As an occasional soccer fan (once every four years), perhaps someone can enlighten me on why there are no penalty goals in soccer. A columnist in today's paper was opining that penalty goals (such as in other sports, like rugby and hockey) are not the way to go in soccer because the modern game is too fast and the referee has too much to keep track of. I have a hard time buying that. If the referee was close enough to award a red card and a penalty kick against Uruguay in the dying seconds of the match against Ghana, he was close enough to award a penalty goal. As it was, blatant cheating got Uruguay a reprieve. Admittedly, Ghana had their chance to make it good with a penalty shot, but it should never have come to that.