i enjoy the mistakes for the fact that it's one of the last analog games in an over-technologized world.
i love this game because it has so many unpredictable components, that all sum up to make every single game of soccer different from another.
all the hidden spitting at each other, the insulting, the hidden fouls nobody sees...the brawls, the offside goal that wasn't one, the given goal that was offside all the wembley goals scored in the history of soccer... it's what keeps it epic.
at least for me.
and for another matter a lot of players would have to admit that they've played pretty bad without any refs to blame.
and besides that "keeping the game the same in all leagues and countries" ain't my very own arguement, some FIFA official said it on TV a few weeks ago.
before that i never thought about it that way, but i can see his point.
if a big team gets their potential goal video checked, how can you simple refuse this to a small league?
soccer is played by the FIFA rules in almost all countries and leagues in the world.
THE SAME RULES.
if it's about fairness, why should any team or league be privileged then by getting video replay or a chipped ball?
simple because they can afford it?
"this might have been a goal, hard to say if you would play in the premier league you could have it video checked, but you ain't. so by my decision i'm giving it/ain't giving it - sorry".
that's even more unfair.
sooner or later your local pub team will put his money into video technology instead of youth programs, simple for the fact that "the others/the pros" have it.
to me that sounds more unfair than teams loosing games due to human failures or mistinterpretations of game situations.
fuck money that's no arguement, not at all.
and besides that all in all the refs did an excellent job for most of the part during this euro so far.
i'm taking it one step further: videotechnology would do to soccer what the berrics did to skateboarding. weaking it.
it's the same as it is in life, you have to live with wrong decisions.
but so does everybody from time to time, and that's what i call fair.