and hard about it before but the best they came up with is the offside rule. In my opinion the only trouble is if the ref/linesman can't actually spot an offside (opposed to not interpreting the laws of the game right) in which case technology could be used and should be introduced in football.Charlie Reams wrote:I really dislike it (and I brought this up in another thread, but then I couldn't really be arsed to continue the discussion). People always talk about the appealing simplicity of football (you just need a ball and a few jumpers for goalposts), which is true until you introduce the offside rule. Of course formalising a game usually involves introducing a few complexities that aren't present in the average park game, but offside completely changes the face of the game. IAWK (I Agree With Kirk) that we should at least look at whether there's a better way to prevent the hit-and-hope game.Ryan Taylor wrote:The offside rule works fine.
Everyone knows it dude, seriously.Kirk Bevins wrote:Pah. Most of the people I ask about the offside rule describe touching the ball in an offside position. Ryan described it being in front of the last defender on the opposite side (which isn't actually an offence). I haven't heard anyone mention reason number 2 and yet some of you are quick to say you knew it. Maybe you did know it but those who claim to know about football who actually don't know all the rules are keeping quiet or pretend to know it just to make themselves feel good.Michael Wallace wrote: Well I knew that, as I'd imagine most people who follow football do. It's really not that esoteric.
I am still not convinced. I've asked mates before and they *always* say it's when they touch the ball etc and *nobody* has ever mentioned point 2 to me. Whether they are keeping things simple for me I'm not quite sure.Jon O'Neill wrote: Everyone knows it dude, seriously.
It must be that. Commentators love to talk about it.Kirk Bevins wrote:I am still not convinced. I've asked mates before and they *always* say it's when they touch the ball etc and *nobody* has ever mentioned point 2 to me. Whether they are keeping things simple for me I'm not quite sure.Jon O'Neill wrote: Everyone knows it dude, seriously.
I'm pretty sure it was Bill Shankly who said "If he is not interferring with play, he should be" As usual Atkinson was stealing ideas from better managers.Marc Meakin wrote:As the famous pundit, and somtimes racist, Ron Atkinson used to say "If he is not interferring with play, what's he doing on the pitch".
Probably, sounds like they're still waiting for you to grasp point one fully, which you don't seem to have done judging from your earlier posts. And no , I'm not being sarcastic here, it's just that you seem to think the whole concept is much more complicated than it actually is.Kirk Bevins wrote:I am still not convinced. I've asked mates before and they *always* say it's when they touch the ball etc and *nobody* has ever mentioned point 2 to me. Whether they are keeping things simple for me I'm not quite sure.Jon O'Neill wrote: Everyone knows it dude, seriously.