Town boss Mick McCarthy says he's all for the introduction of video technology into football - this week anyway.

Daryl Murphy had what replays showed was a perfectly good goal ruled out at Wolves, then on Sunday Jonathan Douglas had an early goal similarly wrongly ruled out in the East Anglian derby at home to Norwich.

“This week I’m all for it!” McCarthy laughed. “If it’s a goal, we’re talking about Hawk-Eye then, aren’t we, if it’s a goal, it’s a goal.

“If you’re talking about offside, that’s not in the Premier League yet, that’s not in anywhere.

“I’m not for stopping it for every decision, that’s the thing, so I’m hesitating about making a knee-jerk reaction to that question and saying, ‘Yes, of course’.

“How long would it have taken to decide on that? I had the referees look at the Wolves one and all they were looking at, the thing they were concentrating on was Freddie Sears in front of the goalkeeper.

“And yet he wasn’t offside because Dave Edwards had stepped back on the line and played him onside with any part of his body.

“When I made that point it was, ‘Oh, right!’. They were concentrating on that [aspect of the incident] because I think it was disallowed because Freddie was there, they thought he was offside, but he wasn’t offside. If it’s that level of ‘is it, isn’t it?’, how long would it take to decide anyway?”

He added: “On Sunday someone said there was that a suggestion of offside [from the Sky pundits]. I spoke to David Prutton afterwards and he said they said it was onside and it should have been a goal.

“My point is how long would it take to actually get a decision, even when you’ve got eyes and ears in the stand and watching it.

“For goal-lines, yes, but how long would it take? I don’t want the game to be stopped, it could really slow the game up and I think make it worse.”

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Dissboyitfc added 06:47 - Aug 26 we are talking about wrong decisions potentially costing promotion and relegation millions of pounds lost by human error. I am all for it, could be like tennis, a certain number of challenges against wrong decisions, say 2 each half. i think it would be interesting!
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brendanh added 07:26 - Aug 26 No, one referral per game IMO. Two per half would mean teams appealing every goal. Would affect the spectacle. Also I'd have captains do the referring, not the bench, to speed things up further. Ultimately would be better to have some kind of hawk-eye system for real-time offside adjudication. Not beyond the wit of computer science. Human ref would still need to make subjective decision whether a player deemed offside by hawk-eye was interfering. But that's easier for a human to do in real-time than simultaneously see when ball was played forward, and whether attacker was beyond the second-last defender. Needs buy-in from FIFA. Unfortunately all they seem to want to buy into is embezzlement and bribery.

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ChrisFelix added 08:18 - Aug 26 We appear to suffer from our fair share of poor refereeing. 1975 cup semi final replay, the goal that never was at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea are a couple which come to mind
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blues1 added 08:21 - Aug 26 Brendan h.How on earth could u have a Hawkeye system for offside? You'd need so many cameras to operate it for offside it simply would cost way beyond the means of the vast majority of clubs. Unlike using it for the goal line, it would have to determine a moving target, thAt could be new here in the opponent's half of the field and could only be accurate if 100% in line with the last defender . Very much doubt it's even possible

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Gingerblues added 09:26 - Aug 26 Think how different everyone would feel about MM and the team if we had won the last two games. Basically they did but decisions cost us.
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londonben added 10:54 - Aug 26 I don't think there should be any referrals, it should be like it is in rugby - the video is there for the ref to call on if he wants to. Then it would only be used if the ref isn't sure, for things like offsides at goals, penalties, red cards etc. Those are all natural breaks in play anyway, and don't come up very often in games, I think that could be introduced very easily without taking up too much time.

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Oldsmoker added 11:04 - Aug 26 Blues1 It is possible buts its military. The targeting systems used on modern aircraft could be adapted but then you would have an easily available piece of kit that could be obtained by terrorists.
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