There are more effective ways to improve officiating. For example, with a bit of investment goal line technology can be translated to offside goals and out of play incidents. Yet there is an insistence on leaving everything down to the referee; when there is no interpretation required for Offside and out of play incidents.
It's almost as if the league specifically want wrong decisions; because it makes the league a bigger attraction.
Every time a goal is scored; there can be a review system in place; because there is a massive window (within the context of computations) because players are celebrating and resetting the game. The same can be for when the ball goes out for a goal kick or throw in where there is generally at least 10 seconds of break; which is more than enough for technology to have an influence.
Instead the authorities decide to implement the most intrusive and referee dependent system, almost as if they want problems to arise.
Whilst true, do we really want each goal to have to pass a second hurdle of a video verification test? Ruled out because 30 seconds earlier there was holding on the halfway-line that could have been given, the handball the referee missed by the opposite corner flag, shirt pulling that raises questions so best be on the safe side and rule it out? Just think of how may goals direct from corners would be ruled out. Aren't many of them that are scored without some kind of questionable jostling in the box that someone with the responsibility of reviewing the footage couldn't find reason to chalk off for one reason or another
Ignoring the technical arguments I'm not terribly enamoured with a future where each time a goal is scored it's then reviewed thoroughly to see if everything about it was legitimate and above board. Especially when you consider that currently if an offside flag goes up it stops dead the attack, whether given correctly or not. There's no ability to review that. Once you're one-on-one with the keeper and the flag goes up you're not getting that chance back again.
A future where this becomes the norm:
"And the ball is in the net, all eyes now on the referee who'll be getting information from the video assistant to see if everything should stand. This usually takes around 30-70 seconds, depending on how much there is to review. A reminder that Charlton Athletic vs Southend United from League 2 is coming up tomorrow afternoon from 5pm on Sky Football...more information can be found on SkySports.com. And it's Super Sunday this weekend with Newcastle playing host to West Ham....and we're just waiting for confirmation.....and...yes, the goal stands, it's United 1, City 0. A relieved round of applause breaks out at Old Trafford as confirmation the goal was above board, via the video assistant referee"
...isn't a future I want.