Originally posted by sh76 To the extent that any sport can reasonably correct or curtail official error and fails to do so, it makes a mockery out of itself. People watch the game to see if their team can outperform the other, not whether their team will get the lucky side of an official's mistake.
Soccer is a game played by billions, not just a watched sport played by a few.
As hopscotch says, FIFA don't want two tiers of football with different rules: elite football, and common man football.
While you may feel robbed (wouldn't Slovenia feel robbed if usa had scored from a free kick which wasn't really a free kick? ), in general, you get some luck to balance the hard luck.
Originally posted by hopscotch The reason why FIFA doesn't want this is the same reason why they won't be using technology to make live decisions.
If you take only the top referees in the world, rather than the top referees by continent, then you will end up excluding many of the poorer nations. It's only an imperfect system in an imperfect world. FIFA does its best to treat every co ...[text shortened]... FIFA is all about the big picture, and if it is at the expense of the rich, then so be it.
i know why and i know it's not going to change under blatter, doesn't mean i'm going to stop bitching about it.
Originally posted by sh76 Did your country just get robbed in a World Cup baseball match?
Your country didn't get "robbed". If they had scored, then it would be from a non-existing free-kick. It was a make-up call and so it corrected the initial wrong. Sure, the ref wasn't perfect as he shouldn't have called the original free-kick in the first place but "robbery" implies intent to harm the US which clearly wasn't there.
FIFA continues to make a joke of itself
22 Jun '10 23:36
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