Cricket has benefited tremendously from the team challenge system, where we see umpires decisions proven wrong with regularity. The same in tennis. Spectators love it because it serves the best interests of fair play.
There is only one reason why Televised footballs controllers resist this advance and it is the most obvious one. Almost every one of the big games I have watched this season have all been very obviously decided by incorrect refereeing decisions. More often than not it is the 23rd player on the field whose performance determines the outcome. The skills of a Messi or a Ronaldo having less bearing on a games outcome than that of the whistleblower.
There is no sustainable argument for preventing the third umpire approach with each team having a number of challenges to the referees decision. The only conclusion left to draw from this ongoing failure to implement the obvious, for many years since it first became technically feasible, is that its implementation would diminish the opportunity for officials to fix games.
You will know when Football games are no longer fixed when the TV referral system comes into play. Until then - Football remains the hijacked property of a corrupt self serving set of administrators who are getting away with murder - injecting the festering pus of their self serving corruption and infecting the beautiful game.
I can't tell you how pleased I am to hear that you're giving up your Sky Sports sub. Sky has kidnapped out sports and demands a ransom from us to watch it. The fact that this deprives many people of the pleasure of watching sport is bad enough, but it has also corrupted many sports, especially football. The obscene amounts that clubs can demand for televising their games has translated into obscene sums being paid for and to players. The result of a match means so much more than mere pride in one's club or personal performance, so that now the beauty element has been extracted from the beautiful game.
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