It's official - Blatter has lost the plot

[Rob]

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has controversially said that all football matches should have a result and that drawn games should be scrapped.
The chief of world football's governing body is no stranger to controversy and is always happy to speak his mind.

This time the Swede says that every single game of football across the globe should produce a result - ending the days of drawn games.

He has suggested using penalty shout-outs to decide matches that end all-square, but he is open to any other suggestions on how to end matches.

"Every game should have a winner," Blatter told German 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's latest brainstorm would change the face of football forever and his ideas are sure to be met with dubious reaction to say the least.

[The Mackem]

Can all the bodies not call for a vote or something because he really has lost the plot if he's said that. What was that thing he said about women playing in tight shorts to get higher interest?

[PureHatred]

Ending a game of football on penalty kicks is like ending a game of basketball on a free-throw contest. Pretty cheap. This is a piss poor idea.

Here in America, many writers have said tha the reason that hockey and "soccer" struggle is because Americans can't get behind the idea of ties. I think thats bullshit, though.

[MTR]

How did he become president? Seriously. I mean it was bad enough what he said about the women's game but now he wants to get rid of draws. Insane.

[MTR]

Where did you find the story by the way. I can't seem to find it.

[Wengerland]

Yeah RBF told me about this earlier.

Just :|!

[Wengerland]

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,1563,1204643,00.html

[Rob]

The sooner we get rid of him, the sooner we can have the old World Cup system back - World Cup in Europe every 8 years.

[MTR]

Thanks. I found it on yahoo just a few minutes ago.

[Wengerland]

Also if he thinks the new offside rule is easier then he should be sakced.

[Cactus Sid]

I think its a great idea























:shifty:

[Disturbed316]

lol what a spazz

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

Why dont they keep playing until somebody scores in overtime?

[Rob]

Why dont they keep playing until somebody scores in overtime?

Someone get this guy a cab back to America :roll:

:p

[NoJabbaNoBogRoll]

Blatter is a fool. He always has been.

[Dazz]

He wanted the World Cup every two years
He wants the Premiership reduced to 16 teams
He wants Women's football played in skimpy outfits
He wants the continents to take it in turns hosting the World Cup
He tries to get involved in the Ferdinand thing, when the F.A had already dealt with it
He then speaks of the repercussions if United appeal against the Ferdinand ban, yet nothing happened.

And now this. What a tit.

[packt up]

Yeah I was like :|.

[NoJabbaNoBogRoll]

http://www.derby.org/gaz/ramsnet/gallery/Fun/page1/Sepp_Blatter.jpg

[toxic rooster]

What do you mean, it's "official"?

He lost the plot years ago.

[Rob]

It was unofficial before. NOW it's official. :cool:

[toxic rooster]

But didn't he actually need to HAVE the plot at some point to justify losing it?

[Ricky]

What a prick.

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

Can somebody explain to me why having no ties is a big deal?

[toxic rooster]

This isn't baseball, sTiMa34 :mad:

[Ricky]

It's different in cup games because a winner HAS to be decided, but in league games the way I see it is that if you weren't good enough to beat the other team in 90 mins then you don't deserve to win, simple as that.

Of course that's only the start of it.

[The Duck]

Can somebody explain to me why having no ties is a big deal?

Football is a game of tactics. Played over a season in league competition, a draw (or a tie) earns both teams a point. Rather than simply 'winning' or 'losing', teams can play for a draw if the situation deem it necessary. In cup competitions, there MUST be a winner, which is where replays, extra-time and penalties come in. Taking out the concept of playing for a draw in league games or two-legged cup ties (such as in the Champions League) would diminish the game greatly, saturating it further, unecessarily.

[Mike the Metal Ed]

And of course the fact that Leicester would have like 15 points if there were no draws. :$

[Rob]

And of course the fact that Leicester would have like 15 points if there were no draws. :$


Or maybe you'd be challenging for Europe :p

[The Mask]

It's a horrible idea. penalties are a horrible way to settle anything, they might as well flip a coin at the end of the match.

[The Mackem]

Defeats should be abolished.

[Cactus Sid]

Liverpool would be bottom of the league if they had to take Penalties to settle games

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font face=verdana size=3 color="#ff6600">yeah, aswell as coming up with that new offside rule that no one understands he also refuses to let that retarded World Club Championship competition die. He goes on about reducing the premiership down to 16 teams because players already play too many games, perhaps we could just get rid of Micky Mouse competitions like that instead?

Its an aweful idea anyway, I can see it now, a team dominates the game for 89 minutes, the other team gets a goal against the run of play and then wins on penalties. Plus its absolutly gutting losing on penalties. :(

Its been fine for the past 150 odd years anyway, why change it now?

God that guy annoys me.</font>

[Rob]

<font face=verdana size=3 color="#ff6600">yeah, aswell as coming up with that new offside rule that no one understands he also refuses to let that retarded World Club Championship competition die. He goes on about reducing the premiership down to 16 teams because players already play too many games, perhaps we could just get rid of Micky Mouse competitions like that instead?

