Liverpool FC Forum

So an English team wins a major competition and Sepp wants to change the rules. What a turd that man is. A disgrace to his position.

So what alternatives can we dream up?

Someone on the BBC website suggested 'Crossbar Challenge' - Liverpool would win everything.

Roger Red Hat » Fri May 25, 2012 11:00 am wrote:So an English team wins a major competition and Sepp wants to change the rules. What a turd that man is. A disgrace to his position.

So what alternatives can we dream up?

Someone on the BBC website suggested 'Crossbar Challenge' - Liverpool would win everything.

Imagine if it was based in shots on target in the event of draw after extra time? Actually I'd like to see that in just one game, it'd be entertaining. You'd have defenders going for goal inside their half.

Alternatively you could just play until it was decided ( golden goal). Can see some 4 hour games played at snails pace.

i dunno maybe its another case of blatters humour lost in translation.it was bekenbauer he asked so maybe franz was quoted somewhere moaning about something and this was the reply.
anyway penalties are the fairest way possible of deciding a match,the golden goal rule was imo harsh as if you had just started the extra time period and you conceed then its game over rather than having a chance to get it back and stay in the game.penalties are a last resort but at least you have a fair chance.
they used to flip a coin so maybe they could return to that or there is lots of other options like draw straws,i-ni me-ne mi-ni mo,tig or ro-sham-bo or maybe they should just leave it the way it is with good old penaltys.
somebody has to lose at the end of the day and id rather it to be on penaltys rather than some other silly option like a crossbar challenge.

red till i die!! » Fri May 25, 2012 11:31 am wrote:the golden goal rule was imo harsh as if you had just started the extra time period and you conceed then its game over

errr isn't that what they're trying to achieve? a way of settling a drawn game?

Play extra time without goalkeepers ! So simple its genius ! 

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Kharhaz » Fri May 25, 2012 1:28 pm wrote:Play extra time without goalkeepers ! So simple its genius ! 

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Roger Red Hat » Fri May 25, 2012 1:29 pm wrote:

red till i die!! » Fri May 25, 2012 11:31 am wrote:the golden goal rule was imo harsh as if you had just started the extra time period and you conceed then its game over

errr isn't that what they're trying to achieve? a way of settling a drawn game?

yes it is but is penalties already not a way of deciding that when teams cannot be separated after 120 mins.
the golden goal rule does exactly that(if a goal is indeed scored) and the other option is penalties so im not sure what your question is.
id much prefer to lose on penalties than a golden goal and would be devastated if i lost on something like a coin toss.
there is plenty of areas in football that could do with addressing and this isnt one of them.they should leave it alone.

penalty shootout is by far and away the most dramatic finale in any sport out there, and for that cretin to suggest they need changing fills me with an urge to punch a cuckoo clock. The man needs to retire pronto because he is walking punchline as we patiently count down the days to the fulfillment of his legacy as the man who sent a hundred professional footballers to their deaths in the scorching 40 degree heat of a World Cup in Qatar just to put an extra zero on his bank balance. Even the IOC laughed off the idea of holding an Olympics in the middle east, and they held an event in f*cking China - a country with a human rights record so bad that it would make Joseph Stalin utter the phrase "these guys are f*cking brutal!"

GO BACK TO YOUR TOBLERONE YOU ***** AND STOP RUINING FOOTBALL!! 

burjennio » Sat May 26, 2012 2:35 am wrote:penalty shootout is by far and away the most dramatic finale in any sport out there, and for that cretin to suggest they need changing fills me with an urge to punch a cuckoo clock. The man needs to retire pronto because he is walking punchline as we patiently count down the days to the fulfillment of his legacy as the man who sent a hundred professional footballers to their deaths in the scorching 40 degree heat of a World Cup in Qatar just to put an extra zero on his bank balance. Even the IOC laughed off the idea of holding an Olympics in the middle east, and they held an event in f*cking China - a country with a human rights record so bad that it would make Joseph Stalin utter the phrase "these guys are f*cking brutal!"

GO BACK TO YOUR TOBLERONE YOU ***** AND STOP RUINING FOOTBALL!! 

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Though did they have that thing in UK which we had junior football here in Oz many many many years ago where player had to dribble the ball from centre spot and try to beat the goalie in 30 seconds as alternative to penalties

Maybe instead of penalties they could make it - free kicks? 

Sepp Blatter is out of his mind!

i think it was beckenbauer doing the moaning originally and it`s probably just down to the frustration of losing such a big game when you`ve dominated most of it.
but beckenbauer wants to show a bit of the class and humility that bobby robson showed when his england side lost in the semi final of the world cup to beckenbauers germany side. robson didnt go running to his mates in FIFA when he lost.
penalties are a test of nerve and skill and as someone else has pointed out they do make a dramatic finale to a game, when you`ve just watched a penalty shootout you feel that there has been a conclusive ending, when i was watching those games with golden goals or whatever they were called i kept expecting them to play on or something, the game just didnt seem finished somehow.
beckenbauer would be better off asking his strikers like that mario gomez why he missed so many sitters during the game, that was the real reason bayern lost, it wasnt just the penalties that they didnt convert, they didnt convert their chances during the game either.

I'd decide games with a game of Twister, or maybe Top Trumps. If not, then i'd just leave it as it is.

laza » Sat May 26, 2012 6:12 am wrote:

burjennio » Sat May 26, 2012 2:35 am wrote:penalty shootout is by far and away the most dramatic finale in any sport out there, and for that cretin to suggest they need changing fills me with an urge to punch a cuckoo clock. The man needs to retire pronto because he is walking punchline as we patiently count down the days to the fulfillment of his legacy as the man who sent a hundred professional footballers to their deaths in the scorching 40 degree heat of a World Cup in Qatar just to put an extra zero on his bank balance. Even the IOC laughed off the idea of holding an Olympics in the middle east, and they held an event in f*cking China - a country with a human rights record so bad that it would make Joseph Stalin utter the phrase "these guys are f*cking brutal!"

GO BACK TO YOUR TOBLERONE YOU ***** AND STOP RUINING FOOTBALL!! 

+1


Though did they have that thing in UK which we had junior football here in Oz many many many years ago where player had to dribble the ball from centre spot and try to beat the goalie in 30 seconds as alternative to penalties

Isn't that what they do in hockey/ice hockey?