I’ve sort of kept my peace about FIFA and their madness as of late. Same goes for the drama with CONCACAF yesterday. Honestly I’ve been busy with work and other soccer ventures that I just didn’t have the time or energy to comment.

Well this photo just about sums up all the energy I have to talk about it. One candidate, a bad one too. At least 17 folks decided not to vote for him.

Will it get any better with four more years of Blatter in charge? Probably not. But I am willing to hope that some good changes do come soon enough after all of these scandals.

Hard to argue that this wasn't a goal. (Getty Images)

In a way I see this as just a gesture from FIFA boss Sepp Blatter to make folks happier but in the other way I have a feeling nothing will actually come of it. Either way you spin it Blatter said today he would be open to considering replays for calls on the field.

Blatter has stated that FIFA will “re-open the file on goal-line technology” during meetings next month to determine whether FIFA will implement the use of instant replay in the future.

Once England was the victim of a non-goal/non-call against Germany where the ball clearly crossed the goal-line but all the refs on the field failed to see what millions around the world saw, we knew something would at least be discussed a bit more here. The technology is already in place for some goal-line sensors which would have clearly helped this situation out for England.

Mexico was also a victim of some unlucky calls against Argentina. Carlos Tevez was clearly offside but his first goal was still allowed.

More than likely we won’t see any sort of system to help offside calls here as that sort of replay system would drastically slow the pace of the game down for calls like this. But goal-line technology would instantly help some situations out. No one can really know how much different the England-Germany game would have been at 2-2 instead of how it was at 2-1 when the Frank Lampard shot crossed the goal-line. Germany winning 4-1 definitely silenced more folks in England about the Lampard goal that wasn’t than they would have had the score ended 2-1.

FIFA and Blatter have told England and Mexico sorry for the mistakes but that kind of message won’t be good enough for either today.

I’m all for some goal-line technology here and have been supporting that issue for a while now. Maybe its time we see some sort of system like in hockey where a forth or even fifth official just examines the goal-line situations and turns on a bright red light when the ball crosses the line. Cheesy in some manners but effective.

Now, don’t get me wrong I am in the boat that think it could be positive change in the long run if the league were able to actually do such a switch. But his reasoning for it kind of ticks me off as he views the problem with the league is that the best American players aren’t playing in the league and that the clubs aren’t in control of their own stadiums.

That is a yes and no really for me. While I totally get what he is saying I just don’t like the tone that he is slamming our boys who stay home and play here instead of in Europe.

“American football plays in winter, so they can only play from March to October, which means you are not in the right season,” Blatter said on Wednesday. “The best American players are playing here, and this is the basic problem with the MLS.”

“This league was founded after the 1994 World Cup, but is still struggling to get the position they should have according to the number of football players there are in the United States,” Blatter said. “It has the highest number of young players in any sport. But the league has not found yet its position. It can only find its position if the league has its own stadiums.”

As you see he also mentions the stadium situation and I think in a way he hasn’t watched a lot of MLS lately. In a couple of years nearly every MLS club will either be in their own stadium or very close to it, with the exception of the Seattles and New Englands of the league who’s owner control the stadium situation.

To me I think Blatter just loves to slam the US and it’s soccer rather than praise it for its progress since the league’s inception. I know he doesn’t want the US to win the 2018 World Cup bid and I’m sure if he could he would love to not see it come here in 2022. I don’t know, maybe that is just me but it seems like anytime he talks about the US and soccer its always comes in a negative tone.