Monday, June 28, 2010

Waking up neo Luddites in FIFA

Fifa should introduce latest technology in arbitrating disputes regarding goals at the earliest particularly the one that cross the goal line and are obvious goals. What happened in the Germany-England match is a case in study. The goal was denied to England and the audience across the world felt cheated (by the way England did play quite pathetically, the defense was unspeakably lethargic and uncoordinated …the one with Algeria was the worst match but I need add here that with Germany there was some competence, and I did feel sorry for them). FIFA’s argument that it is costly is rather tame and must say stupid. Sepp Blatter &Co stand accused of being neo luddites, they are denying the inevitable. Few minutes back I was watching Wimbledon, the commentator while commenting on call reversal in favor of Venus William with the help of latest technology asked Blatter to follow the example.

There is no debate here FIFA should get its act right and make the changes at the earliest or take the blame for any mishap that goes out of control. The red card is on Blatter & Co.

PS: though Argentina, Germany (and hopefully Brazil tonight) are doing extremely well this blogger is putting money on rank outsiders to win the world cup (I do hope Brazil or Argentina wins!!. It is fun to watch them)