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As FIFA try to calm the goal-line technology controversy, UEFA's president has stepped in to stir it all up again.-----------------------------------------------------
These beaks sell-out the punters, they kowtow to Coca Cola, they out-price the big tournaments, they worship the soulless minted tourist that treat every World Cup finals in the same spoiled, unfeeling way he treats the Monaco Grand Prix, Wimbledon, Ascot or the flippin' Glastonbury festival and they continually ignore common sense and the common man in favour of clinging onto the udders of every cash cow they can clamp their sleazy, expensively bejewelled hands on. Yes indeed. Yes. Point made methinks. The game's "governing bodies" have have done little to earn that epithet over the decades. So, although we're usually the ones to suffer, and the men in national association blazer badges have more brass in their necks than an ornamental giraffe, it's always good to see FIFA and UEFA embarrassed.
Especially if that embarrassment takes place in the two most brutal ways possible: with perfect comic timing and in front of thousands of fans
Last season, 6th March 2010, on the day - the VERY DAY - FIFA declared goal-line technology was, for them and therefore us, a no-go, there arrived a perfect example of just how momentously stupid a decision that was. The event arrived behind the decree with the punctuality of a distinctly fastidious Teuton.
Within what felt like seconds of The International Football Association Board's official announcement that they had no plans to pursue the use of video evidence for goal-line decisions, Birmingham City were not awarded an FA Cup goal at Portsmouth when good old-fashioned TV cameras clearly demonstrated that big, white ball thing had gone beyond the big white line thing and stayed between the three big white stick things.
Two teams from the biggest league in the world, playing in the oldest competition in the world, under the gaze of around a dozen state-of-the-art video-recording machines - at least one of which was dead-on the goal-line whence that football crossed undetected by officialdom.
Comic genius. The game was being beamed out live around the country and so the hundreds of thousands watching in their armchairs knew Birmingam had scored.
Football grounds being as full of TV monitors as they are these days - even grounds as old as Fratton Park now have television in every concourse and corporate box - there should have been thousands in the four stands of the venue who also knew Alex McLeish's side had been denied a stone-wall goal. Everyone except the match officials at Portsmouth knew it.
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