Football: Still Administered by Jobsworths

Once again, I sit down for the big game and find myself cursing the day Michel Platini was born an hour later, as another match is spoiled by UEFA's pigheaded refusal to heed the weight of popular opinion and introduce video evidence as a means of eliminating the worst misjudgements from the game.
As with his support of the parochial 6+5 ruling, Platini seems to want to forcibly tether the game to some golden yesteryear at any expense, regardless of how society or technology have moved on.
In the case of yesterday's sending off of Frank Lampard, a quick word in the referee's earphone from an official with access to the plethora of cameras surrounding the action would have reversed the referee's course. Arguments against the use of video evidence usually centre on it slowing down the game. No time would have been wasted in this instance; the referee had already stopped play, and an unwarranted red card merely led to time wasted by the subsequent player protest.
The other counterarguments usually advanced by Luddites against the use of video evidence are that it would create a less than level playing field as clubs lower down the leagues would be unable to call on it, and that it would break up the flow of matches as play was halted for each incident to be investigated. Both claims are ludicrous. The notion of big club-matches becoming more fairly adjudicated is hardly to the detriment of smaller ones. As for time wastage, simply leave it to the referee to call on evidence when he has already stopped play, and only in the three situations where his decision is critical: red cards, penalties and the ball crossing the goal line.
Or is all this really too big for UEFA - should FIFA decide instead? Fine, only they're run by Sepp Blatter, who generates soundshite at a rate Platini is clearly trying his level best to keep up with. Who elected these people? Can't we just ignore them?