Someone in the #xna chat on efnet.org posted this picture and it was too good to pass up! Pretty much every sport has allowed technology to play some part in the decision making but FIFA seems pretty against it. Today I watched 2 terrible calls that could have been reversed, and should've been reversed, but they don't use replays or anything to help with their call making. The first one I watched was what should've been England's 2nd goal of their game vs Germany. As you can see in the picture above the ball clearly passed the line (well, not in the picture :P) but it wasn't called a goal. Then Argentina's 2nd goal was scored by someone who was 2+ yards offsides. That one caused a giant battle of words from both teams as they surrounded the referees as they discussed it.
Whatever their reason for not allowing technology to play a part things like these could be fixed in a matter of seconds by someone in a booth watching the game from above. The refs already use mics and such to communicate with each other so why not allow someone to chime in and reverse a call if needed?
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