Sour Mash

I've just given you one simple example of why it doesn't work, to make it easiest to understand. I can give more examples if you want? Cricket/NFL/Tennis all have very consistent, very regular, fairly prolonged stops in play that football doesn't. That's why it works and is used for them and it's not used for football.

You're on such a wind-up How many more academy players did MP give a debut to than Koeman for example? They've both taken exactly the same approach of playing the best team available to them.

See my post at 7.17pm.

You've gone back to edit your earlier post (which I've already quoted anyway), to cover your tracks

Just because I've explained why your solution doesn't work doesn't make everything a strawman.

Spurs' away shirt this year is blue, I think you're getting it confused with their third shirt

Do you not understand that its just an easy example to help you to understand why your solution doesn't work and why its not used?

Anyone know how ticket sales are going for this one? Leicester away usually popular, easy enough on the trains, good number of tickets etc.

So as I said, Spurs do not have a yellow away shirt practically every year, 5 years on the trot without it.

1) Because that happens there and then, not the game brought back to something that may or may not have happened two or three minutes before. 2) I've used an extreme example to easily illustrate the point, I can come up with loads more if you want? 3) Most contentious decisions take several viewings, different angles, slow motion and there's no guarantee that the first (or any) tv viewing the bloke sat in the room views is a better view then the referee in the ground looking at it from 5 yards away. Some decisions could be instantaneous, plenty will take multiple replays and angles.

It's a very extreme situation so that you can understand the point. Add it's not about just "f**k 'em", it leaves the game in a mess.

Spurs last four away kits haven't been Yellow and blue, Arsenall only two out of the last four years I think. I guess some of us just know a lot about football kits

We'll have to disagree on that, I thought we needed creativity more than a striker in Jan and think it's still our biggest gap. Mane/Elia and even Long provide pace.

He looked decent in the final, but playing against a very young and not overly impressive Blackburn youth/reserve side is no real guide to performing in the Premier League. Djuricic was brought in as a fairly cheap, low-risk option to add a bit of much needed creativity to the side, made sense to me.

No it doesn't. The game never runs on for two minutes, a team scores, fans and players celebrate, then they realise the ref has called the game back to an incident that had happened two minutes ago at the other end of the pitch and everyone stands around for a few minutes while waiting for a decision from a bloke in an office. That never happens and never will thankfully.

What have you seen of Hesketh? I think 15mins of top flight football? Koeman seems to have the same opinion. He's got plenty of potential, but not ready to make a difference yet.

I'd rather we picked the best squad available to us, and as Djuricic is currently a better player than Hesketh, Koeman will pick him.

But you're still missing the point that what if the ball next goes out of play with the oppossition scoring? You can't answer that and it's one of the many reasons why thankfully this additional technology won't be used.

So the fans celebrating their last minute winner would realise a few minutes later that the goal wasn't going to stand as a decision 2 mins earlier at the other end of the pitch was being reviewed, everyone stands around for a few minutes. Completely ends up as a farce.

Of course managers would abuse the system if it was in the 91st minute of a game and it stopped a counter attack in its tracs. And what if the ball next goes out of play with it going in the goal at the other end of the pitch? What a complete farce that would be.

But that would still hamper the flow of the game. How long does everyone sit around while the decision is reviewed? What's to stop the manager/captain throwing in an appeal just to stop a counter attack for example. The arguments against are with regards to both prinicple and logistics - ultimately there is not a workable solution.

I'm not happy with any of that, but nothing you've suggested would stop it happening.

They take loads of angles, most are such small margins. So you might have two refs with split opinions, they need to debate, then go back and go with the original decision, completely killing the flow of the game. Without even touching upon the problem of when the game would actually be stopped.

What a load of boring, incoherent, rambling s***e.

But with the majority of cases it takes several viewings, from several angles to determine what the right decision is. And even then the debate can rumble on. Completely killing the flow of the game.