SAM Allardyce has renewed his call for video replays to help referees make controversial decisions.

The Wanderers' boss accepts he may well be wasting his breath but says the technology is available and should be used -- for football's sake.

"We've got it everywhere else -- in rugby, American football, cricket -- and the sooner we get it, the better," he said. "If it means we get the right decisions more often than we get the wrong ones, let's have it!"

Allardyce claims it is the reluctance of referees that is holding up the introduction of technology he believes can help adjudicate on disputed line-calls and offsides.

"It wouldn't cost a lot," he adds, "but the biggest barrier lies with the referees or rather the man who runs the referees. He must have something against it."

Video replay would unquestionably have led to referee Paul Durkin disallowing Manchester United's third goal at Old Trafford when Paul Scholes was left in the clear after Ruud van Nistelrooy had touched the ball coming back from an offside position.

Allardyce says Scholes was also offside and, although accepting the decision had no great bearing on the outcome of the game, he points out that the disciplinary repercussions could have been damaging.

Jussi Jaaskelainen was booked for dissent but it could have been worse.

"Many more players could have been booked for protesting and who could really blame them?" he claimed.

"You can't ask a professional player to behave himself when something like that happens. It's his livelihood, it's my livelihood and they (officials) have to be held accountable.

"By all accounts the referee's assistant didn't see the ball touch Van Nistelrooy. I haven't asked Paul Durkin but I'm sure that, if he had been able to see the video, he would have disallowed the goal and the game could have carried on."