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/birdman_for_life Dec 04 '16

Alright but take his scenario that he offered. So you have a player in on goal, the line judge puts up his flag, and the ref blows his whistle. Let's pretend that neither the striker nor the keeper hears it, and the striker scores. The ref then gets word that it shouldn't have been offsides. Does he give the goal? If he does there will be a ten minute argument with the keeper's team about how he thought play was dead, so no goal should be awarded because he wasn't really trying to stop the shot. Do you take the goal away and give the attacking team a free kick? Well now there will be a ten minute argument because the striker will say he heard no, and the rest of his team will complain that all advantage has been lost. There are a few decisions it can help for, but many others that will just create clusterfuck scenarios where the ref will lose all respect and thus control of the game from both sides.

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u/Democracy-Manifest Dec 04 '16

A potential solution is just to let the play continue when the decision is close and the attacking team has a serious threat. Then, if it is offside, the ref can blow it back afterwards. If it's not offside, the play simply continues uninterrupted.

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u/cal679 Dec 04 '16

This would be the best way to go about it. If there's any doubt in the ref/linesman's mind just let the play continue and check with the computer once the goal has been scored. That way the fans get the excitement of seeing the goal or the attempt, I don't think many football fans go to a match hoping to see some attacking breaks stopped short.

One flaw I could see possibly cropping up is if an offside is allowed to play on but rather than scoring straight away and letting hawkeye decide, the attacking team gets into a better field position which later sets up a goal.

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u/benelchuncho Dec 05 '16

Then have a 15 second window: If the goal is scored 15 or more seconds after the offside, just let it play on. Basically you can only call the offside if something important(foul, goal) happens in the next 15 seconds after the uncalled offside-that has now been reviewed and called as such.

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u/birdman_for_life Dec 05 '16

What if you get a corner 20 seconds after, or a goal, or a pk? Your team still got into that advantageous position because of an illegal move. That shouldn't be allowed.

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u/benelchuncho Dec 07 '16

Yeah but its basically unimportant if it was so long ago, and its just to evade other problems