The World Championship of Whiny Bitches: FIFA World Cup 2006

[infamousmrsatan]

The World Cup has been drawing a lot of my interest lately, filling my mindspace with a veritable trove of celebrated players and wild speculations about the prospectve winners, and sending replays of inconcievable goals and near misses whizzing through the 8mm reel of my conciousness

Comments

[fango]

Good piece you've got here, but I have to disagree with two things (and then add more comments underneath, heh

[infamousmrsatan]

Thanks for your response

[fango]

But the linemen need to be watching the action that's happening now, not reviewing play. And giving out penalties for things that happened a minute ago would be bad form as well. Also, from what I read in one of the articles about the incident, apparently there is an official watching video reviews, but he is forbidden from interfering with the game and is basically just there I suppose to hand down judgment as to whether a player should be fined, suspended, etc. after the game

[infamousmrsatan]

You missed the fundamental assumption -- that this could be done without interrupting the action.

The lineman who did the -- lets call it video surveillance would be specially appointed to that task, not taken from one of the existing linemen. Also the review would happen within seconds, not minutes.

Expanding on the idea, suppose you had a particular special "video ref" to watch various sections of hte field, or various players. He could have live coverage of his particular quarry from five different angles, and instantly know if there had been a foul.

Expensive, yes, but the world cup generates millions if not more, so I don't think its neccesarily over the top. Especially when these kinds of tactics are being employed.

And you ARE right about the yellow cards. If something had happened to allow Zidane to release some steam the headbut would never have occured.