An alternative to penalties after extra time

[ManxSeagull]

That'll be the guy who suggested 3pts for a win and abolished salary capping.

Great minds and all that.

Another Jimmy Hill idea:

Sky Sports pundit Jimmy Hill has conjured up an idea that he thinks will eradicate poor refereeing decisions from the game.

The former Fulham striker was incensed with Urs Meier's decision to rule out Sol Campbell's header during England's dramatic exit from Euro 2004 on Thursday.

The man who was largely responsible for the abolishment of the maximum wage wants to bring groundbreaking video evidence into football to bring the beautiful game into line with other sports, such as rugby league and cricket.

"I'm not saying, on the performance, England deserved to beat Portugal because it wasn't necessary in that kind of match," Hill told Sky Sports News.

"England scored the winning goal and were not allowed for it to register.

"It is so grossly unfair in my book that the referee can make a decision and no-one can appeal against it.

"What it has done is given birth to an idea I have. The captain of the team should have two opportunities in the course of a game to ask a decision to be referred to a camera, off court as it were, and, on that basis, you would make sure that it could never happen again.

"Portugal are still in Euro 2004 and England are out and that is grossly unfair because the referee was inopportune or, you could say, absolutely inaccurate.

"Look at it 100 times. When you see what has been going on and the referee allowing play to go on. No English player went up to commit an offence. Two or three jumped for a ball in different directions and one of them won it.

"I'm not arguing about the quality of the football, I'm arguing about the laws of the game and the way in which it's played. I want to see the football authorities doing something about it in the future."

Hill also had words of criticism for England's abysmal record in penalty shoot-outs.

"In absolute technical skill, our players are inferior to the best players in other teams," he opined. "Because our players, until recent years, are not trained from the year of seven as they have in other countries in Europe."

 

[Goring Gull]

The only reason we don't like penalties is we are reknownly useless at them.

How come every other nation can kick a ball straight into the bottom corner bar us?

Personally i like penalties good for the tension, just not good when you lose, but lets be honest Ashley Coles and maybe John Teryys we the only two half decent ones we took.