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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 5217213" data-attributes="member: 1">With all due respect, the World Cup has been the biggest sporting event on the planet for decades despite the US's disinterest. The amount of money a team like ManU generates is stupendous. Having the yanks interested would be a bonus, but it really is not necessary.  The principle of "the game does not stop" makes the game play like it does. I agree that pausing it and reviewing decisions would result in a higher accuracy rate; but it would change the game. And, your own country aside, it cannot be denied that the formula works on a massive scale, and has done for decades. Viewing figures are in the billions, and the revenue is mind-bogglingly huge. A few million more viewers from America really isn't gonna make any difference. As for whether the call was right or not - it was right. Foul, whistle. And the ref is not required to stop and explain it. The game keeps going. The players don't get to stop playing. Sprinting for 90 minutes is an expensive skill to train them in! But it was a perfect storm of the right call being really unfortunate for the US team given the timing. It is unfortunate, and the US did lose out. ANd yes, that sucks, and I feel for you. Having been on the other end of similar situations, don't think I don't understand where you're coming from. But "change the way the game works" so the US might become interested? That's not gonna happen. People have been arguing for and against extra tech and so forth for decades, and this is just another minor data point. There are strong arguments both for and against it, and we're not going to come up with any new argument here on EN World which hasn't already been discussed endlessly for the last 50 years. "Americans finding a new way to hate soccer" is not "enormously damaging to the sport".  I understand the temptation to wish it were so, but the truth is it just frankly ain't.  If no American ever watched a football game again for the rest of eternity, football would still thrive immensely - as it always has done.</blockquote>

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