Posted September 27, 200618 yr Blatter wants to end shoot-outs BBC Sport News Fifa president Sepp Blatter says future World Cup finals should not be decided by penalty shoot-outs. He said: "When it comes to the World Cup final it is passion, and when it goes to extra time it is a drama. "But when it comes to penalty kicks it is a tragedy. Football is a team sport and penalties is not a team, it is the individual." He said a replay or gradually deducting players in extra time would be a better solution. "We have four years or so, so I think we have time," Blatter told a Swiss Chamber of Commerce event in Zurich. "Maybe to replay the match if it's the final, you can't do that through the tournament because of lack of time. Maybe to take players away and play golden goal," Blatter said, adding that discussions would start soon. West Germany won the first penalty shoot-out in the tournament, beating France in the 1982 semi-final. Blatter also criticised the high salaries paid to footballers, calling them immoral, and said Fifa would take on the issue as clubs in some countries price spectators out of stadiums in order to pay huge wage bills. "It is not moral, it is definitely not good for our sport," he said. "They pay too much money to the players. There is an imbalance in their finances and they try to get money by all means." Do you think this is a good idea or not?
September 27, 200618 yr Gradually deducting players, err WTF? Penalty shoot-outs are the best way to decide it, a replay is stupid as you can play very well in the first match and play c**p in the reply, and you canm get injuries inbetween them. And the other idea is just awful.
September 27, 200618 yr Taking penalty shoot out out of the world cup. :huh: Well of course I hate them when my team plays in them but there by far the fairest way to decide football games. Deducting players. :huh: This guy really is losing it IMO.
September 28, 200618 yr Simple way would be after full time, just remove the goal keepers. Then let them play golden ball. That would have the elements of skill plus likely to generate goals and a result.
September 28, 200618 yr Author Simple way would be after full time, just remove the goal keepers. Then let them play golden ball. That would have the elements of skill plus likely to generate goals and a result. At the moment Liverpool FC would not notice the difference. :rofl:
September 28, 200618 yr About time they tackled the high wages that are demanded by footballers. :mellow:
September 28, 200618 yr Well considering Ashley Cole thinks £55,000 a week to play a football match about once maybe twice a week for about 10months of the year is insulting then footballers really should have a maximum they can earn. Most normal people don't even come close to earning that in a year maybe even two or three.
September 29, 200618 yr yet another barmy idea from the King of Anti-England You think he came up with this just to p*** off you English??? :lol: :lol: Dont be paranoid.... He's spot on in the second part though, players ARE given way too much money and the whole thing is just way too commercialised now, it hardly even qualifies as 'sport' anymore, such is the amount of Showbiz that has been injected into it... Working Class fans (and it is in the Working Classes where football has its historical roots...) are being priced out of the game, the closest that the vast majority of real fans can get to seeing a Premiership team now is on Sky Sports on a big screen in the local pub....
September 29, 200618 yr Well considering Ashley Cole thinks £55,000 a week to play a football match about once maybe twice a week for about 10months of the year is insulting then footballers really should have a maximum they can earn. Most normal people don't even come close to earning that in a year maybe even two or three. But why would you stay for £55k a week when you know you can move to another part of the same city you live in for a damn site more? Yes, wages are ludicris(sp) but it's not really their fault. It's the clubs that are to blame. I remember an interview with Seth Johnson's agent. He said when he moved from Derby to Leeds they were going to ask for 14k a week. Leeds came and offfered 30k straight away. You're not going to say no are you?
September 29, 200618 yr Author Slightly :offtopic: How many Man Utd fans does it take to change a lightbulb? Answer: Five ........ ........ one to change the lightbulb; one to cheer on the person changing the lightbulb; one to buy all of the souvenir programme, various republica lightbulbs & merchandise; one to mouth off about how the f***in cheating Scouse bast*rds aren't as good at changing the lightbulb; & one to drive the others back home to Kent.
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