It was bound to happen. After a decade of squabbling to make sure the G14 hoover up most of the money in European football, the in-fighting has begun.

"Everybody in the G14 thinks only about themselves. I will say it absolutely clearly: [Juan Ramón] Calderón [Real Madrid's president] and his colleagues only fight for themselves. So do the Italians and the English. In football it is pure selfishness that rules. There is little common ground among the clubs."

It seems strange that after pursing exactly that policy as a member of the G14, it has the whole concept has turned round and well and truly bitten Bayern on the arse. Of course, only a cynic would suggest that this is an elaborate way of drawing the attention away from Bayern's current poor domestic form. Naturally, one of his main targets is Roman. "Given what Abramovich does every summer in the transfer market, how can German clubs stay competitive?".

At this point it should be pointed out that Bayern are pretty ruthless domestically, having bought as many of their rivals' key players as possible in the last few seasons. Lucio, Deisler, Van Buyten, Podalski, Ismael and Lahm, not to mention taking Magath off Stuttgart's hands after his good work there. This works too; 20 or so Bundesliga titles since 1963 have been theirs and no other team is anywhere near reaching double figures.

He also conveniently ignores the fact that even though Chelsea are rolling in it, this cash hasn't yet brought them a Champions League title or even a place in the final. That has fallen to teams who have spent the last 3 or 4 years gradually integrating players into a team and not spending vast amounts every season. So Karl-Heinz, if Bayern aren't good enough to make it to the latter stages of the Champions League, it's not down to the lack of money, it's because the team and its tactics are simply not good enough (like England at most tournaments).

And carrying on from last week's post on referees, is it now the case that pushing an opponent in an off-the-ball incident with both hands (as Kevin Davies did) is now only punished with a yellow card? When did that change? Have I missed something or I am now able to do that when I play football too?

Apparently, "the saving grace for Davies was that his hands were below shoulder height on Eboue and that is now deemed to warrant a yellow card rather than red." Well, if the referees want to set a precedent like that, they only have themselves to blame.

Surely that should read "But they should bring it in sooner rather than later"? But enough of Mark Hughes' Yoda-risms for now. He is right, as everyone bar the FIFA and FA seem to see. Another weekend and another bagload of reasons why some form of video-replay technology is being called for.

Mark, Martin Jol and Aidy Boothroyd were all seething after the final whistle in their respective games. And all three were calling for referees to start using the technology. As Arsene Wenger points out believes the instant access to television replays now available to managers around the technical area could easily be adapted for use by the match officials during the game.

This is in itself perhaps a problem. Managers can analyse any controversial incidents and usually become irate once they've seen a bad decision several times over, while the ref has to stick to what is likely to have been a snapshot decision. Shouldn't referees be able to use the break in play after a foul, penalty appeal or bad tackle? Instead of being harangued and accosted by Man Utd players, the ref's time could be more sensibly used by a quick 30 second perusal of the video while everyone else calms down.

Admittedly, even video evidence wouldn't always provide the clearcut answer to every debatable situation, but it just seems pointless for football to ignore any technology when other major sports have welcomed it. Perhaps if managers, players, clubs and the media followed the line of argument that video evidence could be used by referees to assist them rather than to overrule them the footballing world might see changes occur slightly faster.