Comments on: More on FIFA censorship of disallowed goal at the World Cup: suppressed video, message police

By: Jon O

Jon O — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:01:17 +0000

They like to think that decisions like these are good for the game and for fan discussion. They are, to an extent, when they’re close calls. My argument isn’t even for modern technology to be introduced, no line bleeps or action replays. Just having an official sitting behind the goal, with a flag, and a monitor, connected to a camera looking from above the goal area. He has seconds to lift his arm, flag, job done.

You’ll notice with England’s disallowed goal today, the FIFA write up in the overview suggests the call was a close one. When in fact there was plenty of distance between ball and line. They make no other mention of it.

FIFA’s argument for no technology was that it would be too expensive to introduce on a global scale. Forget that they’re making obscene profits in a billion dollar industry – FIFA = FAIL

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:43:06 +0000

The link to “according to Richard Buxton of Click Liverpool” is a 404 — be interested to see if it’s really FIFA that censored that banner, if you have the correct link.

Great coverage of this issue in general here.

By: KnoxvilleBuckeye

KnoxvilleBuckeye — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:24:41 +0000

There’s new new text on the article now to at the end…

“The Americans might even have won the game only for referee Koman Coulibaly to rule out a goal from Maurice Edu, who volleyed home Donovan’s free-kick from the right. There was still time for Novakovic to threaten with a header at the other end but his effort was held comfortably by Howard.”