12 ways to improve the “BEAUTIFUL” game – Part 1
After the recent debacle in the FIFA World Cup, European cups and several high profile leagues around the world, there has been a lot of talk about how the “beautiful” game should be improved.
This broad list has a simple aim to put all the suggestions under one heading and point out the main changes that could and should be made to make football experience much better for the players and the fans alike.
Goal line technology. This is undoubtedly the highest priority change that is being called for by the fans, officials and the players alike. Manager, Kenny Dalglish, has been the latest to call for this technology. His words were echoed
by Manager, Harry Redknapp, who has seen his team bow out to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 thanks to a refereeing blunder.
Frank Lampard’s goal versus http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Germany-c2904 in the World Cup was a high profile incident which could have seen the English team turn-the-tide on the Germans. The disallowed goal, not seen by the officials, helped Germany into the semi-finals of the World Cup.
Tennis has been improved leaps and bounds by the introduction of video challenges called “Hawkeye” and even cricket has seen monumental help by the introduction of the Umpire decision review system which also uses the “Hawkeye” technology.
The last thing you want is for your team to prepare months and months, put tireless effort into a match, only to lose it due to a refereeing error. Too much is at stake already.
Video Replays. Chelsea scored a second against Tottenham while the striker was clearly offside. Van Persie put the ball into the net only to discover he had been ruled offside wrongly. How many times have we seen these situations cropping
up with respect to wrong offside decisions and disallowed goals.
Evidently the video replay technology will give the officials a genuine chance at correcting their mistakes and to revere wrong decisions. This will not only help the sport, be fair to the players and fans but will also avoid controversies surrounding dubious
decisions and outburst from team managers over the quality of refereeing.
Like I said before, Tennis, NFL and cricket have been receiving great help from these video replays and it will be good to see football make use of it too.
Introduce a mid-season break. The voices of Premier League managers still echo over the introduction of the winter break. With people like Sir http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alex-c4752 Ferguson and Arsene Wenger in favour of it, it seems this introduction would be greeted
by all corners of the football world.
With about 6 matches in 12 days, the footballers feel the long drawn out effects of fatigue and are highly susceptible to injuries of their own. Besides, it’s a shame that these footballers are being deprived of a quality Christmas with their families just
for the sake of our viewing pleasure.
This idea is already being put into use by both the first and second tier European competitions, both taking lengthy winter breaks before the start of the knockout phases of the competition. So the football leagues should have no problems introducing this new
schedule and giving some respite to the players in the harsh winter cold.
Article Continued In Part 2 of 12 WAYS TO IMPROVE THE “BEAUTIFUL” GAME
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