Sepp wants alternative to pelanties.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sepp Blatter wants penalty shoot-out alternative
Fifa president Sepp Blatter has asked Bayern Munich honorary president Franz Beckenbauer to come up with an alternative to the "tragedy" of penalty shoot-outs.
Beckenbauer is head of the Football Task Force 2014, a group designed to recommend rule changes. "Football can be a tragedy when you go to penalty kicks," Blatter said. "Football should not go to one to one. When it goes to penalty kicks football loses its essence." He added: "Perhaps Franz Beckenbauer with his football 2014 group can show us a solution, perhaps not today but in the future." The Champions League final was decided on penalties this season , with Chelsea winning after Bayern Munich dominated the game. It was the 10th time that the European Cup final has gone to a shoot-out. (Cont'd).

What was there before penalty shoot-outs?
Before shoot-outs were introduced in 1970, drawn games went to either a replay, lots were drawn or they were decided by a coin toss - in the 1968 European Championship semi-final, Italy beat Soviet Union on a coin toss. Zambia also won a major cup in a penalty shoot-out this season, beating Ivory Coast for the Africa Cup of Nations . The World Cup final has twice been decided on penalties, with Brazil beating Italy in 1994 and Italy seeing off France in 2006. Blatter referred to the "tragedy" of shoot-outs after Italy's win, although four years later he suggested having all draws in World Cup group games ending with penalties.

The Swiss was speaking to delegates at the Fifa congress on Friday.
Fifa has revealed the decision on the introduction of goal-line technology will take place in Zurich on 5 July rather than in Kiev three days earlier, the day after the Euro 2012 final. Hawk-Eye, a camera-based system, will be used by independent testers during England's friendly against Belgium on 2 June, although match officials will have no access to data and the trial will have no impact on any contentious goal-line decisions.

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I think the team captains should have a game of FIFA, both teams set to ultra offensive, goalkeepers in the striking positions. First goal wins.

[Dennis Bendtner]

Both teams should take turns to slap Blatter. Not sure about deciding a winner. It'd be a larf though.

[Kano]

Hmm. Bayern lose a CL Final on pens and now Becker's is looking into changing things.

I'm sure they're not related at all.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Germany has lost its identity.

[Coney]

Germany has lost its identity.

Their identity has gone west.

[Niall_Quinn]

You'd think Blatter would feel too ashamed and humiliated to appear in public, let alone speak! But no, here he is.

[Marc Overmars]

Not sure there is an alternative to penalties really.

Replays are a bit shit because it's better for the occasion to have a winner decided on the day and even that could still end in a draw and require penalties anyway.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

The only thing that could happen really that is similar is to a one-on-one situation, like in Hockey but then if you do that you'd might aswell stick with pelanties.

[GP]

How about a dance-off?

Or a fight to the death?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Hide and seek.