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DRuM wrote:FIFA boss apologised today about the disallowed england goal AND they're seriously considering goalline technology, ie, like hawkeye.

Captain Mazda wrote:Japan vs Paraguay just went to penalties.

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.

Don Carlos wrote:How so?

Doombrain wrote:Argentina is the new England.

Don Carlos wrote:Well you will be shown a good time tonight!

chopov wrote:Correct result would be 4:2, shame on the refs. But imo there's no doubt GER winning was just. Lions were quite weak in comparison...

Ryoki wrote:it cannot!
They must fight, and it will be spectacular.

losCHUNK wrote:FIFA are a mess though, video tech in the argie game pretty much proved how it could be used to prevent the pis poor decisions that have already been made at this tournament , i used to be against technology in this sport too !

I read someone somewhere had the idea of fitting the ball with a tiny chip so that it beeps in the earthingie of the ref when the ball goes over the line.

Maybe eh