Soccer needs instant replay because it provides countless advantages and has no real factual disadvantage to being used in professional soccer. Most modern sports across the Americas and Europe use instant replay when necessary, and considering that soccer is the biggest sport in the world, it’s time for it too as well. It will improve the game by making more fair, more accurate, and ensure that the right team who deserve to win always does. Some people say it would slow down the pace of game, or take away the element or human refereeing, but some middle ground could be reached where both sides of the argument would be happy.
The governing bodies of professional soccer have been very cautious about beginning to allow video replay, but they have began to slowly implement a goal line system where a monitor it used to tell if the soccer ball fully crossed the goal line or not. This is a step in the right direction towards video replay, but officials have said they aren’t willing to go much farther. Goal line technology is a good start, but there are still cases like missed fouls or violations that end up costing a team the game, and sometime even more.
In 2009, France and Ireland played a two match qualifying round against each other to determine who would go on to the 2010 world cup in South Africa. It was all tied up in the second match when France’s best player and captain, Thierry Henry, purposely and blatantly hit the ball into Ireland’s goal with his hand, to eliminate the irish from the world cup. Somehow, all the officials missed the handball and while the entire world had seen it, the referees had apparently not.
This type of injustice could be eliminated from the field of football if we had a video replay system. The fact that such a simple missed call could cost an entire country its entrance into the biggest sporting event in the world is ridiculous considering it’s the 21st century. If officials had been allowed to take a few minutes to review the o play it would have been overturned in a heartbeat.
Using video replay would also be easy to insert into professional soccer because of the stoppage time system that is used in every professional soccer league in the world. At the end of the 90 minute regulation time, any time during the 90 minutes that the ball wasn't in play for, like if the game was stopped for an injury or a foul, would be added on after the 90 minutes. So most game have 3-5 minutes of stoppage time when the clock reaches 90 minutes. Referees could easily add any time wasted using video replay to the stoppage time at the end, so video replay would fit perfectly into the system already in use.
The use of a video replay system across the world will eventually be a reality, it’s only a matter of time until the aging, corrupted, old school governing figures of the soccer world will be replaced by younger, modern leaders who will see the countless advantages of using this system. It wouldn’t affect the flow of the game because of stoppage time, and it would stop unfair and incorrect results from occuring. Improvements have already been made in the use of goal line technology, but much more can and should be done before people like the Irish nation team can be content.
The governing bodies of professional soccer have been very cautious about beginning to allow video replay, but they have began to slowly implement a goal line system where a monitor it used to tell if the soccer ball fully crossed the goal line or not. This is a step in the right direction towards video replay, but officials have said they aren’t willing to go much farther. Goal line technology is a good start, but there are still cases like missed fouls or violations that end up costing a team the game, and sometime even more.
In 2009, France and Ireland played a two match qualifying round against each other to determine who would go on to the 2010 world cup in South Africa. It was all tied up in the second match when France’s best player and captain, Thierry Henry, purposely and blatantly hit the ball into Ireland’s goal with his hand, to eliminate the irish from the world cup. Somehow, all the officials missed the handball and while the entire world had seen it, the referees had apparently not.
This type of injustice could be eliminated from the field of football if we had a video replay system. The fact that such a simple missed call could cost an entire country its entrance into the biggest sporting event in the world is ridiculous considering it’s the 21st century. If officials had been allowed to take a few minutes to review the o play it would have been overturned in a heartbeat.
Using video replay would also be easy to insert into professional soccer because of the stoppage time system that is used in every professional soccer league in the world. At the end of the 90 minute regulation time, any time during the 90 minutes that the ball wasn't in play for, like if the game was stopped for an injury or a foul, would be added on after the 90 minutes. So most game have 3-5 minutes of stoppage time when the clock reaches 90 minutes. Referees could easily add any time wasted using video replay to the stoppage time at the end, so video replay would fit perfectly into the system already in use.
The use of a video replay system across the world will eventually be a reality, it’s only a matter of time until the aging, corrupted, old school governing figures of the soccer world will be replaced by younger, modern leaders who will see the countless advantages of using this system. It wouldn’t affect the flow of the game because of stoppage time, and it would stop unfair and incorrect results from occuring. Improvements have already been made in the use of goal line technology, but much more can and should be done before people like the Irish nation team can be content.