Still kills the atmosphere. Ever watch hockey? They seem to review every other goal these days. Ruins the entertainment aspect - GOOOOAL!!!!! Oh wait, let's sit and wait for 2 mins before celebrating. Yay?
Now, if they could implement an automated system, that somehow was able to give a reliable indication if the ball/puck was over the line - that would be sweet.
It doesn't kill the atmosphere. The only goals that are reviewed in hockey are questionable.. far stretch from every other goal, maybe every other game. It doesn't take long to check, fans are not such mindless boobs that they would mind a few seconds to ensure only legit goals are counted. They are still free to cheer their hearts out in iffy cases while they wait for the call.. Something that is often in hockey, I'd much rather the leafs (not that they will ever win again) win with legitimate goals and wait a couple minutes every now and then than risk missing something. It is not that big of a deal.
BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa – Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer admitted he “fooled” referee Jorge Larrionda into making the most controversial decision of the World Cup.
Neuer carried on playing even when Frank Lampard’s 38th-minute lob bounced over the line and appeared to give England a clear goal at Free State Stadium. The 24-year-old grabbed the ball and swiftly kicked it upfield as England’s disbelieving players rounded upon Larrionda and begged him to reconsider his decision.
“I didn’t react because I just wanted to concentrate on carrying on and making the game fast,” said Neuer, who plays for Schalke in the German Bundesliga. “I realized it was tight, but I was quite sure it was over the line. I think that perhaps the way I carried on so quickly fooled the referee and made him think it was not over.
“After the game I was in doping control and saw it on the television. And yes, of course it was over and should have been a goal for England. It was lucky for us and unlucky for them.”
German keeper feels he fooled the referee
http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/wo...the-referee--fbintl_ro-germankeepr062710.html
And who says Sportsmanship and Integrity are dead at the International level.
Still kills the atmosphere. Ever watch hockey? They seem to review every other goal these days. Ruins the entertainment aspect - GOOOOAL!!!!! Oh wait, let's sit and wait for 2 mins before celebrating. Yay?
Now, if they could implement an automated system, that somehow was able to give a reliable indication if the ball/puck was over the line - that would be sweet.
It's called playing until the whistle is blown.
German keeper feels he ‘fooled the referee’
http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/wo...the-referee--fbintl_ro-germankeepr062710.html
And who says Sportsmanship and Integrity are dead at the International level.
What did you expect him to do? Walk over to the ref and tell him "England just scored"? The Germans probably wouldn't have complained if the ref signaled the goal.
This is just payback from 66'.
Yeah. it would have made the game a hell of out lot more intersting. Think of the TV ratings, dude. I watch like the 15 minutes of the second half and then just shut it off.
that goal that didn't count changed the entire game. it put england on the hardcore offensive to try and tie it up and regain momentum, leaving little defense. they were too overzealous and got burned because of it.
had the goal counted, it'd have been a completely different game.
But it would have still been a game where England was completely outclassed. They outplayed Germany for the last 10 minutes of the first half and that's it.
<-- not a German supporter
first off, they outplayed them for longer than just the last 10 minutes of the first half
(insert long post)
today, i realized... the world would be in HUGE trouble if we didn't have rednecks/ghettos. socioeconomy aside, if we had more people who were willing to sign their kids up to play soccer and actually see their potential as football (real football) players, our team would be so goddamn stacked it wouldn't be funny. instead, we end up with people who run a 4.2 second 40 yard dash, faster than any other soccer player i've ever heard of (even though the rest of the world uses metric) and can jump ridiculously high. given these qualities, had players been given the opportunities to play proper football every other country in the world does, we'd be dominant.
If you started investing heavily in football now it would still take 20-30 years before youd start to see real results. Also, Im not so convinced that youd be dominant. A lot of these top countries put "everything" they got into football. While they dont have the resources you do, they put most of it into one basket, football. If youd be as focused as for example Brasil, youd be number one but your other sports would suffer greatly.
And you cant really compare speeds between american footballers and footballers. In one your role is very specialized and one dimensional and in the other its more balanced. For strikers your only as fast as you can run while dribbling. Technique, heading, shooting, set pieces, strength, dribbling, defending, stamina, tackling etc. all have to be trained and in good shape and it takes away from speed training and more importantly the most talented in the speed aspect rarely are very in good in the other areas.
lol you're funny :biggrin:Technique can be trained with drilling and playing. You can't train speed quickness and athleticism. And US and Jamaican athletes are the most gifted in the world period. We have dominated sprinting from 100-800m since day 1 in Olympics and many NFL players did run Olympic track and many many more could if it had any profit in it. international Soccer players not so much. Everyone who is or was a former athlete knows we send halfletes who could not make mainstream sports in US and are guided into soccer by virtue of their incompetence. Quite simply we send our worst specimens they send their best specimens in the gene pool.
No I'm afraid if we devoted our athletes to soccer it would be just like our dominance in any other hyper athletic event like basketball and track world attempts to compete in, no competition.
Someone like Barry Sanders would make Maradona look mediocre.
I remember a couple years ago they were testing technology like that. I have no idea what became of it though.All this discussion of instant replay and all that crap: NO. No, no, no, a thousand times no. Mistakes are a part of the game. Players make them, officials make them, and that's just how it goes.
I'd absolutely hate to create the same problem in football that we have in US football now: someone makes a big play (like scores a touchdown), but you really can't celebrate because it's inevitably going to be reviewed so you have to wait and see what happened. No way.
The only change I'd be on board with would be to have an automated instant indicator (like in hockey) that buzzes the ref in his ear when there's a goal. In other words, it's instant, and the game doesn't have to be stopped because of it. I'm against all other "reviews". It's not a friggin' court room, it's a game.
All this discussion of instant replay and all that crap: NO. No, no, no, a thousand times no. Mistakes are a part of the game. Players make them, officials make them, and that's just how it goes.
I'd absolutely hate to create the same problem in football that we have in US football now: someone makes a big play (like scores a touchdown), but you really can't celebrate because it's inevitably going to be reviewed so you have to wait and see what happened. No way.
The only change I'd be on board with would be to have an automated instant indicator (like in hockey) that buzzes the ref in his ear when there's a goal. In other words, it's instant, and the game doesn't have to be stopped because of it. I'm against all other "reviews". It's not a friggin' court room, it's a game.
first off, they outplayed them for longer than just the last 10 minutes of the first half