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[Dance Inferno]

Euro 2012 |OT3| of thank god for the fifth official

 

[Neko Mimi Mode]

Euro 2012 |OT2| Hairline technology

 

[Wax Free Vanilla]

Has Walcott had a touch yet?

 

[mocolostrocolos]

Title? I am really lacking some creativity the past few days :/

Euro 2012 |OT| It's a Conspiracy!

 

[Blablurn]

lol tymo

 

[Error]

France against Spain could be good with all the talk from France about spanish sports and doping.

 

[Kinyou]

What about onside line technology

Two adorable robots trundling up and down the sides of the pitch firing a laser at each other

That sounds way too cute to actually work. Everyone would stare at the adorable robots.

 

[cube444]

France and England do not look impressive at all.

 

[Exterminieren]

Euro 2012 |OT2| Hairline technology

Winner winner chicken dinner.

 

[Arjen]

Euro 2012 of linesman sleeping on the job

 

[Jal]

Euro 2012 |OT2| of then it was robbing, now it is not because it was offside

fixed

 

[Bo-Locks]

Title? I am really lacking some creativity the past few days :/

Euro 2012 |OT2| of sixth officials caught ball watching

 

[Dark Schala]

Euro 2012 of linesman sleeping on the job

How can you blame them when they're refereeing Group D matches?

Euro 2012 |OT2| Hairline technology

This one's good.

 

[Nevasleep]

Euro 2012 |OT2| Hairline technology

Whoop!

 

[Cerebral Assassin]

But that does occasionally happen anyway. Implementing some goal-line tech wouldn't change that.

Why should one bad decision be overturned & not another?

 

[sneakypete]

Couldn't they just use another official in a video booth to review these types of calls? The robbed team could just have a designated player to clutch his face and roll about whilst the official makes the call.

 

[Dance Inferno]

Fifth official getting a wedgie.

 

[xbhaskarx]

Euro 2012 |OT2| Parker crawls into the next round

Euro 2012 |OT2| Hairline technology

One of these two...

 

[Arjen]

How can you blame them when they're refereeing Group D matches?

Thats the joke.jpg

 

[Saty]

How can i be expected to fully invest myself in the sports when i know how quickly and irrevocably the outcome is decided by stupid rules and not got enough referees?

 

[Jal]

Euro 2012 |OT2| Parker crawls into the next round

nice.

 

[Sky Chief]

What a douche

 

[xbhaskarx]

How can i be expected to fully invest myself in the sports when i know how quickly and irrevocably the outcome is decided by stupid rules and not got enough referees?

Unlike... which other sport? I guess bowling and maybe golf, can't think of any others. Certainly not any of the major team sports...

 

[Gareth Bale]

Euro 2012 |OT2| It was offside anyway

 

[Nevasleep]

How can i be expected to fully invest myself in the sports when i know how quickly and irrevocably the outcome is decided by stupid rules and not got enough referees?

Don't fully invest yourself then, enjoy the drama :lol

 

[Ape Gone Insane]

Parker should have been a rugby player.

 

[Kinyou]

Why should one bad decision be overturned & not another?

When there's some technology to prevent false offside/onside calls I would want to have it implemented as well.

 

[sneakypete]

Scott Parker to have nightmares from this game, the look of anguish on his face lols

 

[mocolostrocolos]

Euro 2012 |OT2| It was offside anyway bu-bu-bu-but handball

.

 

[EdibleExplosives]

Yes quality referees everywhere.

Yep, there's been quite a few bad decisions tonight.

 

[Hixx]

Disgusting Shevchenko. Tosser

 

[Divius]

Both games have been quite boring overall.

 

[Meier]

From ESPN:

Another French change as Giroud comes on for M'Vila and misses a free header from six yards with his first touch!

No wonder they're happy to sell him to Arsenal ASAP.. Giroud isn't helping his value this tournament. Missed quite a few seemingly easy ones.

 

[Dance Inferno]

You know the solution to all these bad calls is pretty low tech - have someone watching the replays and then radioing the referee to tell him whether to call offside or if the ball passed the goal line. They just don't want to implement it because CONTROVERSY.

 

[bud]

caaaaaarrrrrrroooooollllllll's sssssoooooooooooo ssssssssssssssllllllllllllooooooooooooooooowww

 

[AndyMoogle]

Lol was that a second hand ball from Sweden in the box?

That's not how the rules work. Just because it hits someone's hand, doesn't automatically make it a penalty.

 

[Oxx]

ASSASSIN SHEVA

 

[Cerebral Assassin]

When there's some technology to prevent false offside/onside calls I would want to have it implemented as well.

The tech exists, & would be fairly simple to apply.

 

[Fur_Q]

Euro 2012 |OT2| England Leapfrog France

 

[Grath]

You know the solution to all these bad calls is pretty low tech - have someone watching the replays and then radioing the referee to tell him whether to call offside or if the ball passed the goal line. They just don't want to implement it because CONTROVERSY.

What's the official reasoning for not doing this? Clearly it can't be 'controversy is good'... Is it too expensive for all 1st division matches?

 

[soepje]

Somewhat offtopic: But for the longest time the Kaiser Chiefs where singing about Rooney instead of Ruby.. I found it strange, but i thought it was just an English thing...

 

[Heshinsi]

It's the slippery slope argument, if the goal had been given die to goalline tech, then England would be aggrieved at an offside goal given against them.

They would then be told to shut the fuck up, cause there was a flagrant handball that earlier wasn't called on them. England can't have it both ways.

 

[xbhaskarx]

WTF on the ESPN feed did Ian Darke REALLY just say Parker "symbolizes England's warrior spirit"??

 

[Tea and Toast]

Scott Parker has some Max Payne face going on. Original Max Payne face that is.

 

[ConfusingJazz]

What's the official reasoning for not doing this? Clearly it can't be 'controversy is good'...

Some people gave me that line during WC 2010. I believe Blatter's line is that it's too expensive or something.

 

[BigDes]

What's the official reasoning for not doing this? Clearly it can't be 'controversy is good'... Is it too expensive for all 1st division matches?

Would break up the flow of the match apparently

You know like how it doesn't in Rugby

 

[Ape Gone Insane]

What's the official reasoning for not doing this? Clearly it can't be 'controversy is good'... Is it too expensive for all 1st division matches?

I think one of the reasons is it slows down gameplay/breaks the flow.

 

[Saty]

Unlike... which other sport? I guess bowling and maybe golf, can't think of any others. Certainly not any of the major team sports...

The impact bad calls have on football games is far greater than any other sports i watch.
Anyhow, all major tennis matches have hawk-eye on top of it a sports where a single point probably won't decide an entire match. Unlike football where one call can the be all and end all.
Milan would have probably won the league if Muntari's goal was allowed by the ref.

 

[wakajawaka]

Euro 2012 |OT2| of moar referees!

 

[gundamkyoukai]

Just got up , I expected to see France and England winning but it looks France is in some trouble .
With not allot of time left to save them self .

Edit just saw the goals thanks to sunhi gifs 1 awesome goal and the other one is funny as hell .