Yes, instant replay should be introduced to soccer. That would give time to have a commercial before and after the replay was shown! :)

By the way I worked at Ampex Corporation and we invented things like video tape recording and instant replay. Ah for the good old days! :)



>>>>>You wait. If we don't win it this year it'll be from such a decision, and we'll end up losing out on the old penalty shoot-out.
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>>>England? Win it? Whith what? They sucked big time. The only reason they won was a good shot from Beckham and a galie that was not positioned properly and should have studied Beckham expertise in those types of shots and be more prepared. IMHO they did not deserve the win.
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>>Nonsense! Admitted, England didn't play well the 1st half but the 2nd they were great. Several shots were on target but were saved.
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>>Deserve it or no, it's not always that England manage to get through the group stage without relying on such-and-such losing or whatever. Tournaments in the past they HAVE looked like deserving to win but have been robbed by crap refs and/or linesmen (ARs). So maybe it's our turn to play rubbish but scrape through to lifting the cup. After all, as you know, there have been so many bad decisions this tournament (and that's WITHOUT allowing a man to stay on with 3 yellow cards against him!)
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>>You never know, ENgland teams in the past have struggled in the earlier stages but shone in the later, only to be shafted by cheats and/or bad refereeing.
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>>I was rooting for plucky Australia (dreams of an England-Australia "Test Match" final) and the result WAS a travesty. It's well time that the tyranny of the "ref's decision is final" (a rule set up before TV) was amended to allow viewing of TV footage in cases of disputed decisions. It's far too unfair that a team can lose because one man is blind, or stupid, or too stubborn to retract his knee-jerk, unconsidered reaction.
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>I have also questioned the referee's call but would not for one instant consider it knee-jerk or unconsidered. If he had it in his mind to nefariously nudge Italy into the next round, he surely would have done it a more subtle way than a PK call in the 94th minute. He had to make the call right away. You can't wait -- wait even two seconds and play has moved on and it's too late. I'm sure he made the call the way he saw it.
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>That said, instant replay in the World Cup might not be a bad idea. It's contrary to the essential value of continuous play, and I'm sure fans around the world would scornfully count out the seconds of review time, but ultimately you want the call to be right.
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>I don't know if instant replay would have done any good yesterday. I watched it at least five times and still don't know whether it was a trip or a dive.