Most boring World Cup in a history of football; Your ideas about how to save a football?

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I have been thinking about this for a while. You should know that while I live in the United States, I know my country isnt very good, I have been playing since I was four, I love the game almost more than anything, and I have seen part of every game of this world cup, and I have taped all the games. Now, my father and I, big football (soccer to us, part of our ignorance, sorry) lovers, have spoken about this problem before. We brainstormed ideas, such as: increasing size of the goal, a new rule such as you must half at least two players within X amount of yard (meters, another part of our ignorance, sorry) of the halfline, but this would be very akward, and what would be the punishment if someone broke it? There have been enough yellow cards as it is. Then, I thought that maybe there could be a kind of "shot clock". In the United States, one of our big sports, basketball, used to produce low scoring, boring games, and they came out with the "shot clock" to speed up the tempo and increase the score. This was a few decades ago, and worked tremoundously well. However, how exactly would this work in football(soccer)? A two minute limit, or something? But again, what would be the punishment, and also how would they keep track of it? Then, he came up with another rule that originated in our basketball, the half-court violation, and this is the best one I have heard yet. In basketball, you have ten seconds to get the ball over the halfline, and once you get it over, you cannot go back. However, to make this rule work in football(soccer), we would scratch the time-limit, and just make it so that once you got it over the half-line, you couldn't bring it back. For the punishment, we decided it would be a free kick of some type, possibly from the corner-kick arc, although then every time there was a violation, there would be a slow-down as the teams moved half the field; that area needs some work, but still, we could figure it out. So now, teams are faced with three options: 1, keep the ball in their own end, which no team really wants to do, and, if pressured by the other team, the team with the ball will a) lose the ball and give up a counter-attack, or b) manage to break the defense, and get a numbers-up situation of their own; 2) put the ball forward and keep it there so A) when pressured, they cannot go backward as much, meaning i) the defense could steal it and get a counter-attack or ii) they beat the pressure and get a numbers-up situation; B) they go forward more, not wanting to risk losing it near the middle, and create more chances, which i) of course means they are more likely to score and ii) means the other team has a good chance for the quick counter-attack; and 3) they can bring it forward across the halfline, but if they bring it back, they give up a dangerous situation in front of their goal, such as A) a corner situation, B) a direct kick situation, or C) an indirect kick situation, but A,B, or C it is a scoring opportunity, no matter where it is from. Clearly, this beginning of an idea would need a lot of work, but couldnt it work? Of course, it could backfire, and just create a lot of midfield play with teams getting the ball, going forward 20 yards, not being able to go backward, and losing it, etc. But, on the other hand, with the goals-per-game average what it is, and with 7, yes, s-e-v-e-n 0-0 scores after 90 minutes in this cup, what is there to lose?...Show more

Maybe the teams should rematch the 0-0 games. This way they would be forced to score, because a rematch will cost plenty of their energy and eventually the players will get pretty tired. Even if a club has 25 players they cannot manage more than 2 games / week, not to speak about the world cup where after a long season players have to play 7 games in 4 weeks....Show more

Portugal is the most dirty playing team I have ever seen play the game.

I think the best idea is to eliminate the offside trap altogether. This will make games more interesting and we will have more one on ones with the goalie, and only the skillfull player/goalie will win such challenges which befits the idea of a skillfull team, unlike Greece when they won with textbook defending football and no skill whatsoever....Show more

You're a farce on two feet, you know that ? You know absolutely nothing about football and you could do with some spelling lessons too but you keep insulting Germany, Portugal and the USA..
( by the way you have been reported to Yahoo Answers for the "questions" you have been posing in the last few days solely to insult THAT country and its people !!!
I just thought I would tell you.
I would suggest you use names like "cockroaches and "scum" on yourself and not on a country and apeople you know nothing about, you silly bum !) Sorry the rest of you about this. This Nick_G is a psycho and a few peoploe are complaining about him...Show more

Are you crazy this was the best WC ever !!!

The worst WC will be Italia 90 that one WAS boring...also the last one as some really ordinary teams like Korea & Turkey made it to the semis.....Show more