Almost all football fans, all over the world, sincerely dislike players who film – and players who take a quarter to crawl out after a change in the 93rd. I know, we can imagine some exceptions, and killing time is also part of the game, but you are ashamed as a bear if your own team puts it in order. Yes, it will soon be quite embarrassing on only a few occasions. You just do not want to act that way.
After Greece-Sweden on Wednesday, I was able to state objectively, objectively and sensibly that all Greek players with brilliance would have passed the really difficult test for the Swedish Theater Academy. Especially with an examiner like the Russian judge Sergei Karasev, who clearly marked, during the first quarter, that he would not allow himself to be influenced by the Greeks’ attempts to constantly play the dying swan.
He must have been sad right away after the fifteen minute long introduction, then he willingly allowed himself to be blown away by all the Greek tragedies that now followed. And lord my Creator how they fell; dying, unconscious, screaming for help. They took care of the face, the head, the hair, the torso, the writing, the hand, the leg, the foot. And as the blood rushed out of the mouths of the poor Greeks! Odysseus’ return home was by comparison a pure Sunday walk.
“Included in the game”, also thought the new Greek national team captain John van ‘t Schip. Yes, we get it Johnny, but this historical, almost ridiculous, overplay?
Would really like to see a compilation of all Greek free kicks during the match – I guarantee it will be at least as comical as Charlie Chaplin or Nils Poppe in high form.
The judge’s role is difficult and difficult, no one doubts that, but there are some incredibly easy steps in judging, I would say that they are even very easy. For example, it is super easy to learn to step on a free kick, a little over nine meters. An incredible number of judges set up the wall at about 7.5. “Because I have now decided.” It’s just as easy to take the time: If it takes four minutes to do a VAR review, you add four. And then you play four. The same thing when players lie down for two minutes, takes two minutes to leave the field – there will be four more minutes.
What is the problem? That all the judges of the world want to go home as soon as possible? If we watch the entire second half between Greece and Sweden, how much extra would we get then? Ten minutes extra? As I said, the judge’s job is devilishly difficult and complicated and often quite ungrateful – but should the clock and meter system still be able to be learned from the first day of the first judge’s course?
The absolute biggest problem with the refereeing profession in football, all over the world, is that modern referees increasingly also want to be involved and play a role. Sin roll. They want their time, their own time, they also want to get some of the radiance over them.
Incredibly many referees, I can probably name five, six now active Swedish jurists, see themselves as part of the “entertainment” – and who really do not mind at all to decide a match. On your own. And they do.
Almost no one accepts anymore to be invisible, just do their job, and it may have become a human right. I exist. See me. Love me – or hate me.
Mosebacke monarchy and Mosevisionen could in their time teach us how to learn the clock. A course that must have been used in all the world’s refereeing lessons.
“What time is it when the big hand is at 9 and the small one is at 4?”
”94…?”
”Yes!”
Read more sports in TV chronicles by Johan Croneman:
Hegerfors was a gifted language – today commentators should only be able to hold the box
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