Blatter's stupidest comment yet!!

[amacpher]

Wants to scrap draws:

http://www.dailysoccer.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1949

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has

proposed scrapping draws in soccer, saying every game should

have a winner.

In an idea that would revolutionise the world´s most popular

sport if adopted, Blatter suggested that matches should be

decided by a penalty shoot-out in the case of a draw.

´Every game should have a winner,´ Blatter told German

sports agency SID.

´When you play cards or any other game, there´s always a

winner and a loser. We should have the courage to introduce a

final decision in every game of football.´

Blatter said the best solution would be penalties but added

that he would study any other proposal.

´Penalties remain the best way to decide a game in the case

of a draw but if anybody has a better idea, I am ready to listen

to it,´ he said.

´A game is about emotions. There is passion. It can be

dramatic. At the end of it it´s almost always a tragedy.

´We can´t be satisfied with draws. (Modern Olympic Games ()

founder) Pierre de Coubertin has said that the important thing

was to take part, not to win.

´That´s not true. In life you have a goal and in sport, too,

you have a goal which you want to achieve.´

EXTRA TIME

Blatter said he did not like the principle of extra time,

which has led to many dramatic moments over the years.

´The fact that there is a duel over two games which is then

decided after extra time is not quite fair,´ he said.

´After 90 minutes of the return leg, the tie should go

straight into penalties. Extra time is like a second home game

for the home team.´

Soccer´s law-making International Board decided in February

to scrap both Golden Goals and Silver Goals to end drawn matches

in finals of major competitions and to revert to extra time and

then penalties.

The FIFA president also reaffirmed that he was against the

introduction of video or any other technical device to help

referees make controversial decisions.

´As long as I live there will be no technical help (for

referees),´ he said.

´You have to live with the uncertainty of the game and the

mistakes of the referee. I don´t ever want to see television

cameras decide whether it was an offside or if the foul occurred

inside or outside the box.´

Blatter, whose mandate expires in 2007, did not rule out

seeking a third term and suggested Franz Beckenbauer should run

for the presidency of UEFA.

´His job as president of the 2006 World Cup (in Germany)

ends after the finals,´ Blatter said of Beckenbauer. ´Then will

come the vote for the UEFA presidency. I believe he should run

for that, even if Michel Platini has ambitions.

´I believe those who come from football should have a say in

football.´

[Jarrek]

Stupid idea.

[Free kick]

His quote: " Penalties remain the best way to decide a game in the case

of a draw but if anybody has a better idea, I am ready to listen

to it,´ he said."""

reponse: Then why bother playing the 90 minutes in the first place. Skip the 90 mins and go straight to penalties. Afterall, if he gets his way then you will see alot of teams with inferior talent playes tactics to stall the game and kill the clock for 90 minutes in order to get to the penalties whereby it then becomes crap shoot or coin flip. Thats what PK's are really in soccer; a crap shoot. Because you know that if you a really inferior team or playing poorly, your chances of winning are less than 50-50 but you get to pk's it now 50-50.

As far as a better Idea, I have always like the notion of adding the numbers of "corner kick awarded" into the equation. The team that gets the most corners is almost always the team that is most industious, taking initiative and in control of the game (ie.: the better team ). Why not use that instead.

Yup without a doubt his dumbest insight to date.

[SABuffalo786]

MLS-9 years ahead of the world.

[mattbin]

quote:We can´t be satisfied with draws. (Modern Olympic Games founder) Pierre de Coubertin has said that the important thing was to take part, not to win.

That´s not true. In life you have a goal and in sport, too, you have a goal which you want to achieve.

I'm kind of confused. Why is Sepp quoting de Coubertin just to trash him?

I suppose any quotes from Jules Rimet about sportsmanship or the good of the game just didn't come to mind as quickly. Pity.

Allez les Rouges,

M@

P.S. Speaking of which, anyone care to speculate on what Blatter will want to change the phrase "for the good of the game" to?

[canadiankick97]

And Blatter wants to run for a third term.....?

[Cheeta]

Further proof cousins shouldn't marry.

[amacpher]

Blatter's Suggestion gets Red Card from Media

http://www.dailysoccer.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1972

Media mock Blatter's suggestion to scrap draws

FIFA president Sepp Blatter´s

suggestion to do away with draws in soccer has been met with

derision by the media and questioned by a senior colleague.

The head of soccer´s world governing body said every game

should have a winner and matches should be decided by a penalty

shoot-out in the case of a draw.

Argentine Football Association president Julio Grondona, a

FIFA vice-president, said Blatter must have made the suggestion

in ´a moment of euphoria.´

Grondona, 72, told La Red radio station: ´Blatter gives lots

of press conferences and at times he has nothing to say. We are

not in the business of changing something that works.

´He must have been speaking in a moment of euphoria.´

Germany´s top-selling daily Bild put Blatter on Wednesday´s

front page in its traditional winner/loser section. The FIFA

president was the loser of the day.

´What´s so wrong about a fair draw?´ wrote Bild. ´This

proposal deserves a red card.´

Both Bild and German soccer magazine Kicker asked visitors

of their websites to vote for or against the proposal.

On its website Bild listed two other recent Blatter ideas,

scrapping summer breaks and increasing the number of teams at

World Cups to 36, saying both had been rejected. Bild also

mocked Blatter for ruling on such matters as football shirts and

goal celebrations.

Britain´s Daily Mail said: ´Are these the well thought out

ideas to revolutionise the world´s game or the mutterings of a

man who has been in office too long for his -- and football´s --

own good?´ The Mail also ridiculed a number of Blatter´s previous

ideas, such as playing four quarters instead of two halves,

having a World Cup every two years and the wearing of sexier

attire in the women´s game to attract more television viewers.

´Football has been listening to the 68-year-old Blatter --

and his stranger than fiction ideas -- for far too long.´

The paper said they were theories which, were they ever

put into practice, would ´turn the Beautiful Game into instant

chaos.´

In The Times, Blatter´s latest idea was seen as a way of

pandering to the American market.

´The Americans may have outlawed the draw in their own

sports. It doesn´t follow that messing up football will make it

sexy to America.´ England´s Football Association declined to comment on

Blatter´s suggestion when contacted by

[beachesl]

Well, considering that the International Football Board rejected most of Bladder's proposals (including the forced institutionalizing of the Golden Goal) to the unalterable (unless one operates in the nether regions out of the range of Zurich radar, like the A-League) Laws of Soccer (guess we have to give the Brits some credit after all, darn it) at the end of February, I don't think we need worry much about such malodorous musings.

I like the Argie's euphemism for Bladder's latest discharge: "Euphoria"

:) . Okay, Cheetah, ready to interview that poor fly again?