I don't think that extra referees or linesmen is the way forward at all to solve the problem of wrong decisions in football. It would involve more people cluttering the sidelines and the field of play to end up making the same mistakes as always. Or not many less. Or even new and different ones.
When even a TV replay sometimes can't give us a final verdict on a particular incident, how can we expect any human being to get it right all the time without the benefit of time to consider and multiple angles? How many times any of us viewers have changed our mind after a TV replay ('oh, look, it was a dive', 'hey, no, there was contact from the defender') when we had thought the first time that we had seen it right and clear? Finding a way of working the use of technology into the refereeing of games is the way to go. Limited challenges to the decisions, limited cases in which it can be asked for, whatever, but there are ways, and they must be explored.
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