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It is quite interesting that every time the World Cup comes around, supporters flood out of the woodwork in order to support their country in a contest which they obviously don’t understand.
What don’t they understand? Plain and simply, they don’t understand the rules.
This morning I live-streamed the Ghana versus USA game, because I love to watch football regardless of who’s playing. But no sooner than kick-off did a co-worker start complaining about how ‘football’s rules don’t flow and how the game is boring’, which is ridiculous.
I listened to him talk about the inconsistency with referees and his opinion that even the new goal-line technology hasn’t solved the issue, referring to the blunder in the France versus Honduras match.
I soon learnt that he doesn’t support or follow football at all. I couldn’t believe that someone with zero knowledge on the subject could state something so blatantly.
He has a good point though, referee inconsistency is rife in football, but it’s the same in every other code. They’re human, and funnily enough no one is perfect and every one makes mistakes.
The introduction of technology isn’t necessarily the answer either. Football is a flowing game, as all fans would know, and to introduce more technology, such as video referee decisions for each goal, would be the end of football as we know it.
All that would come of it is a 90-minute mothers’ meeting and what would seem to be endless extra time in order to account for the seven minutes it would take to get a video referee decision for each goal decision.
The ridiculous thing is that even when you try to explain the rules to people, they argue with you. They think it’s logical, however in reality it just proves their ignorance.
For example my colleague suggested that FIFA do away with the use of multiple referees, and just have one centre referee, with two roaming cameras to act as sideline officials. At least he knows how many referees there are.
This got me thinking that clearly it’s a strange and stupid idea, because it would require more human input (to operate the cameras) and slow the game down to snail’s pace.
So I put it to you Roarers. Would converting football from the system it is now to the above be beneficial or not?
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