Arsenal's Aaron Ramsey: Referees need high tech help for offside decisions

Aaron Ramsey today called on football chiefs to introduce video replays for offside decisions.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger believes the use of technology should be extended beyond the goal-line system and Ramsey agrees after having a goal wrongly disallowed for offside during last night’s 0-0 draw with Liverpool.

“To look at a video for 20 seconds would maybe have changed the outcome of the game,” he said. “We can take a leaf out of rugby’s book. They do it really well. You see on the screens, they go up there for 20 seconds and get the decision right in the end. Football can learn from that. On another day, we should have been 1-0 up.”

Ramsey shot past Simon Mignolet in the eighth minute only for assistant referee Simon Bennett to rule the effort out for offside.

Replays showed Martin Skrtel was level with Ramsey and the Wales international said: “I held my run and I thought I was onside. I took a glance over just to make sure and the flag was up. It should have stood.”