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It is now time for Sepp Blatter to step aside and let somebody with a bit of common sense and a more youthful outlook to take over the reins at world football headquarters. After refusing to bring in any sort of technology to help his beleaguered match officials a short while back, he has come out this morning saying that goal line technology is back on the agenda. This as a result of the incidents in Saturdays matches involving England and Argentina.
In England’s match, Frank Lampard scored a perfectly legitimate goal which the referee and his assistants failed to see despite almost everyone else in the stadium knowing the ball had crossed the line. It wasn’t just barely over the line it was two feet over the line. In the Argentina match, Carlos Tevez scored Argentina’s first goal having been two yards offside. The goal was allowed to stand and then some nice fellow who was operating the screens in the stadium showed a replay by mistake, and that caused chaos on the pitch with the Mexican players surrounding the referee and his assistant who I’m assuming also seen the replay which means they knew they’re mistake, but did they do anything about it, did they heckers like as they would say on coronation street. They had a chat about it and then decided it was a good goal.
Now I’m not saying it would have made a difference to the outcome of either match, but we’ll never know now will we. If you take away Argentina’s first goal which was offside and there second one which was gifted to them by a defensive error of huge proportions then we’d have been back at 1-1 and the Mexican’s certainly weren’t lying down and letting Argentina walk over them. The England game was a bit more clear cut but again if they had come out for the second half at 2-2 then chances are nine of England’s outfield players wouldn’t have been in the oppositions penalty area for a free kick which went array and saw the German’s break from one end of the field to the other at break neck speed slamming the ball into the English net with most of England’s players still at the half way line. If Lampard’s goal had stood then it would have been 3-2 to Germany and the English would still have had a fighting chance having come back from 2-0 down already. Now I know this is all hypothetical but the dynamics of both games could have been changed.
England were not good enough on the day or in the tournament as a whole and Germany deserved their win, likewise Argentina but the best football teams don’t always end up being the winners as we have often seen in the Champions League for instance. If I may go back to the man who showed the replay of Argentina’s first goal on the screens in the stadium, what would the problem be if there was a referee in the stands much like they have in rugby union who could have looked at that replay on his own and communicated his decision to the match referee over his headset and it would all have been done while the Mexican’s were having there little head to head with the officials.
Similarly with the England goal it would have all been sorted out before the English had finished celebrating their goal. Now in all honesty how is that going to slow down or interrupt the flow of the beautiful game? The only concrete changes that would have been made were that the Mexican’s would have been happy instead of the Argentineans and England would have been happy instead of the German’s at that particular point in both games but at least we would be looking at the correct decisions having been made and Argentina and Germany could have absolutely no complaints about those decisions.
I know it is not feasible to have this system at every match played through out the football world, but in major domestic leagues and major international tournaments something has to done to change the prehistoric way that Sepp Blatter and FIFA are going about doing the job and if Mr Blatter and his co-horts can’t embrace the technology then they should be disembraced out the door from FIFA and football as a whole. They wouldn’t even need technology if they went with the referee in the stand, and what exactly is the fourth official doing at the moment only tapping numbers into a board and taking pieces of paper from team coaches so they can make substitutions, hardly a job that takes up 90 minutes of their time while the match is in progress.
For Blatter to come out and say it would cost too much money to implement is sheer hypocrisy seeing the amount of money the world cup brings in and considering twenty Dutch girls in sexy dresses were able to be put out of a match because said sexy dresses didn’t have the name of the official world cup brew on them and instead carried the name of a rival beer. Two of them were even arrested for god’s sake, how sad is that? It seems Sepp can protect what he wants to protect but can’t protect the integrity of the game that put it all there in the first place. Time for pastures new Mr Blatter.