Forgive and forget?

At the risk of sounding whiny and repetitive, the biggest mistake in this world cup is the absence of video technology. A lot of the crucial goals I've seen in this world cup came about from handballs or offsides... and one of the goals wasn't even seen.
Mr Blatter and co need to make changes to "atone" for this.

Forgive and forget, truth and reconciliation, sackcloth and ashes, it’s all quite irrelevant as the league seasons will star up again, in Europe, at least in a few short weeks, players will go back to their teams and the fans will forget the WC completely, esp. this one if you’re an England and/or Italy supporter like me.
I can remember just 4 years ago, England goalie David James went by the name Calamity James, so inept was he perceived to be, but after poor old Butterfingers Green’s howler, he was hailed as a hero.
I can still remember (like a car crash, in desperate slow motion) Baggio’s disastrous missed penalty in the ’94 final shoot-out, but most Italians I know, having seen the current shower (with the exception of Pirlo) hark back to Baggio’s days with decidedly rose-tinted specs.
Breast beating and snivelling will serve no earthly good, the show, for that’s precisely what it is, must go on.

Suarez instinctively did what most players would do. He was given the maximum penalty according to the rules. Ghana was awarded a penalty which they missed. The game proceeded and Uruguay came out ahead. If you want to change the rules, change them ahead of the game and not pillory a player post game. That is not sportsmanlike.

Regarding the lack of fair play during the Cup, on the bright side of things, if you could say such a thing, this was not a World Cup to be remembered by the high quality of its teams and referees. I don’t think this will be a particularly noteworthy page of football history. To tell you the truth, the very next day after we were vanquished by Netherland’s team, the local media in Brazil was already focusing on the local leagues and other sports.

I think technology revealed more than our usual share of errors of judgement by referees during this year’s World Cup. Perhaps it is time FIFA incorporates this technology in service of the referees instead of trying to bar it from football matches.

How could any sensible person say that the increase in the number and the exaggeration in scale of dives has not tarnished the game? It has. This World Cup has seen just that. When you watch the game you want to see skill - passing, dribbling, shooting, control and goal scoring. You don't want to see players faking injury, handing the ball to prevent goals, flopping or diving. Even though it has been part of the game for a very long time, that also means that it's something that's been foul for just as long.

I think the way the rules of the game and of sportsmanship were abused during the FIFA World Cup 2010 only reflects the (lack of) moral standards by which Western Society is steering these days.

@1 Ibrahim in UK

Exactly: don't blame the referee, blame the FIFA who forces the referee to work with stone age tools only.

The worst world cup ever.
A total waste of time!

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Ben:

I am taking side of the view is lests forgive and forgot most of the minor mistakes in the World Cup 2010; And, review the huge blunders (mistakes) after the World Cup in committees....

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By way of forgiving England, it's worth noting the ENG scored twice as many goals against GER than all of GER's other opponents COMBINED; including the dis-allowed goal of course.

I submit that there should be NO forgiveness for Sepp Bladder. In addition to being a rabid neo-Luddite, he attempts in his about-face to limit improvements to "goal-line technology". How often do ENG 2010 & ENG 1966 situations arise? New systems should also be applied to check for offside goals, wrestling matches in penalty area, and diving. This will greatly advance the quality of and respect for referee decisions. The new rules can be applied at all levels of the game by allowing each level to opt out of any new technology if they so choose. Maybe this will happen, since Mr Bladders tenure expires in mid 2011. God forbid that he be re-elected.

i can forgive the Suarez handball, but the gloating from him and the glee he showed on camera had nothing to do with sportsmanlike behavior, at least where i come from, Pilar?

Funny how goal line technology only becomes a major issue after the world cup and not before. Countries should have put themselves together and expressed concern and applied pressure to FIFA before the World Cup. If the goal would have been counted in the Germany vs England match, nothing would have been said and other countries misfortune wouldn't have been of extreme concern to England. People need to get over the fact that England were beaten by a better team. 4-1 isn't a small goal margin, it's a major goal margin.
Football has improved over the years with higher security, changing of certain rules, first World Cup in Africa (2010) and Asia (2002) etc. I think this World Cup has been a great success ! Africa has been and still is a great host, all teams have been greeted wonderfully. It would be unfair to deem this World Cup a failure and if you do so then you can say that all World Cups have been failures because there will be always something to complain about.

"15. At 11:40am on 06 Jul 2010, ZephyrSong wrote:
Funny how goal line technology only becomes a major issue after the world cup and not before. Countries should have put themselves together and expressed concern and applied pressure to FIFA before the World Cup. If the goal would have been counted in the Germany vs England match, nothing would have been said and other countries misfortune wouldn't have been of extreme concern to England."

I don't know where you've lived for the past 10 years but I've been hearing the same calls for video technology in, during and after every tournament for years.

"I don't know where you've lived for the past 10 years but I've been hearing the same calls for video technology in, during and after every tournament for years."
No need for the bickering. Im not disputing the fact that it has been mentioned, but there wasnt enough pressure applied to FIFA. There are a lot of things that are always mentioned, but there wasnt enough concern expressed in my opinion. Now that several countries have seriously approached FIFA, Sepp Blatter is taking more notice.
Please refrain from unconstructive criticism.

I will forgive blatter if he can give one good reason why he has consistently refused the use of goal line technology