Football's shameful face

On the day of the Cricket World Cup final, there could not be more of a stark contrast between the excellent use of video technology in this sport and football's pathetic refusal to do anything to wipe out the routinely useless decisions that change both games and seasons. India and Sri Lanka are taking part in a great game of cricket and it is being supported by technology, in the same way that many other sports around the world have embraced technology for the better. Errors are reduced, although nothing is perfect, using technology sensibly is a massive improvement on what went on before, no one could deny this. On this same day Manchester United are helped on the road to coming back from 2-0 down against West Ham by some appalling refereeing decisions that surely would not have happened if football's corrupt authorities had bothered to introduced technology to assist the officials. Vidic somehow stayed on the field when he should not, Rooney scored from a free kick that never was after Noble had won the ball fairly, Rooney's and United's third came from an appalling penalty decision after a clearly accidental handball by Upson. Football is the richest game in the world, yet it still has not introduced technology in order to minimise error and make the game fairer for all, this is an absolute disgrace and frankly I am losing faith in the game that I love the most because of this stinking mess. FIFA are the chief culprits, a corrupt organisation that is completely unaccountable, one that persistently refuses to do anything that may make the game fairer. For this reason football currently stinks.

Chelsea victimised

The King JT is shocked at the transfer ban that has been imposed on the mighty CFC as a result of our alleged 'tapping up' of a young french player a few years back. One must assume that FIFA are deliberately picking on us because they just don't like us and are jealous of our success.

Why is only us that get fined for failing to control our players? Why do we keep having to defend ourselves against tapping up charges and pay fines for these offences? Why were Ballack and Drogba singled out last season for being a bit angry after losing a match, which incidentally was entirely the ref's fault? Why doesn't everybody love JT and why is he not yet Sir John Terry? Sometimes I can only assume that everyone else is jealous of our success. Come on the Chelse.