|
Cotterill backs video evidence
“Our technical areas are quite some distance away from each other so you can't often hear what the opposition manager would have to say,” he said. “They put a fourth official there and I think he is sometimes put there for you to have a row with. There was no one to row with when the referee was fifty yards away.”
He did admit that the managers aren't always innocent adding, “So much pressure is being put on managers to win, they are bound to do some silly things from time to time. We've all done them and that won't change.”
Some high profile managers have had plenty to say in the last few days about referees but the Clarets' boss had some sympathy for them. “Referees are put under a lot of pressure and nine out of ten of them are pretty good, although we do get a bad one as do other teams.”
Moving on to the use of technology he had no doubts, “It is the major issues in games that they need to be getting right and it is impossible to get everyone of them right because they are human.
“We should have video replays for them.. There's so much at stake these days, it is easy to do and we wouldn't have any big mistakes then.”