kraikk wrote:Matches like last night have converted me to a believer in instant replay. The other game this year was Armando Galarraga's imperfect game. It seems to me that soccer and baseball are getting too comfortable in their popularity that the top brass are reluctant to change. Every other sport has gotten past their "human element" hang ups and admitted that cameras get it right almost all the time: tennis, American football, rugby, even cricket.
Glad to hear your voice on this. Yes, the most respectable football commentator, agreed last night that football was hundreds of years behind other sports where technology's concerned. There're two issues.
1. Footballers are not allowed to challenge the game like tennis players are with instant camera replay. The subtext is they're treated like gladiators, with no rights to question the limitations of referees, many of whom make gross errors that pose this question - is football still a sport if fairness is not a criteria to bother with?
2. The commentator made a point about the
cost of having extra referees e.g. to stand by the goal posts ! Compare that to the overpaid footballer players and the whole issue of money and football as a sport slaps at one's intelligence, even if one's just being sensible.
What kind of fans that allow such basic blunders going on in their game?