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Thierry thieves it... (enhanced) | 129 comments (129 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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Don't forget that soccer is played at all levels and age groups and it would only be viable to have "official" cameras at the top level.

And that is different from American Football, how?

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 09:58:48 AM EST
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American football has replay in college. More restrictive rules than pro, but still.

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by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 10:17:18 AM EST
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...adding: But college football is obviously a big thing in America, so it's viable.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 10:20:59 AM EST
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The argument deployed by FIFA against the deployment of Cameras is that they wish to make the refereeing identical at all levels of the game, so as sunday league play cannot afford cameras etc, then they wont apply it to Professional and international games.

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by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 10:21:14 AM EST
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Re: Thierry thieves it...(enhanced...) (4.00 / 2)

Sure, because each Sunday league game has 4 official referees involved, with someone calculating the length of extra time. Each game I ever played had that. Promise.

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by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 12:07:48 PM EST
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You must be a top player - any game I ever played barely had a referee - but then I don't have a left foot...

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 12:38:48 PM EST
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Re: Thierry thieves it...(enhanced...) (none / 1)

Mmm I thought that my sarcasm was blatant enough. Obviously not.

I've only occasionally had a neutral referee, and I played at a decent level as a keeper or -indeed- left-footed striker.
It's clear that the FIFA argument is spurious.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi

by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 01:35:22 PM EST
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