Its an aweful idea anyway, I can see it now, a team dominates the game for 89 minutes, the other team gets a goal against the run of play and then wins on penalties. Plus its absolutly gutting losing on penalties. :(

Its been fine for the past 150 odd years anyway, why change it now?

God that guy annoys me.</font>

:eek: Owen is pissed!

He is the man. :kiss: :D :y:

[Dazz]

It's a horrible idea. penalties are a horrible way to settle anything, they might as well flip a coin at the end of the match.

They used to do that back in the 50's or something.

And I also read today that before USA '94, Blatter had the genius idea of making it a game of four quarters. He gave the reason that American fans like intervals, and they normally have more then two halves, so they would prefer it to be quarters. :|

[Rob]

Imagine the days where you got knocked out of the world cup on the flip on a coin (and it actually happened). The riots now would be sooooo awesome.

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font face=verdana size=3 color="#ff6600">The guy just annoys me. His day planner must look like this:

Wake up
Breakfast
Come up with retarded ideas to introduce
Threaten to have England expelled from all tournaments for the next 50 years
Lunch
Come up with more stupid rule changes
Hype up how huge England's hooligan problem is and threaten them with expulsion from all major tournaments
Dinner
Note down some more things that arent broke and dont need fixing...and then come up with ways to fix them!
Stress that England WILL be expelled from all major tournaments if any of their fans sneeze or blink during the European championships
Bed
Dream about changes that can be made and throwing England out of tournaments.</font>

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

lol RBF is actually mad

[toxic rooster]

Oh, to be a Pompey fan :o

[Wengerland]

calm down Owen.:$

[Rob Ban Fan]

;):p

[road doggy dogg]

Haha what

Why not just make it like hockey. If there's a "draw", then play in overtime. The winning team gets 2 points for winning, and the losing team still gets 1 for getting into overtime to begin with.

Or do they use a different points system in soccer, I odn't know

[Wengerland]

At the minute it's 1 for a draw,3 for a win and 0 if you lose.

The 1 for getting to overtime doesn't sound bad,but there's quite often a case where 2 teams play and for your own teams sake you want a draw.I dunno,just sounds stupid to change it considering how long this system thing has been in use.

[Rob]

Haha what

Why not just make it like hockey. If there's a "draw", then play in overtime. The winning team gets 2 points for winning, and the losing team still gets 1 for getting into overtime to begin with.

Or do they use a different points system in soccer, I odn't know


Overtime isn't viable for one.

Plus the rest of the world isn't obsessed with not having things end in ties.

[road doggy dogg]

*shrug*

In the NHL if the game's a tie after regulation, they have a 5 minute overtime (during the regular season), and both teams get 1 point. If one team manages to score in that time, they get the win and 2 points. Otherwise, the game ends in a draw. Seems easy enough. But yeah there's probably like 80 year old men who would kill themselves if soccer tradition was broken, so for the sake of them just leave it as it is

[Rob]

It's not as much that. One example is that hockey players rotate constantly through out the game where as in football, you are stuck with 11 players and 3 subs. Players will tire a lot quicker and will struggle to complete seasons (they struggle enough now).

[The Mask]

yeah overtime isn't really viable in league fixtures, like a man utd/arsenal game. it'd go on forever waiting for someone to score in overtime. soccer is low scoring compared to nearly everything else out there so pulling out a winner every time seems like a stupid idea cause it'd going to kill players.

[Rob]

I'm all for the idea of getting rid of 2 legged games and replays but overtime because of draws in league games is a joke.

[The Mask]

i dunno, two legged games in europe and stuff seem fair, otherwise you'd have to play them on a neutral ground

[Rob]

Why? The FA cup isn't played in neutral draws in every round.

[Wengerland]

I would rather see the extra time used in the FA cup instead of replays.

[Mike the Metal Ed]

Why? The FA cup isn't played in neutral draws in every round.

But in domestic competitions, at least you're playing in the same country, unlike European matches.

[91]

Imagine the days where you got knocked out of the world cup on the flip on a coin (and it actually happened). The riots now would be sooooo awesome.

Just to correct you, that happened in European competitions (I remember Liverpool won like that in one tie back in the 60's), but it never happened in the World Cup. Before the war, a small handful of games (2 or 3) got decided on a replay. After that, not a single game in world cup history was tied after extra time until 1982, by which time the penalty shoot out had long been introduced.

Frankly penalties are much better than a coin toss - at least there's a footballing element to it, there's still some skill involved and they're entertaining as hell I find (providing I'm a neutral).

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font face=verdana size=3 color="#ff6600">yeah, penalties are great to watch when you're a neutral but otherwise its horrible :'(

Plus Portsmouth would be much worse off, since Shaka Hislop has saved like 1 penalty in his career :'(
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