Is it even possible to remove subjectivity from the officiating? Words like ‘negligible’, ‘deliberate’ and ‘dangerous’ currently do a lot of the heavy lifting in the laws of the game, all of which are quantifiable and open to interpretation.
How could realistic technology, either now or in the future, help the officials with the black/white yes/no in/out decisions?
Constructive discussion only please.
You can’t completely get rid of subjectivity. You can reduce it. The more refs you have in a panel, less subjective the decisions will be. This has been adopted accross various sports that have a degree of subjectivity in awarding points. The only way you can add more refs would in VAR. So when there is a subjective decision which happens on fouls, the var should compose of atleast 3 refs all looking at the foul independently and they all should arrive at a decision if it is foul or not independently. They should then communicate that lets 2/3 refs think this is a foul to the on field ref and then the on field ref should look at the replays. The decision should be left to the on field ref then. Now it becomes a shared decision. This lowers subjectivity a lot more than just having 1 Var and 1 ref.