Comments on: World Cup 2010: Semi Finals http://www.noelinho.org/2010/07/06/world-cup-2010-semi-finals/ Noel Slevin - An Anagram Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:47:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Noelinho http://www.noelinho.org/2010/07/06/world-cup-2010-semi-finals/comment-page-1/#comment-224 Noelinho Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:42:09 +0000 http://www.noelinho.org/?p=235#comment-224 As do I, but the rules don't do anything to put people off handling the ball on the goal line. Allow referees to be able to give penalty goals and the situation goes away, but whilst that isn't in the ruless, I find it hard to blamer anyone for not exploiting that. As do I, but the rules don’t do anything to put people off handling the ball on the goal line. Allow referees to be able to give penalty goals and the situation goes away, but whilst that isn’t in the ruless, I find it hard to blamer anyone for not exploiting that.

]]> By: mrben http://www.noelinho.org/2010/07/06/world-cup-2010-semi-finals/comment-page-1/#comment-223 mrben Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:39:06 +0000 http://www.noelinho.org/?p=235#comment-223 Firstly, predictions. You're wrong. Well, partly. Netherlands will get through, although I suspect it'll be more like 1-0 than 2-1. Spain will beat Germany, though. As for the handball, I refuse to accept that we should just accept cheating, in any format, in any sport. Yes, the point of competing is to win. But if that winning is at the cost of the rules of the game, then it is no victory at all. I think it's sad that, in a situation like that of Ghana, that the referee can't award a 'penalty goal' like in rugby, but rather only a penalty which can be (and was) missed, but I accept that the rules indicate a penalty. Where cheating becomes regarded as strategy, we are essentially saying that rulebreaking is part of the game, and that we are only worried about whether we get caught. I deplore this, and wish it had no part in our game. Firstly, predictions. You’re wrong. Well, partly. Netherlands will get through, although I suspect it’ll be more like 1-0 than 2-1. Spain will beat Germany, though.

As for the handball, I refuse to accept that we should just accept cheating, in any format, in any sport. Yes, the point of competing is to win. But if that winning is at the cost of the rules of the game, then it is no victory at all. I think it’s sad that, in a situation like that of Ghana, that the referee can’t award a ‘penalty goal’ like in rugby, but rather only a penalty which can be (and was) missed, but I accept that the rules indicate a penalty.

Where cheating becomes regarded as strategy, we are essentially saying that rulebreaking is part of the game, and that we are only worried about whether we get caught. I deplore this, and wish it had no part in our game.

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