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Hence the if, smarta***.

before the season had kicked off - 8 games in, Liverpool are in 2nd place, 1 point ahead of United and 6 ahead of Chelsea, would you have taken it?

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TV should only be used in situations where there is a definite result, ie when a goal has been scored. A player called offside who was onside is capable of just about anything. Leave that ruling as it is. People make mistakes, thats what makes the game fun. If a goal has been scored in obvious error, an TV ref would be a logical choice to sort the issue out fairly. Since scoring a goal is about the rarest thing to happen in football, adjudicating when one has been scored fairly should be standard practice should there be any doubt. I've yet to find a striker or player that scores more times than he misses. The offside decisions debated at length are typically the player active/inactive decisions. Stop all that s***. Clarify the rules for once and for all - even if it means changing the way the game is played. When I watch American sports versus European sports, it impresses me how far the American games have evolved for the sake of fairness and clarity and to improve the fans' experience. European sports are dramatic and unecessarily complicated and it really is one of the reasons I've stopped watching as much football as I used to. I just can't take all the drama. They're slower, sure, but thats the nature of the games - they have fast games that are fair (hockey) and its because the rules are generally infallible and easy to follow. Football can remain fast while making changes to remove the unecessary drama.

When you instruct the linesmen to err on the side of leniency, you're partially correcting the problem. I really think this is one of the few workable solutions. It's this or robots.

Back week after next then? This is Utd we're talking about.

Brazillian in play-acting shocker.

I'm talking about offside rulings specifically. Force linesman to err totally in favour of the attacking player in making decisions he isn't 100% sure about. If a goal results, the opposing team may use 1 of 3 appeals to appeal for offside to force a TV ref to decide whether the player was offside or not. The decision may not take longer than 60 seconds to make. Any longer and the benefit of the doubt goes to the attacking team. Goal line technology is a complete no-brainer and should be instated together with the ruling that only a captain may talk to the referee. The 60 seconds per decision it would take to adjudicate could easily be made up elsewhere, for example by forcing players not to dive and play-act by allowing retroactive punishment for 'simulation'.

The correct way of doing it would be the appeals system that tennis has employed. Would it slow the game down? Definitely. But thats the price you pay.

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