FIFA WORLD CUP 2010: Germany defeats England as a result of poor refereeing
England faced Germany in yesterdays big match, which amid controversial refereeing in the first half turned out to be a goal scoring fiesta for the Germans as they beat the ‘three lions’ with a humiliating score of 4-1. As a result of the round of 16, England was stopped from progressing any further in the tournament and were eliminated.
A match which eventually ended 4-1 could have been a lot different had the goal that never saw it to the scorecards could have actually been given, had the side referee been attentive enough to witness what had happened at the nets as German Goal keeper Neuer took the ball out of the nets and instantly fired it back to the field.
Frank Lampard was the player who was denied the goal largely due to poor refereeing, a ban on the use of technology and a lack of sportsmanship on part of the German as the stakes were pretty high and intense in the first half of the game.
However with that said, one cannot deny the fact that Germany truly did deserve yesterdays victory as despite England being denied the equalizer, the English side just didn’t look the same in the second half.
Germany was a lot more aggressive and were handed goals in a silver platter by England as they just could not handle the speed of the Germans.
Germany was quick to take advantage of these opportunities and scored two goals in quick succession to take the score to a match winning 4 goals to 1 in just a couple of minutes into the second half.
However, the question is that had the equalizer been given, would the fate of the overall match be any different? And why is FIFA bent upon not using technology?
Well for his defence, the President of FIFA, Sepp Blatter says that technology undermines the authority of the officials.
What people at large don’t understand is and perhaps Mr. Blatter would be kind enough to explain to the world that exactly how he and a bunch of suited officials came up with this notion?
Also, if technology does undermine authority then would you say that perhaps cricket umpires, tennis referees and all other sporting umpires should also hold a protest and ask their respective associations and councils to ban video replays and thus become God’s of the game?
Everyone admits that humans are prone to mistakes and that is the very reason why computers were invented so that humans can be aided and life be simplified.
Also one more thing, if the authority is undermined then perhaps the use stopwatches for time and headsets for communication with other officials should also be banned by FIFA. Since it is technology, shouldn’t Mr. Blatter agree with that logic?
Pointing towards the obvious lack of understand on behalf of FIFA could be verified if the guilty referee of yesterdays game could be asked if he would have been more than happy had technology been used. A second worth of negligence could have been corrected and that also in the spirit of the game.
Everyone hopes that yesterday’s mistake is addressed soon at the next FIFA meeting and also that such an incident does not happen in the remaining crucial games of the World Cup 2010.
Moving back to soccer now, today in South Africa the mighty Brazilians take on Chile in a bid to move towards and win their sixth World Cup title. The Chileans on the other hand who have not been in a World Cup finals stage since 1998 will be hoping for Brazil to struggle just as the rest of the star-studded teams have done so far in the tournament.
However, before the much anticipated Brazilian show, the first game of the day will be played between Netherlands and Slovakia.
The Dutch, who remain unbeaten so far in the tournament, will not be taking Slovakia lightly as it is this very team which saw itself into the final 16 after accomplishing the unimaginable as they defeated Italy in style.
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