Bloom Blog» World Cup http://www.bloomagency.co.uk/blog Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:31:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Time for replay technology Herr Blatter! http://www.bloomagency.co.uk/blog/musings/time-for-technology-herr-blatter/ http://www.bloomagency.co.uk/blog/musings/time-for-technology-herr-blatter/#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:14:39 +0000 Brian Wadsworth http://www.bloomagency.co.uk/blog/?p=950 Continue reading →]]> England World cup exitOne wonders why one, aged old man is allowed to stand in the way of progress and not use technology for the good of the game. Thats not a question … its meant to be rhetorical!
Almost every other major sport uses it to advantage, yet Herr Blatter refuses to yield. It seems that social responsibility and governance has no part to play in FIFA?
But then I assume that IF the technology was deployed, there would be no room for such blatant “human error”!
Yes, I know, thats an emotional reaction to yesterdays bloopers by officials in the England World Cup game, but the time has come for change.
Whislt I’m on the subject of Herr B … WHY do we have to have a new world cup ball every tournament; other than for Adidas (and others?) to make more money? AND WHY did the Germans have a whole season to play with the ‘new’ ball to their advantage?? Could that have had an impact on yesterdays result?

Well ….. 3 blogs on the same (similar) topic now in 30 mins …. I feel much better … (NOT!). But at least I’ve vented my spleen!

]]> http://www.bloomagency.co.uk/blog/musings/time-for-technology-herr-blatter/feed/ 0 An Alternative view on World Cup exit http://www.bloomagency.co.uk/blog/musings/an-alternative-view-on-wc-exit/ http://www.bloomagency.co.uk/blog/musings/an-alternative-view-on-wc-exit/#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:08:08 +0000 Brian Wadsworth http://www.bloomagency.co.uk/blog/?p=948 Continue reading →]]> brian1An astute observation by a legendary All Black captain and tough second rower, Colin Meads, once stated that “you never beat the Welsh … you only score more points”! being welsh, this sets the tone for my latest blog ….
After ‘our’ demise from the World Cup over the weekend and in response to the knee jerk emotional reaction from ‘our’ media, I thought I’d present a less emotional perspective; even if equally biased?!
The facts of the game are, England shaded the match stats having more possession, more shots on goal and more corners than Germany; even though we played poorly and made the Germans look a much better team than I think they are. We gifted the Germans 3 if not 4 school boy error goals, had a perfectly good goal amazingly disallowed (more on that later!) and had as many good chances to score as Germany. Yet we lost 4-1. Thats life. Why all this media frenzy for the head of Capello? Its the players that didnt turn up. I’m sure they were motivated and wanted to win; they just didnt play as a team … thats where any inquest should foucs. Maybe Terry trying to keep hold of the Captaincy should be investigated; he should certainly learn that humility is part of leadership, should be part of that inquest.
Capello and his management team must also take their share of the blame but we should remember that even Alex Ferguson started at Man U with a couple of bad seasons yet look how he turned out. We also had an excellent WC qualifying run. The xenophobia that always erumpts from so called experts in the sports media is purely emotional claptrap. They couldn’t wait to take the head of Sven and that dumped us with the Max Clifford preened, teeth whitened, hair powdered, umbrella carrying Steve Mclaren! Lets not keep on repeating mistakes and show some balanced maturity ….. for a change!

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