It’s not that they “can’t”, but that they ignorantly refuse to. Almost as if it comes from “soccer nations”!
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There’s enough wiggle room in FIFA regs that you can have a 105m x 70m soccer pitch, but the critical goal and penalty box dimensions are still 100% Imperial.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744