The 2014 FIFA World Cup
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I see what you mean about the penalty shoot out though…
Penalty shoot-outs were used to decide matches in UEFA's European Cup and Cup Winners' Cup in the 1970–71 season. The first ever European Cup shoot out was between Everton F.C. and Borussia Mönchengladbach, with Everton winning 4–3. On 30 September 1970, after a 4–4 aggregate draw in the first round of the Cup Winners' Cup, Honvéd won the first shoot-out 5–4 against Aberdeen, when Jim Forrest's shot hit the bar.
But it is better than it's predecessor….
Before the introduction of shoot-outs, knock-out matches level after extra time would be decided by a replay or a coin toss.
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When football was being pushed in the US in the 70s (New York Cosmos, Tampa Bay Rowdies, etc), didn't they have some kind of shoot-out system to determine a 'positive' outcome for drawn matches, whereby players ran from the halfway line (or something) dribbling a ball and then attempted to beat the keeper? Or is this something I'm completely imagining?!
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No, it happened :-\
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Thanks Gav, I've had a few Duvels this evening so am not sure of my own mind right now!
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Unbelievable penalty save from Navas.
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Who is doing the dramaturgy of this? Another nail biter, with a goalless first half, then the team in arrears equalling it, but this one then going to the penalties. Wow. Congrats to Costa Rica, which seems to have many fans here among the forum. Already look forward to seeing them playing the Dutch.
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I was mainly referring to the shootout, but even the PK could be rethought. I pay zero attention to tradition. Who cares how they've done it for X amount of time? Everything is subject to challenge and rethought. There's no reason to assume they got everything right the first time.
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I feel the exact same way. Particularly in regard to the Constitution.
Which is actually more relevant to this debate than it would seem. Much hinges on whether you adhere to "common law" of custom and precedent or "natural law" and its enlightenment ideals of justice and equality.
Mega used "gridiron" as a casual reference to Amefuto, but that grid, transposed off the field and onto a whole continent, is the best example of the lengths the early Americans were willing to go to promote a fair playing field (while kicking out the original inhabitants and enslaving others etc etc…)
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Remember this one?
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The debate over poor or seemingly unfair officiating, and the thrill of a penalty shoot out are two of the things which make football interesting in my opinion. By modifying the way it is done you remove all that, it cancels the debate and sacrifices genuine excitement with a chance of an unfair result in the name of cheap entertainment and fairness. Life isn't fair and neither is football.
There is and always will be an argument to change the way that certain things are done (goal line technology is a great example of this "progress"), but I like to keep the sport as human as possible. Without the debate over human error, or in Robbens case human cheating, you take away much of the discussion element which makes the sport so beloved all over the world.
Imagine if Maradonna's hand of god had been subject to an instant video replay and simply been disallowed and a free kick awarded. It would have denied the sport one of its biggest talking points, lessened tensions between two former adversaries and deprived Englishmen of a generations worth of righteous indignation.
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The semi-final of the 1968 European Championships between Italy and USSR saw Italy progress after a drawn game as the result of a coin toss. Compared to that a penalty shoutout seems very fair and progressive!
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As not brit, same agreememt with mega.
Fotball has to stay the much possible human. With all the goods and all the shits!
What a joke this i don't know 3D view on the keeper line…
Referee is a full actor of the football. Of every match. That's the rule. A good one.
Too much video is, will kill what is the football.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Interesting fact about the etymology of the term 'soccer' that I just looked up:
soccer (n.)
1889, socca, later socker (1891), soccer (1895), originally university slang (with jocular formation -er (3)), from a shortened form of Assoc., abbreviation of association in Football Association (as opposed to Rugby football); compare rugger. An unusual method of formation, but those who did it perhaps shied away from making a name out of the first three letters of Assoc.We could all be watching asser now instead!
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Well, the last I'll say on it is that complaining about cheating while defending a system that rewards it and rhapsodizing/romanticizing cheating in another instance with Maradona doesn't seem consistent to me. I'm not saying replay is warranted per se, they actually already have the ability to show cards for flops and they need to be doing it more.
EPL has goal cam technology, so to say it is or isn't a football culture thing to want fairness doesn't seem correct either. Someone in England obviously wanted the human element given a little help, and to me there's no reason not to extend that technology to offsides. In US sports where replay has been rolled out, you also had people who wanted it, and people who wanted to keep more of the imperfect human element in key decisive moments.
