Tuesday 29 June 2010

Be careful what you wish for...



Football is a human game, where mistakes
like life happen.It teaches us that things are
not fair, but that by and large things even
themselves out. If we open the Pandora's
Box of video officials where do we stop?
We should start by asking coaches and players
to be more honest, and to not breed a culture of
cheating.
In the Brazil v Chile match (28/06) there were
a couple of instances where I can see problems
with Video technology. One was a dive by the Brazilian
right back which led to them getting a corner from which
he subsequently crossed the ball for Juan to score the
opening goal. Could Chile ask for the video ref to look
at the dive by Maicon?
One of the things that I love about football is that it
is not an exact science, and leads us to still be talking
about things like the Geoff Hurst 'goal' nearly 50 years
on.
It must also be remembered that no matter what Bill
Shankly said, it is only a game, albeit the most beautiful
one!

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