England vs Germany stirs the perennial debate

The whole world saw it, the whole world is talking about it and god knows when the media will stop hounding the topic. I am talking about the goal that was but still wasn’t in the England Germany game. A goal that has set all tongues wagging and all ears buzzing.

The question has been raised, a question that was perhaps pending for sometime now. The debatable question of introducing technology in the game. In this modern world where majority of the sports have bowed down and inducted technology as a problem solver. Football defies the norm and continues to be regulated by humans (Referees/linesmen).

It's a *******(starry affair) disgrace!

In times of controversy they are christened in much better terms as cheats/ a^^4&^&$/fu@#%@ or even disgrace (as one great footballer told us live on the camera) depending upon the enormity of the wrong decision.

But the basic reason why FIFA is apprehensive of the decision is because this will put the game in the bracket of sports like cricket, basketball, rugby, American football. All these sports have now lost their brisk pace that set them alive. Due to the indulgence of technology they are more of ‘start and stop’ sports.

If football follows suit then it will perhaps be more than just simple 90 minutes of the beautiful game. Moreover, won’t it be much more monotonous and mechanized when technology takes over, won’t it rob us off the future hand of gods, the phantom goals, the accidental head butts and the not so deliberate elbows in the faces ?

The only change that seems feasible is putting two more linesmen near goal line. This is a better alternative for technology because if technology comes in , the whole game will be revamped and that’s a certainity. Look at the example of cricket, first there were TV umpires for run out pertaining decisions …then slowly they came in for over stepping and boundary line decisions and now for every single decision they have to go up to the TV umpire with referrals coming in the picture. It has become waste of time; the whole rhythm of the game is disturbed.

Remember Garcia's ghost goal?

This has led to conservatism…umpires are hardly sure of any decision they make with the naked eye and are more than happy to let third umpire make the decision instead. Nobody wants to see football go down the ruins .

The decisions taken by refs are of great impact but ultimately it boils down to one thing: that no matter if a team is helped or forbidden by a wrong decision the team that is better for the 90 minutes wins. It’s inconsequential in the end, because if a team is really a winner then no matter what happens they have the will to overturn the effects and win, they are not perturbed, they are not dejected because they have the will to succeed.

In this case too England were an inferior team and the score line proves it. Perhaps a few English fans would agree with this but its a fact and they were also helped by one such decision in 66 and that was a WORLD CUP final too!

It’s known that these things are a matter of country’s pride and when a team loses the whole nation is dejected. Losing unfairly really leaves a bad taste in one’s mouth. But why do people fail to realize that it’s just a game. Human errors are part of the game and sometimes you are not on the receiving end and sometimes you are. Umpires are not the only ones who make mistakes, players have indulged in simulation and provocation of opponent but they get off the hook. Nobody cries technology for that?

This is what the linesman saw!

It’s always about bashing the officials and no one treats them right, one bad decision and you are out of the game and perhaps out of the world too. Football isn’t utopia and it must not be. These incidents create a lot of hullaballoo but have become part of the game, these provide bread and butter to journalists who just can’t stop discussing them and deep inside we all agree that we love such incidents because it gives us something to remember and talk about …no wonder maradona’s hand of god is still talked about.