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McCarthy All For Video Technology - This Week At Least - Ipswich Town News

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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