BRITS MIGHT KICK IN REPLAYS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. English soccer is looking more seriously into the possibility of television replays to help make penalty decisions because of a penalty the British media is calling the most controversial in years. A penalty in an FA Cup fifth-round match resulted in a goal and a 1-0 win for Chelsea over Leicester. The controversial decision Wednesday came in overtime when referee Mike Reed Professor G. Mike Reed is an American computer scientist and Director of UNU/IIST, Macau, part of the United Nations University since 2005. Previously he was at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory where he was also a Fellow in Computation of St Edmund Hall, Oxford called a penalty on Leicester's Spencer Prior Spencer Justin Prior (born 22 April 1971 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex) is an English former footballer. He was a central defender who retired at the end of the 2006-07 season. He finished his career playing for his hometown Club Southend United, the club where he began his career. for taking down Erland Johnsen Erland Johnsen (born April 5, 1967 in Moss) is a Norwegian football coach and former player. He was a solid central defender who was capped 19 times for the Norwegian national team, participating in the 1994 FIFA World Cup. . A replay showed no foul, with Prior seeming to tumble to tumble to Verb to understand or become aware of: how did he tumble to this? the ground on his own. ``It may be inevitable that football has got to look at it,'' Graham Kelly For the football administrator, see Graham Kelly (football). For the GoldNow CEO, see GoldNow. Graham Kelly is a former New Zealand politician. As a member of the Labour Party, he served as MP for Porirua from the 1987 elections until the 1996 elections, when he became MP , the English Football Association chief executive, said of instant replay. Kelly said the FA has been studying how technology might help since last summer when an apparent goal by Romania was disallowed in the European Championship. Violence discussed:Italian soccer league president Franco Carraro met with government officials Thursday to discuss ways of curbing fan violence at soccer games. ``The objective is to prevent the problems of Italian society from finding an outlet through violence inside the stadiums,'' Carraro said. ``In England, where there is a violent society, they have resolved the problem of the hooligans with similar systems. Why shouldn't we be able to do the same?'' he said. ``I'm also encouraged by the American example, where there is a very violent society but calm stadiums.'' Recent incidents include a clash between fans and police at Bologna after an Italian Cup semifinal match and rock throwing by Fiorentina fans, breaking windows in the Juventus team bus. Two weeks ago, metal objects were tossed from the stands during Reggiana's game against AC Parma. |
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