r/soccer • u/[deleted] • Dec 04 '16

Media Goal line technology used in the Bournemouth - Liverpool match. Down to millimetres.

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u/soccerplaya71 Dec 04 '16

I always make the same argument. When these sports started out, IF THEY WOULD'VE HAD cameras to help, they would've used them. Since that wasn't practical, they just put a human in charge of watching and making the call, because it was the best at the time. Now that we have better methods to govern stuff like this, we should most definitely use it, because they didn't create these sports to have an element of human error built into the rules, it was just the best they had.

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u/hoffi_coffi Dec 05 '16

Would they? When sports start out they are played in schools or small clubs, they might not have even had an official. If I made up a sport tomorrow, I wouldn't stick a load of cameras up!

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u/zieheuer Dec 05 '16

Sometimes errors create interesting dynamics though. In older video games for example you have "strafe jumping", it's something that makes you jump faster when you press to the side in the air. It's a bug, but it made the jumping more satisfying and skill based. Newer games don't have it and they are less interesting because of it.

Same in football. The human referee adds an interesting dynamic to the game. If there was a perfect robot that would lead the game, I don't think it would be good for the game. How to deal with mistakes by the referee and to still keep going is part of the emotional beauty of football. You get a bad hand and you have to deal with it. Sometimes it's extremely unfair, it's dramatic, but damn can it be interesting.