As usual announcers are uneducated and the last to learn of changes to the football laws of the games. The PK call in the first half of the match between Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders on 8/30/2015 was correct in not including a red card for a denial of an obvious goal scoring opportunity. Since Mr. Twellman obviously does not review the laws of the game before speaking as an expert – only speaks as a paid talking head – he would not know that obvious goal scoring opportunities have been recently better defined to include not just proximity between an attacker and the ball, one of four "D"s, but must now also include "keeping or gaining control of the ball" as well as the other three "D"s. This is again another example of miseducation by paid talking dummkopfs.

Professional Futsal League (PFL) Debut Weekend

I watched the debut PFL games in DFW this weekend and, while the play was as exciting as futsal usually is, the commentary was … actually … disappointing.

First the announcers Dan Robertson and Miguel Mariel felt it necessary to explain the rules of futsal because, I'm guessing here, it was ssumed the audience was ignorant of the rules of the game of futsal and, it was assumed, Dan and Miguel would explain the rules to the ignorant listeners. With this assumption, it would have been good if Miguel and Dan reviewed the rules themselves and were able to speak intelligently about the rules of futsal. But they didn't. They spoke poorly. And the sad thing was, all the newcomers to futsal were sponges to their mis-education. My advice to Dan and Miguel is to prepare to speak intelligently by reading the laws of the game, at least once, and trying to learn the correct terms and phrases that define the game in order to speak like an expert that most listeners think you are.

Next time Manuel Mariel plans to color comment on a futsal game, he should review the futsal laws of the game in order to use the correct terminology. IT IS NOT CALLED THE 6^TH PENALTY MARK! It's called the 2^nd Penalty Mark, which is used upon the 6^th accumulated foul and beyond. And there were other explanations that were just plain weak, probably because he didn't understand the rules himself very well. WHEN IN A POSITION OF AUTHORITY, PLEASE KNOW WHAT THE HELL YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT! It's not enough to have just played the game. You need to also know the rules of the games. Duuhh!!!