What’s the current per-goal rate for FIFA these days? Is it in dollars or Euros?
Too bad the US lost to Ghana. That meant we weren’t available to swoop in at halftime and help England beat Germany.
We called it Girls Football when I was in School, Who Cares.
From what I’ve seen, refs have had a hand in determining the outcome of about 20% or more of the World Cup games. The officiating is terrible for a varietyof reasons. Bring in instant replay on goals....
The sideline tussling occurred because the stadium jumbotron showed the replay immediately and everyone, including the referees, knew it was a blown call.
The on field refs were screwed at that point because they would have caught hell from FIFA if they changed the call.
All FIFA is doing at this point is feuling the assumption that with video replay it would be harder to 'fix' the games.
Fixed...
I'm not a soccer "fan". I enjoy watching the World Cup but otherwise don't care. I try not to run down the game that is the most popular in the world. But to not use replay or a zillion other technologies to simply get things like goals right in order to spare tradition is just stupid. I can see not using replay for offsides as it would slow the game down but for goals, that are typically very infrequent, is asinine. Get the call right. The entire world knows that call was flat blown. It might not have made a difference in the end but it would have certainly changed the complexion of the game. England spent the beginning of the second half pressing trying to tie it up which lead to the counter-attack goals by Germany. It would have been entirely different if it had been 2:2.
Oh, and the floppers (like that joker from Ghana who had to be carried off on a stretcher) need to be red carded. Or executed.
Even that bastion of conservatism, Wimbledon, has replay. It’s the 21st Century already. You need to get the call right.
If they don’t want replay, then put some sort of mechanism in the goal that will let the blind refs know that the ball has crossed the line.
Better referees, and stop using affirmative action by continent to pick the referees. If Howard Webb is the best ref, and he happens to ref an England game, so be it.
Professor Briggs suffers the fate of Paul McCartney. Not very well reasoned, professor.
I see no problem with having something akin to the technology used in hockey that sets off the siren or the eagle-eye in tennis. The game wouldn’t even have to be slowed down. The technology would instantly tell the ref.
I oppose replays for other events such as fouls or offside because they’d slow things down but for something as important and simple as figuring out whether or not the ball crossed the line I see no reason not to. It wouldn’t affect the pace of play at all.
Don't want replay technology? Add two end-line officials responsible strictly for goals and corner/GK calls. Especially in major tournaments, a la the MLB baseball playoffs where they use foul line umps in the outfield.
(Besides, you can always give them some snazzy uniforms ;) 
A computer chip and a transmitter inside the ball has been tested and will be implemented sooner or later. Hey, if they can do that with shopping carts they can Shirley do it with futbol!