The video evidence system now in place throughout the professional game is a double-edged sword.

And all of us know that you live by the sword and die by it.

Patrick Vieira is the best example of this. Vieira's been quite the one for video evidence. Arsene Wenger was more than happy when video evidence cleared Vieira of a misdeamour, but then was against it when it was found that he had kicked a Leeds United player in the face.

You have either got to take it both ways or have it no way. The cameras have either got to be used whole-heartedly or not at all.

I do believe in using cameras at matches. Why not use those cameras on the goal-line to decide whether balls have crossed or not?

They do it in cricket to decide things such as run-outs, so why not bring cameras more into play for football? Referees are human and will make mistakes...and it can be those mistakes that can cost teams a win.

Some referees don't always want to reverse decisions when they make mistakes. Refereeing is about being honest, so if an error is made then the ref should not be scared of owning up to it.

I may make a mistake in a match, one which I am not aware of, and always say to people I'm happy to discuss it after the match. But not when tempers are flaring, because you cannot talk to anyone reasonably in those situations.

When a ref walks off a pitch, he knows whether he has had a good or bad game. Players sometimes use the ref as a scapegoat to disguise the fact that they have had a bad game. It would be nice if players accepted this when having a poor match and leave the referee alone.

But electronic devises in football may end up going to far. How long will it be until we see a man on the touchlines at the rec holding up an electronic board indicating how much extra-time is being played or used for substitutions?

The downside of cameras is that grassroots football will not have this system to fall back on, meaning that the rules will be different for those lucky enough to be a top-flight player to those competitive players in parks football.

One thing I would like to see in the game is a football tax. David Beckham gets something like £40,000 per week. How much of that money is he going to put back into the game that has made him rich.

I'm only using Beckham as an example. The same applies to all the Premiership high-earners. I believe they should be made to put money into the game to help in the recruitment of referees, youth coaching and so on.

It's the grassroots that are the most important. That is the real game of football. After all, the majority of footballers are not professional. Most are pub players or youth footballers.

More money being donated to help recruitment of refs would be gratefully received. And I believe the sooner the better. Football needs refs and this is an area that desperately needs to be addressed.