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Not keeping up with current events, 21Q? <link> |
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tsk, the ball went into the goal - doesn't really matter what happens next. it could have stood up and danced, it would still count as a goal. football is a funny old game... |
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oh well, there's another week of wimbledon to go. |
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What [po] said, also [21 Quest], the fact that it was caught on camera is of no relevance to the officials, as there is no usage of replay technology to help with decision making. |
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I assume that there exists a technology that can suitably determine the whereabouts of the ball - like 'Hawkeye' in the aforementioned Wimbledon. FIFA don't want it. |
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Video replays for an off-pitch official, who can then advise the referee exist - they are used to great effect in international rugby union.
FIFA don't want them. |
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Both means would be better than goal powder - so while I feel your sentiment, [simonj], I'm pretty sure: FIFA won't want it. |
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Perhaps tar and feathers. Applied liberally to the officials after they make such an incredibly boneheaded call, and they would see that it was, in fact, a goal. |
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Has anyone seen those giant soap bubble things? Why not
simply create a soap film over the mouth of goal? |
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MB thats genius - get those vuvuzela fans to keep blowing bubbles. |
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isn't wimbledon wonderfully quiet - just the odd grunt or two. |
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Haven't there already been too many bubbles burst at the World Cup? |
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We are perpetually disappointed that the so-called "Penalty Shoot-out" does not, in reality, involve the deployment of automatic firing small arms. |
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Watching overpaid pseudocelebrities being gratuitously mown down in a welter of blood, gore and assorted disassembled entrails in a Sam-Pekinpah-meets- Quentin-Trantino slaughterfest is about the only thing that would persuade us to take an interest in the wretched "sport". |
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This idea is superior to Hawkeye, instant replay, and other
newfangled technology because each goal would be heralded
by a dramatic white cloud. Like a new Pope. |
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... or a phosphorous grenade. |
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Couple of relevant aspects about scoring a goal:
To get the puff of white smoke, the football would have to touch the ground - which is not a condition of a goal being scored.
The ball just has to (completely) cross the line. This means that the bubble wall would have to be behind the goal-line exactly the diameter of the ball. |
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Other than that, they're both totally perfect. |
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[Jinbish] I was thinking the netting would be coated in chalk,
like a mason's plumb-line, so the ball wouldn't have to touch
the ground. |
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Fair enough, [mp], but it still misses the event where a ball crosses the line, mid-air, and then cleared out by a player in a spectacularly acrobatic but yet hilariously futile and desperate dive. |
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Would be next to impossible for a goal to be scored without hitting the ground within the netted area, as the net would remove all kinetic energy from the ball. |
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About that bubble film... |
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I once saw a science museum where bubbles were repeatedly stabbed by needles, but never popped. |
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