Quote Originally Posted by Taintedice View Post
The English FA are bringing in video analysis for next season's FA Cup so inevitable the technology will be expanded if it works.
I believe under the English FA the referees need to declare an interest in a particular football team which means they'll never be allowed ref a competitive match involving said team. That protects the team involved and the ref himself from accusations of bias. It all seems rather sensible to me to be honest but listening to Nasal Keevins the other night in Scotland it would just descend into a "what school did you go to" question. I honestly believed Scotland in general had moved way beyond that, and even the antiquated SFA were beyond that kind of thing. According to Keevins though we're not :-(

Surely refs don't just follow one of two or three teams in Scotland. Would it not be possible to declare an interest in Team A, and ref all the other clubs but not Team A?