06-19-2006, 06:58 AM
Quote:Something about international football has always driven me crazy, and certainly hasn't gotten any better. It's this pansy flopping bit. I understand that if you get tripped you will fall, and if you get a hard kick in the shin it will really hurt for a minute. But instant replay so often reveals a different story...
Your absoltely right. It is a combination of bad referees and see how far you can go....and as long as falling over with a lot of rolling and crying gives results..people will keep doing it.
The thing with football is that there is a strong feeling against using electronic gadgets to help referee the game. The offside rule is an example of something that might benefit a lot from some kind of system.
If you analyse all the offside cases that were close (1 meter scale I mean), you will probably see that around half of the decissions made by the linesmen were wrong......and these close cases are not even the reason why the offside rule was 'invented'.
Furthermore, after watching Holland-Ivory coast I was very happy of course. We now have to play against the strong Argentina (in my opinion the strongest team at the moment) but whatever the result is we continue anyway......just a question of seeing if we have to play Portugal or Mexico I think.
But anyway, I can advice everybody to watch Holland Argentina, on wednesday 9 pm local time (that is GMT + 1) both teams will probably give some players a rest...but I think it will be a good match anyway. I actually hope we lose with big numbers so that the players will feel extremely motivated for the next game.