STAN Ternent believes the time has come for video evidence to be used to make sure that the officials get the big decisions in football right.

And he blasted: "People say video evidence will slow the game down but have we all got to be home for five o'clock? I don't think so."

The Burnley boss was speaking at the successful "Audience with Stan Ternent" at Clitheroe Football Club on Thursday night.

"It is now time for technology to be used on the major decisions," he said. "Sometimes it will go for you, sometimes against.

"Preston scored against us and that is one decision that would have gone against us but then when Drissa headed the ball against the bar against Bradford it would have gone for us. The referee could not be 100 per cent sure at the time.

"Then there was the goal that Henry scored against Man United the other night. It hardly takes a second to flash it up on the screen so what is the problem.

"They have got it in cricket and in rugby league, why not in football. And what does the fourth official do at the moment apart from stand there and argue with the two managers."

Ternent has had his run-ins with officials over the years and this season had to serve a two-match touchline ban following a clash after the Wolves match at Turf Moor the season before but he is clearly unrepentant.

"With all due respect, referees are a closed shop," he said. "After every match all managers get to give marks out of 50 for various things but we are never allowed to see the assessor's report.

"The assessors are all ex-referees and it is a case of the blind leading the blind. I don't think we can help them, if they don't know what they are doing or what they are looking for.

"The top refs have gone full time but they are still making the same mistakes. We can't help them, it is impossible."

The Burnley boss spent 90 minutes answering a vast array of questions from the sell-out audience at the club's Shawbridge ground.

He was asked about everything from his famous feud with Neil Warnock - "I don't like him" - his views on women's football - "it's okay" - and the scouting system that has seen foreign talent arrive at Turf Moor in recent times.

On bringing in foreign stars he said: "We have a scouting system but a lot of it comes from agents.

They will mention a player and I will bring him over on trial and that is how we got Nik the Greek, Arthur and Drissa.

"Dimi was different because I was tipped off about their under-21 side that had a lot of good players in it. I went out a couple of times to see him and brought him over.

The down side is you can lose them. Dimi is already a massive star out there, captain of the Under-21s and a full international so when they ask him to go back to play for the country, you have to send him."

Ternent's visit to Clitheroe helped to raise £2000 for funds and club chairman Dave Burgess said: "It was a great night, everyone enjoyed it and we are very grateful to Stan for giving us his time."