FIFA World Cup 2010

[BrotherLovesDub]

"But technology can help more and eliminate 90% of the most common problems in referee decisions: Off-sides. They only need to incorporate location microchips into players' boots and the ball. It doesn't have to be GPS. It could work with local location, with a computer triangulating the position of players and balls using receptors placed around the field. It's not science-fiction technology. It can be easily done and it's not expensive for a sport that generates more money than any other sport in the planet.

A technology like that, plus the multiple cameras, would eliminate most of the problems and randomness of soccer, while avoiding interrupting the game too much. So why they don't do it? Some say that, if you make it all too perfect, you take power away from the referees and the soccer federations. Others say that you will take la salsa off the sport. And then there's the ones that say that this would stop the game.

It's all bollocks, especially the last part: The game stops every time there's referee call, but even more so when it's a dubious fault, penalty, goal, or offside. It's then when players and referee waste minutes discussing the play (and frustrated players get pissed off too, which later usually leads to more adrenaline and violence in the field)."

http://gizmodo.com/5567120/usa%2Bslo...yline=true&s=i

[Eikman]

lol gizmodo. where's my iphone 4g?

[BrotherLovesDub]

Italy are a bunch of whiny, flopping sissies. In fact, there is a ton of acting and crying in football.

[BrotherLovesDub]

I guess the USA guys should have flopped when they felt their jerseys tugged instead of trying to score. Suppose flopping and faking is one of those things that makes football a superior sport.

[Jason Roth]

Originally Posted by BrotherLovesDub

I guess the USA guys should have flopped when they felt their jerseys tugged instead of trying to score. Suppose flopping and faking is one of those things that makes football a superior sport.

We're better than that.

[Jason Roth]

A better way to read the forums: http://www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/darkt.../dirty/forums/

[chuck]

All Whites 1 - Italy 1

Not all draws are equal - but for all you sooks moaning about draws - if you want to tell me I shouldn't be chuffed as all get-out over that result - in the language of my locals ... you can go suck eggs.

Wooohoooo!!!!

[rayray]

brazil - ivory coast....fathers day gift, hoping for an open match!

[cured]

Nah, Chuck...this is one of those matches where a tie is huge. This was supposed to be a completely one-sided match! An offsides for a goal for NZ and a dive (go figure) for the Azzuri. A complete onslaught the Italians put forth and couldn't crack the NZ wall. On top of that, NZ almost stole a win! Great match, this is where having ties in the WC is a good thing...NZ didn't deserve to lose this match.

[cured]

oh, and how about that meltdown the Frogs are having? Anelka sent home, the team director quitting, the team refusing to practice...epic!