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Monday, June 21, 2010
FIFA Monarchy of edicts and proclamations continues
The mouses (they don’t even deserve to be called mice) that run FIFA, as the head of the FIFA referees committee speaks:
“Some decisions are not good on the field of play and this is, for human beings, natural. We can’t explain every decision. Our duty is to prepare them in the best way we can.
“Later, maybe with the benefit of 32 cameras and thousands of people assessing this kind of situation, we realise these decisions were not fully correct (but) the duty of the referees is not to explain their decision.
”The referees are there to try to implement the laws of the game on the field, not to explain every single situation. Otherwise they are not focused on the game, they are focused on the media. The best players in the world also make mistakes. It’s wrong to say the credibility of football is in doubt.”
Wow. I mean, just wow. I love, just love, that the NFL referee turns on his voice box, as the whole crowd shuts up, so he can explain, sometimes in details, the call on the field. The NHL referees have an elaborate system of hand gestures to explain the fouls, and singles out players by number for infractions. This all seems to common sense and obvious, that it is shocking that the head of the largest sports organization in the world doesn’t see it this way.
And, even if you want to argue that they can’t explain “every”, can’t they explain THE ONE that a billion people want to know about?
No. The mouses prefer to remain intellectually dishonest while appearing to be above the fray. They are in fact below the fray. They are the reason the fray exists.
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