Roy Hodgson, the West Bromwich Albion manager, believes retrospective punishment of players via video evidence is increasing pressure on referees and eroding their authority.
His observation follows the three-match ban handed to Gabriel Tamas, the West Brom defender.
Tamas was charged with violent conduct after he appeared to strike the Norwich City forward James Vaughan in West Brom's victory at Carrow Road last Sunday.
The incident was not seen by the referee Mark Halsey but adjudicated upon by the English Football Association after the match.
The Romanian, 27, was subsequently charged with violent conduct and suspended.
Hodgson, who believes the clash looked bad but was accidental, believes the use of video evidence to essentially correct decisions made in a match weakens the position of referees.
"It's hard enough to be a referee anyway with all of the things that go on in the game of football and all of the decisions that you have to make in a split second, if afterwards, people are going to confront you with loads of things on video that happened in the game that you may or may not have seen," Hodgson said. "It's trial by video evidence isn't it? It just opens up the door for an endless stream, really.
"It will raise to some extent questions, sometimes, about delegates and assessors. Such as, are they local people seeing things with local eyes, or are they as neutral as we hope the referees will be?"
In this instance, Hodgson believes Halsey performed his on-field duties well, and it would be unfair to accuse him of missing an incident that happened off the ball and outside his field of vision.
West Brom travel to Swansea City today, with the home side still looking for their first Premier League goal after drawing a blank in their first four matches since promotion.
They also have injury problems in defence. Garry Monk, the captain, is set to make his first appearance of the season after sitting out the first four games of the campaign due to numbness in his foot.
Monk and Ashley Williams are manager Brendan Rodgers's only available centre-halves. Alan Tate (broken leg) and Steven Caulker (knee) are out and Swansea cannot field deadline-day signings Darnel Situ and Rafik Halliche after Fifa denied international clearance for the moves due to delays in processing the transfers.
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Checks continue
A High Court judge issued an interim order on Friday suspending a decision by Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots to direct a stop to Brexit agri-food checks at Northern Ireland ports.
Mr Justice Colton said he was making the temporary direction until a judicial review of the minister's unilateral action this week to order a halt to port checks that are required under the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Civil servants have yet to implement the instruction, pending legal clarity on their obligations, and checks are continuing.
The biog
Nickname: Mama Nadia to children, staff and parents
Education: Bachelors degree in English Literature with Social work from UAE University
As a child: Kept sweets on the window sill for workers, set aside money to pay for education of needy families
Holidays: Spends most of her days off at Senses often with her family who describe the centre as part of their life too
The President's Cake
Director: Hasan Hadi
Starring: Baneen Ahmad Nayyef, Waheed Thabet Khreibat, Sajad Mohamad Qasem
Rating: 4/5
The biog
Age: 19
Profession: medical student at UAE university
Favourite book: The Ocean at The End of The Lane by Neil Gaiman
Role model: Parents, followed by Fazza (Shiekh Hamdan bin Mohammed)
Favourite poet: Edger Allen Poe
Pharaoh's curse
British aristocrat Lord Carnarvon, who funded the expedition to find the Tutankhamun tomb, died in a Cairo hotel four months after the crypt was opened.
He had been in poor health for many years after a car crash, and a mosquito bite made worse by a shaving cut led to blood poisoning and pneumonia.
Reports at the time said Lord Carnarvon suffered from “pain as the inflammation affected the nasal passages and eyes”.
Decades later, scientists contended he had died of aspergillosis after inhaling spores of the fungus aspergillus in the tomb, which can lie dormant for months. The fact several others who entered were also found dead withiin a short time led to the myth of the curse.
'Morbius'
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Stars: Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona
Rating: 2/5
THE BIO: Martin Van Almsick
Hometown: Cologne, Germany
Family: Wife Hanan Ahmed and their three children, Marrah (23), Tibijan (19), Amon (13)
Favourite dessert: Umm Ali with dark camel milk chocolate flakes
Favourite hobby: Football
Breakfast routine: a tall glass of camel milk
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