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The thing about soccer conquering the U.S. or whatever isn't the fact that not much scoring is involved, but that fact that one person can so utterly change the outcome of the game. Everyone knows who that person is. People in the U.S. are used to instant replay to measure things like whether a ball is in play or not at the very minimum. You know, like Lampard's obvious goal. The stakes are so much higher in soccer because there are less scoring chances. Red cards are ridiculous too. Putting the other team a man down because of a foul makes the game look cheap. 'Look I got hit in my face owww now we get to play a man up for 60 minutes!' Low rent stupidity. There's nothing wrong with soccer, it's the way the games are handled that makes it look like a third-world sport. The power the referees have is just too great, especially for someone who's usually 30 yards from the ball. You have some ref who's 40+ out there trying to chase down Brazilians. Right. Like that's ever gonna happen. There needs to be oversight. It would take all of 20-30 seconds to review an offside call. What comes around goes around doesn't mask the fact that the people that run soccer internationally can't get it right. Soccer's cheap, and it has nothing to do with the way the game is played.

Are you familiar with the Armando Galarraga affair? Are you familiar with the Hochuli rule? Because you seem to say many stupid things here. BTW, what is a Third World sport?.

Ain't nothing stupid about wanting the right call. If it was up to me, they'd have robots and gps systems calling balls and strikes, safe/out calls, holding, offsides calls, goals, and anything else that a human being could screw up. If someone 6,000 miles away can make a call by looking at it with a camera, why should you put up with someone screwing a team over because that's the way it's always been done. It ain't stupid, it's progressive. Like I said, there's nothing wrong with soccer, it's fifa that makes it into a third-world sport. Cheap. No technology. Hey maybe Sepp Blatter can apologize to you when you're team gets screwed. You'd probably like that.

Extend the concept to real life. Would you like living in such a world? (There even was a film on this subject)

C

Sports isn't real life. It's supposed to be the last objective endeavor. All other aspects of life are subjective. People don't want to deal with someone else's bias controlling something when they're watching sports. You watch them to get away from all that. You should win on merit. Ain't no such thing as luck. The more prepared you are, the more breaks go your way. You can look at a piece of art and make a judgement about it based on a certain knowledge, but taste is always in play. You know how you know when someone is good, or a team is good in sports? You look at the scoreboard, and when you have someone subjectively affecting an objective endeavor (it's objective because there are a set of rules both teams follow, and score is kept), it makes it less than ideal.

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Hey Ronaldo of all of you have been laughin at Spain!!!
Carlitos
Tenerife

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No football for the next 2 days. What to do now ?

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You could watch some soccer instead?

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You could watch some soccer instead?

Soccer ??? ... What's that ???

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No offside amigo, no doubt!!!
Where are you from?
I am not gonna say we are going to be champions, but step by step, let´s see..

Carlitos

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Football or soccer?

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If you look at the other quaterfinals (Germany-Argentina, Brasil - Holland), Spain is lucky to have an easy way...

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You could watch some soccer instead?

Soccer ??? ... What's that ???

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No offside amigo, no doubt!!!
Where are you from?
I am not gonna say we are going to be champions, but step by step, let´s see..

Carlitos

From Uruguay mi amigo.

Realmente piensas que luego del pase de taco, Villa no está fuera de juego? Han repetido la jugada sin poner más la línea con sombra agregada que indica la posición del jugador pero personalmente creo que estaba inhabilitado.

Considero que cuando los árbitros comenten errores en contra de nuestros intereses no amerita llorar y exponerlo permanentemente, pues luego se da lo contrario y no pedimos la anulación del partido. Recuerda España en el mundial pasado contra Corea. Así es el fútbol.

Aplicar la tecnología para controlar si un balón supera la línea de meta es totalmente lógico, otras cosas son más discutibles.

Mis saludos cordiales
Alejandro

My apologies for the others fans, we have to discuss this in Spanish.
Let's see what happen...