Pancake

And BANG you have shot dead any chance of any team ever scoring "on the break" as very time a ball is kicked anywhere near the goal line the ref will have the blow up and check a TV screen. In the Mendes example, Man Utd got the ball off Crroll and formed an attack at the Spurs goal within seconds. Not sure where you are going with the cheating line? No-one on this thread that is opposed to video technology on the GOAL LINE (after all, that is the title of the thread) has mentioned about condoning cheating. And how can "we" be affriad of a change when we are suggesting a perfectly acceptable 'change' that would still allow the natural flow of the fast paced modern game?

As has been pointed out on here, other sports that utilise a video/CGI replay system use it when the ball is out of play and play has been stopped. Take the examples linked to on Youtube above when Mendes 'scored' against Man Utd. The ball was over but Carroll collected it and bowled it out back in to play. Should the ref blow up and stop play there? But what i the team now in control of the ball are forming an attack on goal, should the ref stop play just so he can see a replay? Comparing football to start/stop games like tennis, cricket and even rugby isnt right. In all of those there is a nature break in play as part of the game when a video replay could be used. A simple chip in the ball and the goal line that would alert the officials is the easier and most elegant solution. As soon as the ball is over the line, a buz or beep is heard in the officials ear pieces. If the ball was active when it crossed the line (ie, the whistle hadn't already gone for any reason) then the ref can blow up without fear of incorrectly stopping the game and award the goal.

2-1 Portugal, like Deppo said.

Stealing indicates she isnt willing to be taken.

Rancid. A lot of Rancid. Too much Rancid in fact. I can now only hear in 3 chords and speak in a quasi-Nu Yoik accent even though Im from LA.

Bloody hell! Rooney should have been put down after the last game.

I have a feeling Bath Saint is associated with it in some way.

I find it odd that if someone else had started this thread (say SNSUN, Trousers or Eric) then it might have started a debate and a decent thread. Instead people once again read the user name and respond to that rather than reading the thread itself. Somethings never change.

TBF, you were claiming to be a S'afrcan the other day....

"Essential" - no VAT, "Luxury" - VAT. A simple way to avoid paying VAT (apart from being an employee of PFC) is to pull in your spending; or at least on items you pay VAT on.

Good stuff Trousers, now get yourself on Flickr...

Isn't the NHS exempt from the 25% cut though? Yes the staff may have a pay freeze (how many people do you know who have had a pay rise in hte last few years, public OR private?) but that shouldn't signal a huge downturn in the efficiency.

This. I jumped ship 2 months ago from an IT co. that supplied technical specialists, hardware and software to gov. dept. Glad I moved now.

Weird ****.

Sorry for the silliness of my other post. Is this when you phone a company?

Ring noise? A fart you mean?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/downotfarm/football/fra-rsa.jpg

Is there something in the title Im meant to "get", coz I aint...

Uraguay score too, come on!

I'd rather poke my eyes out that get that over priced, no connectivity poc! Thanks skintsaint.

Thinking of getting my wife a netbook as the laptop is on it's way out and she only needs it for email, web and the odd doc/spreadsheet. Anyone here had any dealig with Windows 7 Starter? I need to know if I'll be ableto map a drive on the netbook to allow read/write to a share on the home pc via the wireless. I do this at the moment from the laptop, so I assume I would be able to do it - just not had any dealings with netbooks and wanted to double check.

2-0, Slovenia through....

Quality free kick and excellent save just there.

Slovenia go 1 up.

All eyes on the game.