Last time I checked, the technology used to show us English Premier League matches was progressing at a rate far in excess of a referees “super human” aspirations. Refs are still using the same eyes, relying on much the same bodies, still fighting the same battles that comes with reaching your thirties and beyond. They’re a bit fitter than they were perhaps, but not much else has changed.

Despite this, people (managers and fans) expect them to agree with all of the calls that we can now make from our monitors, armed with multiple angles, super slow motion, high resolution, ten minutes to make a decision and the promptings of more than the occasional ex pro pundit who never liked the referees anyway. Throw in high paced and skillful cheating footballers, the bellowing managers, who often may have their careers riding on such decisions, the ever growing band of players who have their own ideas on what decision should be made and an average of 40,000 fans who bay for blood and you have an untenable situation for a single human being tasked with making an instant decision from a sometimes impossible angle.

The solution is simple. Technology must be applied where possible. It makes no sense to have the means available to be right and end up being wrong just because you won’t use it. And teh resons for not using it? Let’s deal with them, one at a time.

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