| SecondWar said: As for your second point, well that’s how people felt about things like goal-line technology and VAR (I realise the latter isn’t the most popular atm). The penalty goals concept should only be in clear instances where a goal would have categorically been scored if the opposing player didn’t cheat (ie the Suarez incident), not with a basic foul in the penalty area. You are removing the incentive to cheat. That is hardly going to ‘kill football’. Moot point anyway as it’s not exactly an idea that has popular traction. Kinda why I’m left hoping Ghana can return the favour in the game tomorrow. |
It's definitely in 'kill football' territory for me, I view it the same as when Americans wanted goals from outside the box to be worth 2. A goal is a goal, either the ball crossed the line or it didn't, period.
It's also for exactly that reason that I've never seen a single person anywhere ever say they were against goal-line technology. It has been used for almost a decade now and I've never seen anyone complain about it, it's been effective, objective, and fast. That's the issue with VAR: it rarely is ever fast, and it's subjective as fuck. It was already pretty unpopular over the past few years in European competitions, yet somehow FIFA made it a million times worse in this World Cup. I'm still in favor of VAR existing, but it has to be used only when absolutely necessary, not these nonsense offsides like the one they gave against Croatia today.
