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4 sideline officials

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almost 19 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
4 sideline officials
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almost 19 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I was just reading in bbc.co.uk.  That Sepp Blatter is going to trial having 4 sideline officials.  Not to sure how this is going to work but will be very interesting.

Quote from www.stuff.co.nz

In order to give referees more help, Blatter said that FIFA and UEFA were considering doubling the number of linesmen to four, with youth tournaments being used to test the new system from later this year.

Thoughts?????
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almost 19 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
How's about a video linesman? ? ?
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almost 19 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
No video Linesman...One of the good things about Football is its free following game....We don't want it to turn into rugby or games like that where we will ave to wait for 5 minutes for them to figure out if he is off side or not.
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almost 19 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
As stated elsewhere - no matter how many officials there are and no matter what technology they use - officials are alway biased against any team I support.
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almost 19 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Nestling wrote:
No video Linesman...One of the good things about Football is its free following game....We don't want it to turn into rugby or games like that where we will ave to wait for 5 minutes for them to figure out if he is off side or not.


Good call. But trialling 4 officials (+ a ref ofcourse) is a good idea.
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