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Tue 11 Nov 2009Long past time for football to embrace video
ON RUGBY:Why on earth have it so that the only people in the dark are the ones who actually make the decisions?
THE CONCEPTS of cheating/bending the rules (dilute to taste) and use of video technology has, it seems, become quite topical in recent days. In the light of le main de Dieu, rugby union, rugby league, tennis, cricket, American Football and pretty much all sports bar tiddlywinks have been held up as examples for football to follow. And, it seems, for Sepp Blatter and Fifa, this is hard to swallow.
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