Having Challenges would be a good idea. Probably would be used more and be more beneficial than Goal Line Technology. Sadly though it is too soon for that ruling to come into effect but the commentator just mentioned that it has been considered 2/3 challneges per manager.

Please shut up Clarke Carlisle you smug hit.

Great idea, then we can go to human officials with the replay's and also use other tech which can give a firm answer which would be final.

I was thinking the same. They look like a pretty dangerous side, good at threading the ball through to dos Santos too.

Similar to Wimbledon, they still use the refs, but if a manager disagrees, they use one of their challenges, and they view the replays. I think it'd be a good system.

No, because a human referee should make the ultimate decision, not a computer. The tech is there to help the referee, not take over his/her job.

Pathetic refereeing performance so far. The llinesman got the corner decision wrong in the first few minutes and since then it's gotten worse, Mexico should have this game wrapped up by now.

Tough to judge them on one game though, Cameroon seem like they might be really bad. Let's see how Mexico do against Croatia.

It would certainly be better than the system they have at the moment, none.
They could use a challenge, review the tape (we can see it 5 seconds after happening so the referee must have access to that too) and then if the referee is totally happy, reverse the decision. Would have given Mexico 2 goals in this game and wasted less than a minute of game time. As you say, it works in other sports also.

Apart from those disallowed goals, I don't feel that first half was up to much.

Wasn't sure how dangerous Mexico would be without Vela or Hernandez in the side but they've looked good. I wonder how Cameroon will approach the second half, as both teams really need the 3 points here to stand any chance of going through.

Carlisle may be brainy. He doesn't make him a good commentator. I have worked with several highly qualified people with no common sense at all. I think he may fall into that category.. ITV and its sports coverage have got it so wrong. Bad choices of pundits, commentators and assistants and as for Mr Chiles. Well words cannot describe. how incompetent he is..

We really need to start using technology to look at decisions that are at best blurred. Is there another sport that won't use everything they can to make the best and the most decisions?

The fact this is the first world cup to use goal line technology is a complete joke, that tech has been around for over a decade now and it's only just being used? yeah...

Will Mexico ever score?

Starting to look like one of those days for them.

That looked a bad tackle.

That should have been a yellow.

The thing is that the tournament is only 32 nations. But the referees should be the best in the whole world. Welsh, Venezualan, Turkish, doesn't matter. Are the referees all drawn from countries who have qualified?

Mexico could do with a super sub.

To be fair, the Premier League has only been using it for a year and the Champions League are still using those useless "additional assistant" referees on the goal line.

Another dodgy tackle there.

I think I know just the guy... Some say his smile lights up the whole world.

There are 43 countries that the refs come from.

Especially on those offside decisions where the game had stopped anyway. I wouldn't like it if the game became more stop-start due to technology. I wouldn't want it to lose it's flow and end up like American football.

Song is a lucky boy not to be off. Quite a few dirty tackles actually. Hoping for justice and a Mexico win.

I wonder how much the Cameroon FA spent on the referee.