Two referees for football?

Well well well anyone surprised with FIFA's decision to do....err.....absolutely nothing?

Today they have decided that they will not use goal-line assistants at the World Cup to assist the referee. I struggle to think of any good reason why.

Lets take a look at other sports for a moment:

Cricket - 2 umpires + tv umpire
Rugby - 1 referee, 2 linesman, tv official
Baseball - 4 umpires + tv offical
Basketball - 3 referees
American Football - 7 plus tv officials

Why is it that football is persisting with a system that is clearly out of date and clearly not working? While I do not think that goal-line assistants are the answer I do support any changes to increase the accuracy of the decision making during a game of football.

My preference would be the following:

1. Introduce goal-line technology so that the referee can refer to it at his discretion for important decisions.

2. Add an additional on-field referee so that one person does not have to cover so much territory. It is quite unrealistic that we expect the referees to be able to keep up with professional athletes for 90+ minutes.

3. Use a countdown clock that is on display in the stadium and is controlled by the 4th official. For injury stoppages the clock is actually stopped and everyone can see it. This would remove the current ambiguity that exists with the referee and when to stop the game. For some reason there is always more stoppage time in the 2nd half than the first - can anyone explain that? This solution would put an end to this ridiculous phenomenon.

With these three (simple) changes incidents like Henry's handball against Ireland,Eduardo's dive against Celtic in the Champions League and Drogba diving all over the place would be more likely to be run out of the game. The curious thing about all football governing bodies is that they do not seem to be interested in protecting the game from its less savoury aspects (i.e. cheating). Im bored watching the Premier League at the moment because of the amount of diving, swearing at the referee, petulant behaviour, bad decisions.

Am I the only one?