Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Slow Motion Football
Remember on the old Match of the Days and they'd give you slow motion action replays because they only had a couple of cameras at the games?
Now imagine a whole game of slow motion football! I've only seen 45 minutes so far of Persita and Persiba but apart from the rhyming names not much has happened.
Plenty of soft free kicks given by the ref but when a Persita defender physically halted a Persiba attacker in the penalty area he'd suddenly lost his pea.
Being played in Solo the crowd is just a few school kids on th eway home but nobody is missing much. Any relationship between what's happening on the pitch and a football match is purely incidental.
It's atimes like this I feel for the reporters. Ever since that epiphinal moment when I realised it was a commentators job to promote the game and not necessarily tell the truth, I see them in a different light.
Pity the poor saps in the studio finding something positive to say about this affair!
It ended 1-0 for Persita, their first win of the season, with a header from Wirahadi in the first seconds of injury time. Heartbreak perhaps for Persiba who had played what little football there was but will coach Peter Butler spit the dummy 'cos there was no one on the back post?
For Persita relief for their coach Agus Suparman but they ain't out the woods yet. Far from it, Suparman may have to call on Spiderman, Ironman and even Bananaman to fix a Persita side who look like 11 strangers with only a shirt in common.
Now imagine a whole game of slow motion football! I've only seen 45 minutes so far of Persita and Persiba but apart from the rhyming names not much has happened.
Plenty of soft free kicks given by the ref but when a Persita defender physically halted a Persiba attacker in the penalty area he'd suddenly lost his pea.
Being played in Solo the crowd is just a few school kids on th eway home but nobody is missing much. Any relationship between what's happening on the pitch and a football match is purely incidental.
It's atimes like this I feel for the reporters. Ever since that epiphinal moment when I realised it was a commentators job to promote the game and not necessarily tell the truth, I see them in a different light.
Pity the poor saps in the studio finding something positive to say about this affair!
It ended 1-0 for Persita, their first win of the season, with a header from Wirahadi in the first seconds of injury time. Heartbreak perhaps for Persiba who had played what little football there was but will coach Peter Butler spit the dummy 'cos there was no one on the back post?
For Persita relief for their coach Agus Suparman but they ain't out the woods yet. Far from it, Suparman may have to call on Spiderman, Ironman and even Bananaman to fix a Persita side who look like 11 strangers with only a shirt in common.
# posted by Me @ 4:28 PM 
