| Is the World Soccer sport getting out of hand? No one | | | | stupid certificate for participation! |
| likes to watch a world class soccer game with | | | | Next, blocking a sure goal using your hands when you |
| constant fouls, free kicks, yellow cards, and angry | | | | are not the goalie, should result in an automatic goal, |
| players. Soccer is better than that. Still, if these things | | | | not a free-kick - something which happened in the |
| are not fixed then many fans including myself are sure | | | | world cup finals, and the free-kick was missed, thus, |
| to migrate away from watching the games. Let's | | | | encouraging other players from attempting this in the |
| discuss this for a moment, but, first I'd like to | | | | future and risking the free-kick to save the goal. We |
| recommend you read an interesting article on this topic; | | | | shouldn't encourage cheating as a new strategy or |
| as there was an interesting article in Wall Street | | | | tactic. |
| Journal the day before the 2010 final game between | | | | With regards to instant replays - well why not? We |
| Spain and Netherlands; | | | | have that in other sports. The US Soccer Team was |
| "A Modest Proposal for Improving the Game," By P.J. | | | | cheated out of 2 goals and bad calls in the World Cup, |
| O' Rourke. | | | | that's not fair! We can prevent these things, which |
| Now then, in this article the author made mention of | | | | affect the outcome of the World Cup by allowing |
| many potential new rules for World Soccer and | | | | instant replays! |
| specifically the World Cup. His article was written a | | | | How about this rule, one that I came up with after |
| few days prior to the final playoff game between | | | | considering the WSJ article; |
| Netherlands and Spain. He suggested the following | | | | If you are constantly fouling in Group Play, you cannot |
| potential changes; Instant Replays, Hand Ball blocked | | | | participate in the finals? Indeed, like most spectators, I |
| shots, and No Tie Games in World Cup, not even in | | | | was completely troubled by the amount of yellow |
| Group Play. | | | | cards and penalties from the Netherlands team against |
| Do those sound reasonable? I'd recommend that you | | | | Spain in the final game of the 2010 World Cup. And like |
| go read that article and then come back to this | | | | most foreign spectators who didn't necessarily have a |
| discussion, you should be able to find it online. Okay so, | | | | favorite to win, I believe that because of those fouls |
| if you are in line with my thinking you cannot fathom | | | | that Spain deserved to win, and that they were the |
| tie-games in group play; I mean a team either wins or it | | | | better soccer team! |
| loses, how can you have so many ties and keep it all | | | | Please consider all this, it's time for soccer fans around |
| straight? There are winners and losers in real sports - | | | | the world to take this game back from unruly play, and |
| face it. This is not grade school where everyone get a | | | | poor sportsmanship! |