Fifa unhappy about shadows
(news24.com)
Updated: 2006-06-12 16:54 Distinctive shadows on the pitch during England's match against Paraguay in
Frankfurt on Saturday afternoon were particularly noticeable and were caused by
the steel rods holding a huge four-sided electronic TV cube in place high above
the pitch.
The rods cast shadows of diagonal lines all over the pitch and the cube
itself made a huge square shadow by the halfway line.
A high clearance from England goalkeeper Paul Robinson struck the cube during
the match forcing the referee to re-start the match with a dropped ball.
The next afternoon match in Frankfurt is on Tuesday when South Korea play
Togo.
The bright sunshine and stadium design in Dortmund and girders in the roof
construction in Gelsenkirchen are also playing havoc with TV images.
The silverdome in Detroit became the first World Cup venue to stage matches
indoors in the World Cup held in the US in 1994.
Siegler said: emarked: "The temperature in that stadium reached around 50ˇăC
at times and we would not want a repeat of that situation."
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