More goal technology needed

 

On Friday the 13. June, the second match at Fifa world cup 2014, there was approximately played 30 minutes and Giovanni dos Santos had just have his second goal annulled for offside in the match against Cameroon at 0-0. But pictures on TV clearly showed that the lines referee with the waving flag was completely wrong.

Giovanni dos Santos was very frustrated. The little Mexican in his green shirt, shook his head and smashed his fist in the air and then shouted a series of insult to the line referee.

Referees has made serious mistakes at Fifa world cup 2014, and a demand for more use of TV at top matches is being made. But the guardians of the soccer law is an old and very conservative British group, who hate changes and want to protect the beautiful game.

More technology as a help to the referees is needed it is easy to see how a refree can affect the match in a very negative way when they whistle a wrong offside. Or gives away a penalty or gives a red or yellow card without no apparent reason.

When a referee makes mistakes it can cost medals,glory or millions of euro. Large part of the soccer people now demands more TV aid.Fifa world cup in Brazil is the first time ever that video technology solves matters of doubt , where it is impossible for the eye to see if the ball has crossed the line or not.
President of Fifa, Sepp Blatter, is open and positive for the use of more TV pictures during matches.
 »Today there are many matches on TV, and we have 34 cameras, so it is obvious what has happened. Why not give the manager 2 possibilities during the match to challenge the referee,  If a manager disagrees with a decision, he could ask for a TV view" said Blatter at a Fifa-congress before the world cup 2014, In spite the fact that he has been one of the biggest opponent to more tv aid.

Until now an ancient lodge, named International Football Association Board, has been very negative against changes of the rules.The lodge is also known as Ifab. Most of the members of Ifab are British and they see themselves a guardians of the rules, and are very skeptic to change the rules.

In 1863 The Football Association (FA) was founded at Freemasons Tavern and the sports first 13 official rules was written down. But the game had spread in Great Britain , but with different rules in Scotland,Eire and England there was a demand for regulations of the rules.

It all began 128 years ago on Wednesday 2. june 1886.The adress where it happened was Holborn Viaduct 51, a kilometer north of the Thames. The English football association had moved their headquarters in 1885. Chairman sir Francis Marindin had invited his british friends from Scotland, Wales and Ireland to discuss the future of the beautiful game and here the International Football Association Board – Ifab was founded.

Each association came with two delegates who loved soccer and wished that a superiour lodge should protect the beautiful game.

They decided to be the guardians of soccer. It was the simple rules and that the game was easy to understand, so they decided that it should remain that way.
Ifab decided that the 8 delegates should discuss all changes and that everybody should agree before any changes of the rules was made.

In the start of the 20th century small changes were made to improve the game:

1913: at a Fifa congress in Copenhagen, it was agreed , that the 24 football associations in the world union should have a seat in the Ifab-lodge. They got two delegates just like each of the british nations. Ifab made a change to the rules, that eight out of ten votes could change the rules.

1958 Fifa got 4 delegates, each of the British associations has one delegate, and a 75% of all the votes to make a change to soccer rules.

All of Fifa’s 209 members kan suggest changes, but it is the Ifab-lodge who has the power to validate the changes.
Most of the things that Ifab has to decide is details like: logos on corner flag, allowed colors of therm underwear, banning of commercials on the grounds grass.

Through the lodges 128 years major changes have been made, but thorough debate and thorough testing have resulted in decisions which have been made to make the beautiful game run smoother and better.
And lately installed goal technology, which is big change to the usual supreme power of the refree.

It took several years discussion before Ifab decided to install help to judge if the ball has crossed the line or not. It happened when a player was cheated for a goal at a world cup championship. The victim was English. In South Africa Fifa world cup soccer 2010 Frank Lampard to 2-2 against Germany – but the referee did not see that the ball had crossed the line and canceled the goal and England lost 4-1. Ifab started different experiments and tests before goal line technology was allowed in 2012 og finally introduced at Brazil 2014.

It is these controversial situations that demand action being taken.

»I am not a fan of introducing something, that interupts how the game flow. There is a demand for more discussions, but one should never underestimate the power of the circumstances  – If a lot of faults are made during the world cup, then can this suggestion really gain momentum«, said the Englishman Alex Horne, Ifab member and FA-secretary.