Aaron Ramsey calls for video technology in wake of disallowed goal against Liverpool

Aaron Ramsey's goal against Liverpool was incorrectly ruled offside

ANGRY Aaron Ramsey believes that football should take a leaf out of rugby’s book and allow a 20 second stoppage for video technology to run the rule on controversial decisions.

 

Ramsey was incorrectly ruled offside when finding the net in the first half of the 0-0 draw against Liverpool at the Emirates on Monday night – a decision which cost the Gunners the chance to close the gap on early Premier League leaders Manchester City to three points, and left them without a home win this season.

The injury-hit Gunners, on a frustrating night, were in fact indebted to a superb display from new goalkeeper Petr Cech, who pulled off two world class saves, that prevented the calamity of a second successive home loss.

 

But Ramsey, regardless, believes his goal should have stood, and said: “The replays suggest I was onside. It should have stood but obviously the linesman thought it was offside.

“I thought I held my run a bit, I thought I was onside, but I took a glance over to make sure and saw the flag was up.

 

In rugby union the “video referee” off the pitch can be consulted by the pitch referee in decisions relating to scoring a try or a kick at goal, and a break in play is called to enable a decision to be made, and Ramsey believes football could follow rugby union by using video tecghnology.

The Welsh international said: “Most players want video technology. At the end of the day we should have been 1-0 up.

“To look at a video for 20 seconds would have maybe changed the outcome of the game. I think we could take a leaf out of rugby. They do it really well. You see it on the screens, they go off for 20 seconds and they get the decision right in the end. Football can learn something from that.”