I would love to see someday a football league where the clock stops, they resort to replays and every decision ever is the "right" one.
Then I'd love to see everyones' faces when they realize just how boring the 3-4 hour long of low-contact tactical football matches are.
Again, based on very little evidence, almost all other major sports that use it do not last that long.
And again, it is upto the referee, most decisions a referee should trust himself, but dubious incidents require a more through examination and again, if it's too close to call, don't make the call.
You don't get that although it seems like simple changes it can corrupt the whole essence of the game?
As opposed to cheating out millions out of enjoyment over completely incorrect decisions. The essence of the game should not include human error on the rules side of the game. Being dijected because you were wronged in a football match by an incorrect decision is not the essence of the game.
And this:
"The clock is basically stopped when the ball goes out of play and the time is added on afterwards. It's basically the same thing, we add time after the half, they do not add any time after the half. It's virtually the same thing."
is ABSURD.
Tomorrow, you time one of the games. Everytime the game stops, stop the timer. If you get 90 minutes of game with the injury time, I'll happily send you 10 bucks over mail. It won't.
It does not matter if its the exact time, that's not the point, but the idea is extra time is added for moments like this, doesn't matter if it's incorrect or not, it's basically the same method.
As for the excitement of the sport, if Maradona hadn't scored with "god's hand" against England, the sequence of events would not lead to the second goal of the match, a goal considered the most beautiful and emotional goals of all time.
Whatever the past is is the past, that cannot be changed. But now you are talking about possibility, how do you know that if Maradona's handball was not given, England would not have scored two fantastic goals of their own and then, Maradona goes and saves his country with a hattrick, the last goal being scored in the final minute of stoppage time and the game ends as being one of the greatest of all time. The thing about possibilities, it can go both ways, the Irish come into the world cup instead of France and go all the way to the final etc.
Anyway adding technology now will not erase that memory, it'll just make things fair for everyone. And neither will it stop beautiful goals from being scored either.
Based on the laws of probability, any team will be as much robbed as it will be benefited along the years.
This is absolutely ludicrious to point out and I just do not see how one can even possibly believe this. Take for example, Germany's win against England, obviously what you are advocating is England's legal goal now is repercussion for the goal in 1966, however factors and circumstances are vastly different. One, this is the last 16, that was the final, two, this German team would probably still go on to destroy England, already, England has benefitted much better than Germany, it has not evened out.
It's also based on very little evidence, big teams get it their way, Eduardo dived in the Champions League, Celtic got screwed over.
That evens out, and yes goddamit brings excitement. It gives everyone something to talk about and discuss heartedly for months or years.
Evans out, again, the goal yesterday is not even in an equal instence, so it has not even out.
And being robbed brings excitement? What is this? It makes people feel dijected and angry, not make us all say how grand or great our sport is. It's downright terrible. We should be discussing how excellent Germany plays, how great Ozil is, how brilliant their counterattacking football is, that's what people should be discussing, now how the linesmen got it terribly wrong.
Saying mistakes it what brings excitements is one of the worst things I have ever heard, we discuss the team, their skills, their tactics, not how wrong decisions are given.
Football has been fine for over a century. Some adjustments have been made, but for long decades now no major game-changing alterations were made. Why some of you suddenly think that it needs desperate change is mind-boggling to me.
Desperate change? Suddenly? What? I've been an advocate for this as far back as the late 90s, football needs video replay for dubious moments in the game, for it to be fairer to everyone, not just the big teams. I've seen Manchester United get so many decisions for them against the smaller teams (To an extent, Arsenal too) that were just so badly wrong the ref gave it still.
Smaller teams will keep getting screwed over and the game will not be fair. This isn't good for the game at all.
Change isn't bad, change can be good and beneficial to all.
