That’s true. And again, at the risk of sounding like an American buttinsky wanting to change the “beautiful game”, put some extra end-line refs out there — at least to get another point of view, if you don’t want technology slowing the pace.
I agree, they don’t have to go overboard and do it like the NFL. But you would think for something as important as verifying goals they could get some help in there.
I agree. btw. I guess a “goal cam” would be something that even most of “hardcore” soccer fans could agree with because
it would not slow down the game (and there is still enought place for horrible referee calls ;-)
Leave the rest to the referee (including wrong penalties ;-)
But if they use video to penalize players after a game (as they do) why not just look at the camera to say goal or not goal if you are not shure. This would not end soccer as we know it.
kickball is fun to play(I lettered in high school and college) but watching it for 2 hours or more as the ball bounces around back and forth well no wonder people get stinking drunk at the matches
You would think that at a minimum in a tournament this big they would add extra line judges. I do not care what happened in the group stage, but in the knockout phase have an additional line judge watching the goals.