FIFA go home - you're screwing up the game

posted on: Jun 28 2010 21:37 by getthis. Viewed 378 times.


For football fans around the world, FIFA's refusal to use basic technology is making a mockery of the game.
Legitimate goals are being disallowed by referees who claim they didn't see them, and illegitimate goals are being awarded when the team has handballed or is offside.
The whole point of a referee is to ensure that the rules are maintained, but FIFA is ruining the game for players, supporters and fans by its blanket refusal to use basic 20th century technology - used in every other televised sport - to assist with the governing of the game.
The World Cup has unfortunateley highlighted the inability of referees and linesmen to make decisions on a game they cannot see clearly.
In one day, June 27, two games were heavily influenced by faulty referee decisions. Mexico went 1:0 down to Argentina on an illegitimate offiside goal, clearly visible seconds after it happened on global TV to millions of viewers, and England were refused the opportunity to equalize against Germany after a valid goal was declared void. In both cases, even before the referee had confirmed his incorrect decision, cameras around the world were showing the truth to millions of fans.
Sadly, and rather strangly, FIFA didn't think it was worth notifying the refs- on their radio earphones at the exact moments - that the decisions they were making were faulty. And even more odd, FIFA refuse to accept their errors.
FIFA, you have showed yourself to be inept to run the World Cup. Please do the World a favor and resign now. We will be forever grateful!