Some readers may know that I get really frustrated with the scoring for football. You know the sort of thing....the team you are supporting hits the post and bar 6 times in all, has 2 blatant penalties disallowed, but the other team gets a harsh free kick award outside your area with a minute to go. The ball is going to be easily saved by your keeper, but it ricochets off the head of a defender in the wall, and you lose 1-0. Clearly the better team hasn't won.So it's interesting to look at Chelsea's last 3 games that have, to a lesser or greater extent, influenced Mourinho's departure. Yes, they had a complete shocker in going down to Villa 2-0, but they "won" against Blackburn, only for a wrong decision to rule out Salomon Kalou's goal. And then they had, according to Mourinho's much publicised post match quote "20 chances" against Rosenborg, but only scored once, although they hit the woodwork twice. Mourinho then left Chelsea.
I can't help but think a different scoring system which gives a more accurate reflection of which was the better team would have meant 2 wins out of 3 for Chelsea. But equally there were games last season when Chelsea scraped through by the skin of their teeth where they didn't really deserve to, so it works both ways. But I'd still like to see the team that has clearly dominated a game winning more often, and ideally in my book, every time.
2 comments:
Ed, what is this obsession you have with the best team winning? To me, the beauty of sport is that sometimes the best team does not win. It all adds to the unpredictability and drama of it all. It allows more opportunities for upsets to occur.
Luck should never have to great a part to play, or it would simply be a game of chance, but it should definitely be part of the equation. I for one would lose interest in sport pretty quickly if the best team won 100% of the time.
I can see that I'm in a minority (of 1?!) but I want to see underdogs beat favourites by using good tactics and being more determined to overcome superior skill from the opposition. What I don't want to see is the underdogs winning because they were awarded a highly dubious freekick just outside the box which deflected 4 times on it's way into the goal.
So I'd like to take out the role of luck and ensure that the team that wins is the one that plays better on the day. I think too often at the moment, that isn't the case, particularly in football.
(This doesn't mean, however, that it's always the best team on paper that wins.)
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