"Fifa agrees goal-line technology" (2 Viewers)
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I'm honestly not all that thrilled, to be honest.
The people who seem to object most about these ref blunders are the people who aren't even near, let alone at, the matches in question. I just don't want to see this sport catered more and more to people who are hundreds if not thousands of miles away from the game. Those of us watching on TV and all are spectators, not judges. As spectators, our job is to watch the games unfold and shut the hell up about how things are dictated on the field.
Of course, the reality is that all sports are in competition with other forms of entertainment. As such, it needs to bend to the whims of a fickle audience that draws money into the sport ... even if the involvement level of its TV viewers could just as well be from the planet Mars.
But a technology that doesn't disrupt the game and doesn't involve two-dimensional images monitored remotely from the field? I can't complain too much about that approach.
The people who seem to object most about these ref blunders are the people who aren't even near, let alone at, the matches in question. I just don't want to see this sport catered more and more to people who are hundreds if not thousands of miles away from the game. Those of us watching on TV and all are spectators, not judges. As spectators, our job is to watch the games unfold and shut the hell up about how things are dictated on the field.
Of course, the reality is that all sports are in competition with other forms of entertainment. As such, it needs to bend to the whims of a fickle audience that draws money into the sport ... even if the involvement level of its TV viewers could just as well be from the planet Mars.
But a technology that doesn't disrupt the game and doesn't involve two-dimensional images monitored remotely from the field? I can't complain too much about that approach.
Something like this is used in Tennis. it helped these controversial line balls a lot. It is good that it is being used in football in a way or another but my objection is since they are introducing technology to decisions, why only this? Why not for the offside situations? and many other controversial issues that happen on the pitch.
Either be like basketball or stay traditional, not somewhere in between and for some things only.
Either be like basketball or stay traditional, not somewhere in between and for some things only.
