Someone who always seems to have something to say about the referee is Fulham manager Chris Coleman.
He believes thay the move towards using technology in football will eventually help prevent decisions going in favour of bigger clubs.
Football's rulemakers have given the Premier League the green light to push ahead with experiments in goalline technology, and a Hawk-Eye system is set to be installed in Fulham's academy.
Coleman is among the managers in favour of referees being given a helping hand, and he hopes there will eventually be no doubt about debatable decisions in the penalty box.
'I can understand the big clubs not wanting it,' said Coleman. 'When you go to their backyard and are looking for that penalty in their box or whatever, it takes a brave man to make that decision in front of 40-50,000 people, even 75,000.
'You look down the years when smaller teams went to the big clubs and how many penalties they get or controversial goals given or taken away from them. It's hard for the officials and when it's 50-50 you rarely get them.'
Referees' chief Keith Hackett and Premier League general secretary Mike Foster met with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) in Manchester on Saturday to present the Hawk-Eye system.
The proposal involves a camera taking 600 frames a second on the goalline which is analysed by computer and sends an immediate signal to the referee's headset or a device on his wrist, so there appears to be some way to go before there is technology on offsides or penalty decisions.
Coleman, however, welcomes the move towards technology.
He added on BBC Radio Five Live's Sportsweek: 'Officials need more help, it's not easy to swallow when you get a bad decision against you, particularly if it results in a goal given against you or taken away.
'We're the only sport which doesn't have visual analysis, it would take 60 seconds maximum for the big decisions. In a game you rarely get more than three big decisions so I can't understands why we don't have it.'
Former Premiership referee Graham Barber believes officials would embrace technology.
He said: 'Officials aren't arrogant enough to say 'we don't need any help', they just want to go home knowing they've got 100% of the decisions right. If they have assistance to help them I'm sure they'll be happy.'
Taken from: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=412313&cc=5739
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