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The football at the weekend as great if you were a Hull City fan, pretty normal if you were a Chelsea fan, and an absolute joke if you were a Bolton fan.

Let’s start with Hull City’s wake-up call for a usually dominant Arsenal. Although technically more efficient, Arsenal were just a bit too lazy to pull this one off. Hull were considered underdogs right from the start, but as we often see in the FA cup 3rd round, underdogs can bite – really hard. Geovanni’s goal at 66 minutes was truly a contender for goal of the season, what an absolute scorcher! I still don’t know why Almunia even bothered to dive.

Chelsea breezed past Hulls promoted rivals Stoke City with a two-nil bore-fest. Anelka finally did something useful, and put the ball in the back of the net to secure the win and keep the blues at the top of the table. They play a very European style with Luiz Filipe Scolari starting to have his presence felt by the team. Sadly for neutral fans this ensures boring victory after victory. Must be great to be a Chelsea fan I guess.

The big talking point of the weekend is Rob styles ludicrous decision to award Manchester United a penalty after complete girl Ronaldo threw himself to the ground after a great clean tackle from Bolton’s defender. Styles cracked under the pressure of having to make the decision and pointed half heartedly at the spot. Bolton fans couldn’t believe it, I couldn’t believe it, and if you look at the Manchester United players, I don’t think they could even believe it. Ronaldo buried it, and Bolton lost their spirit and then subsequently the match.

Now if this isn’t a call for video evidence during matches, I don’t know what is. How many times have we seen stuff like this happen? Every week there is an offside decision, a handball moment, or a freekick that swings the balance of the game. The reason this has never been implemented is because the football big-wigs don’t want to ruin the beautiful game. What they may be forgetting is that when they allowed billionaire investors to buy over teams as little play things, the game was ruined instantly.

I honestly don’t see what the problem is. Technology is so far advanced that refs could wear watches with screens on them that allow them access to instant replays, our they could have radio’s in their ear that allows them to be told from a fourth official that something happened, failing that they should just show replays of any incident on the stadiums big screens and have the fans vote. Ok maybe not the last one, but the other two ideas would work just fine.

What do you think? Should we keep the game as it is, with its numerous bad decisions, and game changing moments? Or should we actually have a fair and balanced contest. I know what I’d choose.