If FIFA had spent as much money on goal-line technology as it splurges on self-indulgent meetings, the United States might be going to the World Cup. The Americans will be missing from the 2018 World Cup in Russia in part because of the lack of goal-line detection systems in CONCACAF regional qualifying. The U.S. is out and has no recourse for protest against its absence from a World Cup for the first time since 1986. But the focus of FIFA's leadership has already moved a step beyond goal-line technology. The U.S. will rightly feel aggrieved that a refereeing mistake has contributed to its World Cup disappointment.

Source: CBC News October 11, 2017 15:45 UTC