It seems every man and
his dog is banging on about the use of new technology in football. Some argue that the introduction of TV aids
would detract from the speed, beauty and purity of the game. Others dust off the ‘one game’ argument, that
if they don’t have it on Hackney Marshes then it shouldn’t be used in the
Champions League, though that now is surely spurious. Those
in favour range from post match reviews, through goal line technology to stop
the game every ten seconds like American Football and review everything. While Sepp Blatter and the boys at FIFA just dither
and bring in, pointless in my opinion, officials behind the goals.
Well today brought the
advent of new technology in the Fleming household. For a pensioner, Dad has often been an early
adopter when it comes to new stuff.
Cable TV, VCR machines and flat screen TV being a few of the things he
splashed out on only for them to drop in price in the next 6 months. Well he did it again! He decided to squander more of my inheritance,
this time on a 3D TV and so now we had the chance to watch a match in it. So we donned our slightly silly specs and
tuned in...
Chelsea 2 – Bayer Levekusen
0
Hardly a classic
encounter but at least there was a bit of action and two goals; if you want the
match review buy a newspaper!
The 3D specs take some
getting used to and you couldn’t see through people’s clothes (but that might
be me getting a bit confused!) There is definite
depth there but it does seem to take a bit of getting used to and I must
confess that I did feel a bit nauseous at times, but that may have been down to
match summariser (Gary Neville).
David Luiz’s goal was a
cracker and he went on a wild celebratory run, hair flowing behind him, which was
magnificent in 3D. In fact I would go so
far as to suggest the inventors had his hair in mind when they developed the
concept. Fernando Torres was involved in
setting up both goals but he left his shooting boots behind again – its eight
months since he moved down from Liverpool, you would have thought that he would
have unpacked all his belongings by now!
In 3D we can now appreciate just how far he is missing by, which is some
margin and with interesting trajectories.
The big disappointment of the night was that Didier Drogba didn’t
play. Boy does he go down easy, now that
would have been a test for the effect, though one probably best viewed from the relative safety of behind the sofa.
The next match is Chelsea
V Manchester United on Sunday, until then the jury is out as to whether it is
brilliant technology or this year’s Betamax or laserdisc.
PS I realise Betamax was
superior to VHS
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