Finally, at least they're thinking about it. On that note:DRuM wrote:FIFA boss apologised today about the disallowed england goal AND they're seriously considering goalline technology, ie, like hawkeye.
Maybe while they're at it we can get FIFA to reconsider tie-breakers? I fucking hate penalty shots as they are and think it'd be much better to switch to the old MLS version or something similar. Of course, the MLS ditched that so maybe it sucked but it always seemed like a better option to me.Captain Mazda wrote:Japan vs Paraguay just went to penalties.
Completely unsourced wikipedia quote:
The North American Soccer League in the 1970s and then Major League Soccer in the 1990s experimented with a variation of the shootout procedure.
Instead of a straight penalty kick, the shootout started 35 yards from the goal and having five seconds to attempt a shot. The player could make as many moves as he could in a breakaway situation in the five seconds, then attempt a shot. This procedure is similar to that used in an ice hockey penalty shot. As with a standard shootout, this variation used a best-of-five-kicks model, and if the score was still level, the tiebreaker would head to an extra round of one attempt per team.
This format rewarded player skills, as players were able to attempt to fake out goalkeepers in an attempt to make the shot, as in a one-on-one skills contest.
MLS abandoned this experiment in 2000. If penalties are required to determine a winner during the playoffs, MLS now uses the shootout procedure specified by the IFAB.
