INTRODUCING video evidence is a sensible idea - so that'll be why FIFA have ignored it then!

What are we playing at? All the money in football, the richest sport in the world, and we can't introduce the technology to get decisions right.

The issue is so multi-layered. Blackburn's Zurab Khizanishvili gets sent off on Saturday when Cisse was clearly going away from goal, meaning Rovers lose a man, sacrifice Paul Dickov, and the game is over as a contest.

They lose 1-0, it upsets the fans, the manager, the players, everyone - all that hassle just because one decision was wrong.

Zurab might have since had his red card withdrawn, but so what? It's too late now.

Surely it's time we did everything we could to make sure that justice is done at the time.

Can you imagine the Olympic 100m final without a camera on the line to see whose chest crossed it first? Even in cricket they use it to tell if a guy is run out.

I really can't understand anyone's arguments against video technology.

The referees are against it because they think it would take some of the power away from them and they'd hate that.

But if referees were ever brought to book on these wrong decisions, instead of just being allowed to turn up the week after and carry on like nothing's happened, they'd soon be crying out for video technolog to help them.

I was watching the rugby league grand final at the weekend and when the referee goes to the video ref, it's still on his terms. He tells him what he wants him to look at and makes it clear why he wants help to make the correct call.

People also say that if you have video evidence at the top level, you'd have to have it at all levels, even in park football.

What rubbish! Those Super League games only use it for the televised matches and, besides, surely the amount people are paying to watch the highest level of football means they are entitled to get value for money - ie, 11 against 11, which Liverpool and Blackburn fans were deprived of at the weekend.

Then there's the time aspect, but is that really such a big deal?

These days you can have seven, eight, nine minutes of injury time so what difference will the odd stoppage make?

Nobody's bothered about the run of the mill fouls in the middle of the park, it's the penalty area stuff we should look to get right.

Sendings off, penalties, balls crossing the line - all issues that can make the difference between a side being relegated or a manager getting the sack.

What I'd really like though is for officials to ask the video referees what they think of a penalty appeal for an away side at Arsenal, Chelsea or Manchester United.

It might stop the home bias these sides get instead of referees just turning things away all the time.

This has all been going on long enough for me. Even on my league debut, the referee was calling all the United players by their first names and the Ipswich players by their numbers!