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Originally Posted by The Phantom  The amount of players is irrelevant. They are trying to have a situation where if a long ball is played up field and the ref is 30 yards behind the play that they have someone in place to see if Richard Dunne fouled Kenwin Jones in the box, or if Jones just fell over. Sometimes the action moves too fast for a referee, and the linesman is stuck on the opposite side of the pitch. Yes, every single thing is not going to be spotted, but by having more pairs of eyes out on the pitch it's going to help improve the decision making in my opinion. |
This isn't what its for though, they are only going to be used during corners and free kicks which is why i can't see it working as there is already so much congestion in the box adding another official won't help spot every incident during that corner/free kick.