If they have goalline replays and replay technology at the Worldcup...then they have to have it in our School Leagues.... in ALL the games that run up to the World Cup and in ALL local league matches where players and teams that end up in the world cup play.
it MUST be equal and even across the board for Competitions under FIFA that count. Will you ever see an NCAA game where they keep time on watches and they score games on a whiteboard? No. Neither will you see that in the American Football college games. The same technology is used across the board. Until that can be accomplished for all 118 countries which FIFA rules govern, it cannot be used only in the World Cup. If it were used only in the World Cup, then what would you tell Ireland who did not get to the worldcup because there was no replay technology in their match where Henry used his hand to score a goal? So there is no Viable excuse. But there is a viable REASON. How about the United States footing the bill for all 118 countries to install,maintain and manage this technology now and in the future for all leagues worldwide (including the MLS)? Money and Corruption doesn't come into it at this level simply because no one could predict that goal would be in question. There was no pattern of bad calls against England for that game..in fact aside from that incident the game was VERY well officiated. On 27 June 2010 12:26, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > The England goal that the ref missed pretty much defines what is wrong > with FIFA at this level. There is no viable excuse for excluding > replay from this level of competition. You could see the England side > totally deflated after that goal. Maybe Germany played a better match, > but who knows what would have happened if they went into half-time > tied 2-2. > > My issue with leaving out replay at this level is that it opens a > gigantic door for corruption, and given the money and national > prestige involved, one would think corruption is inevitable. So > instead of a clean, fair game, we see the sporting equivalent of the > United Nations. Sad, really. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:322040 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
