Personally I'm a fan of technology in football and would like to see more of it used, no doubt some of you have decided to change your mind on the topic after Southampton's disallowed goal yesterday but one player who definitely not a fan is Bastia's Yannick Cahuzac.
It took football years to catch on that technology can actually help the officials that we berate all week, every week, and blame for our club's bad performances. Finally FIFA relented and allowed goalline technology.
UEFA are desperate not to allow any additional help for the men in black that comes from any computers or robots, they've all watched I Robot and got scared, so they employ the infamous officials behind the goal.
And not even those officials can do right, derided when they make no decisions and hated by fans when they make decisions against them.
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But what about when the technology that gets involved in a sending off is the fourth official's substitutes board. That's exactly what happened to Bastia's Yannick Cahuzac on the weekend when he was nearly hit in the face by the electronics:
After the match Bastia coach Francois Ciccolini was asked about the sending off and said "I think the referee did not intentionally put the sign on him."
But despite the contact not being on purpose Cahuzac did very well to stay on his feet in this day and age of diving.
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To be fair to the player there's very few who like to be subbed off and the team were already losing 2-0 when he came off so there's no doubt that he was a little annoyed before the fourth official nearly smacked him in the face.
Cahuzac, the club captain, has previous for this kind of thing- well not quite, he's never been sent off for attacking an inanimate object before- and has seen red three times in four matches.
The loss leaves Bastia in 19th in Ligue 1 and facing relegation.
Should their captain have seen red?
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