With the World Cup only days away,  Badderman, Bishy, Oensan and myself answer the following questions about England, The World Cup and the possibility of the World Cup returning to Africa.

So the questions we are answering are:

1. Who do you think will win the world cup?
2. What do you think to England’s chances?
3. Who do you think will be the surprise team to emerge from the groups?
4. Who do you think are the players to watch?
5. After the 2012 World Cup do you think there will be another African World Cup? Read the rest of this entry →

Technology – Do officials need technological help?

The Scutler Files, named after the former Old Man of the board and Wiggleville legend, Scutler, are going to be a series of articles posing questions from the ever changing and ever diverse world of football to several of the sites users to gain a broad range of opinion and to spark interesting debate amongst our forums.

So without further ado the first of this series of articles poses a question about a seemingly controversial subject within the game, Video Technology and its place in modern day football. I’m sure all of us can point to some incident over the past 12 to 18 months where the referee has got a decisive and game changing decision wrong.

Recently there seems to have been more and more support from the top clubs, managers and even referees for advancements in football, whether this be a video judge like in rugby or just simple goal line technology, to be implemented in the game to cut out these mistakes. However the official word from FIFA is that goal line technology will NOT be implemented into the game due to costs and maintaining that all levels of the game are the same.

Therefore for this first article myself, Bishy and Badderman have all answered the following question; should technology be brought into the game to aid the officials?

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