The latest in the Titi Henry hand ball saga is that Ireland are now lobbying to be allowed an extra spot in next summer's tournament. The fact that Blatter would even give this idea any legs by saying they discussed it is ridiculous. As I have stated in the past Ireland out played the French in Paris, the French goal should have been disallowed for a hand ball...however the referee did not see the transgression and therefore accorded the goal. That is life. There remains a human element to sports - a referee misses a hand ball, an off sides, gives 3 yellow cards to the same player, does not accord a goal that clearly crossed the line...
We see this in all sports - phantom tags in baseball called out, referees giving a team 5 downs, and countless other situations. Video replay is an answer to some of these issues, but at the end of the day part of sport is the fact humans are the judge of the rules and need to make rapid decisions, sometimes with less than perfect information. Teams suffer the consequences both good and bad. This will not and should not change...the human official should be allowed access to better technology in order to have greater access to information, but in the end it will still come down to human judgment. And that is a part of sports.
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