Football (it's not called soccer!!!) again!

After a whole week of no World Cup news where most of us had to get used to that nuisance called 'work' again, a silver lining is coming up on the horizon! The International Football (see that's how it's called!) Association Board will be meeting this Thursday to discuss the use of goal-line technology!

Only a couple of months ago in March the Board decided against the technology. But FIFA has learnt from the EU: You let them vote until you like the result! A heated debate between opponents and supporters of the technology re-emerged at this year’s tournament when a crucial English goal in the match against Germany was disallowed because the referee had obviously forgotten his contacts and was to vain to wear his old-fashioned glasses.

I personally believe that the FIFA gathering will once again yield the same outcome as in March – and not only because the Board is meeting in Wales. Let us be honest: Football is one of the simplest sports internationally played. There are only a handful of important rules and there is beauty in simplicity. Goal line technology would set an end to this simplicity. The next steps could be to introduce TV re-plays and rules penalising a bunch of cheating bastards with an immediate goal (and not just a penalty). Some people might think this would make football fairer and therefore improve it. The truth is life is unfair, and no one wants to see a fair but boring game.

Football is about drama, it’s about those hands of God and disallowed goals, which could have… would have… if only… changed the outcome completely. The FIFA World Cup lives of those crucial, but accidental moments when the referee bends down to tie his shoe laces while all of the 90000 stadium watchers and a couple of millions in front of the television saw the ball go into the goal. When the referee decides to repeat the penalty because his attention was distracted for a second by a hot Latina behind the goal. Admit it! We all live for the drama because we love to think our team just lost because of an inept referee and the other team being a bunch of cheating bastards. That’s why there won’t be goal line technology and the English will keep on losing against Germany.