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Rugby World Cup 2015
An open letter to World Rugby.
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<blockquote data-quote="RoosTah" data-source="post: 766355" data-attributes="member: 12207"><p>I wonder about that... People talk about the influence of the referee in rugby, but to my mind in soccer it's far worse and things like the offside line are much less clear. </p><p></p><p>For all the bleating about unfair results in rugby, in soccer one refereeing decision really can decide the entire match in the most unfair ways. I've seen soccer matches where one side has dominated play but just been unable to find the back of the net, and then the other side will fluke a bit of decent field position, stage a Hollywood dive in the box and get a penalty kick to effectively win the game... </p><p></p><p>For all its faults at least in rugby penalty goals are worth less than the primary method of scoring. But with soccer's incredibly low scoring and intrinsically negative low contact nature, goals can be hard to come by and so getting a dud call that gifts you one is a much bigger deal in the context of the match and leads to a much higher number of obviously unfair results</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoosTah, post: 766355, member: 12207"] I wonder about that... People talk about the influence of the referee in rugby, but to my mind in soccer it's far worse and things like the offside line are much less clear. For all the bleating about unfair results in rugby, in soccer one refereeing decision really can decide the entire match in the most unfair ways. I've seen soccer matches where one side has dominated play but just been unable to find the back of the net, and then the other side will fluke a bit of decent field position, stage a Hollywood dive in the box and get a penalty kick to effectively win the game... For all its faults at least in rugby penalty goals are worth less than the primary method of scoring. But with soccer's incredibly low scoring and intrinsically negative low contact nature, goals can be hard to come by and so getting a dud call that gifts you one is a much bigger deal in the context of the match and leads to a much higher number of obviously unfair results [/QUOTE]
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