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Jackie De Burca
As if one vital judgement mistake was not enough in the final 16 of the 2010 Football World Cup match of England v Germany, FIFA came up trumps and dashed Mexico's hopes against Argentina with a horrible off side goal being allowed. England player Frank Lampard who scored the goal which was denied, calls for goal-line technology. He said that before the beginning of the World Cup they were told about a million different rule changes that in reality hardly affect the game but the big one which affects the game today hasn't been brought in. When Lampard scored the goal which was denied, England were 2-1 down when his shot hit the bar and then dropped down well over the line, as TV replays confirmed. Lampard said that it certainly affected their game which many would agree was not strong to begin with. Nonetheless these types of bad calls by FIFA leave an unsatisfactory feeling of limbo in the air and regardless of how teams were playing beforehand for many of us make the result of a match null and void. In the case of Mexico, the game was goalless, when Carlos Tevez who was yards offside scored a goal from a play from Lionel Messi. The mistake was easily confirmed when the incident was replayed on the big screen of the stadium just after the goal had been awarded. Mexico had been the stronger team up to that point in the match. The Mexican coach Javier Aguirre said that the mistake made by FIFA officials had ruined years of hard preparation in a few short seconds. About the issue of goal-line technology and video replay, just after the handball of Thierry Henry, that qualified France against Ireland for the World Cup, FIFA general secretary, Jerome Valcke said: "Technology should not enter into the game, it was a clear statement made by the majority of the IFAB," added Valcke. "Let's keep the game of football as it is." Harry Redknapp, the Tottenham boss said FIFA President Sepp Blatter should be embarrassed and made the point: "In the modern world we've got technology, let's use it." Ironically the 74 year old Seth Blatter has embraced modern technology in other ways, such as signing up to Twitter just before the Football World Cup 2010 began. Then he regularly began tweeting his views on the world game and keeping fans up to date on his day to day movements. Blatter on Twitter shows that he is an old dog well capable of learning new tricks with tweets which have been entertaining enough. However his tweets have been non-existent since the FIFA football fiasco of Black World Cup Sunday, 27th June 2010. One website, STV Sport, rather kindly surmised that they visualised Seth wandering around desperately looking for a charger for a Nokia N95, as his phone ran out of battery just before the England v Germany match. Naturally this left him unable to visit Twitter-ville!
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