Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Red, Red Whine
For the second successive Asian Champions League game at Jalan Besar Stadium Singapore Armed Forces have had a player red carded.
No doubt the word is going out in referee circles. Watch them Warriors, they're dirty gits. Dish 'em a red, we'll look tough and they won't complain anyway.
SAFFC need to learn sharpish how the mind of an AFC ref works.
The uniform is a buzz of course. Having that FIFA badge elevates the bearer into illustrious company where they stand a chance to blow their peas at World Cup no less. And dishing out red cards, so the theory goes, to the home team in front of noisy, passionate fans, is one way they can burnish their credentials.
Of course treating a ref like royalty won't help. 'Cos these guys are paragons of impartiality, princes of neutrality.
So it's pointless putting them up in better hotels when they hit town. Hotel 81s down Joo Chiat Road is good enough. Why waste hard earned cash putting them in starred hotels down Orchard Road when they're gonna red card one of your players anyway. Why pander to their puffed up egos, letting them text message their wives/girlfriends that they're staying at the Hyatt or Raffles? Stick 'em in a Fragrance and let them catch a bus to the stadium.
Pointless reds, nonsensical yellows and seven minutes injury time in total in a game where not even a boot lace got hurt make a mockery of the beautiful game.
This is not a rant about how poor officiating cost SAFFC three points. On balance the Japanese deserved their win. No, this is a rant about a bloated little man full of his own self importance dishing out cards because he could.
SAFFC are not a dirty team. One wonders what the ref tonight and the geezer in the last game against Suwon Bluewings would make of an Indonesia Super League game. Or better an Indonesia Premier League game.
If the two gents who reffed the last SAFFC home games in the ACL are anything to go by it looks like the AFC is determined to clamp down on the slightest contact on the field. If that trend continues we'll end up with chess and no bugger will want to sponsor that, let alone pay to watch it.
No doubt the word is going out in referee circles. Watch them Warriors, they're dirty gits. Dish 'em a red, we'll look tough and they won't complain anyway.
SAFFC need to learn sharpish how the mind of an AFC ref works.
The uniform is a buzz of course. Having that FIFA badge elevates the bearer into illustrious company where they stand a chance to blow their peas at World Cup no less. And dishing out red cards, so the theory goes, to the home team in front of noisy, passionate fans, is one way they can burnish their credentials.
Of course treating a ref like royalty won't help. 'Cos these guys are paragons of impartiality, princes of neutrality.
So it's pointless putting them up in better hotels when they hit town. Hotel 81s down Joo Chiat Road is good enough. Why waste hard earned cash putting them in starred hotels down Orchard Road when they're gonna red card one of your players anyway. Why pander to their puffed up egos, letting them text message their wives/girlfriends that they're staying at the Hyatt or Raffles? Stick 'em in a Fragrance and let them catch a bus to the stadium.
Pointless reds, nonsensical yellows and seven minutes injury time in total in a game where not even a boot lace got hurt make a mockery of the beautiful game.
This is not a rant about how poor officiating cost SAFFC three points. On balance the Japanese deserved their win. No, this is a rant about a bloated little man full of his own self importance dishing out cards because he could.
SAFFC are not a dirty team. One wonders what the ref tonight and the geezer in the last game against Suwon Bluewings would make of an Indonesia Super League game. Or better an Indonesia Premier League game.
If the two gents who reffed the last SAFFC home games in the ACL are anything to go by it looks like the AFC is determined to clamp down on the slightest contact on the field. If that trend continues we'll end up with chess and no bugger will want to sponsor that, let alone pay to watch it.
# posted by Me @ 8:36 PM 
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Singapore learns what Japan already knows so well. At their best, AFC referees are invisible; at their worst, they're a bunch of Keystone Kops who would as soon send you off for questioning their judgement than admit they made a mistake.
Can't get away with shunting them off to Geylang, I'm afraid. They'd go running back to the AFC, the same group that demands two (2!) 5-star hotels for any city hoping to host a Champions League or AFC Cup match, let alone a tournament.
Can't get away with shunting them off to Geylang, I'm afraid. They'd go running back to the AFC, the same group that demands two (2!) 5-star hotels for any city hoping to host a Champions League or AFC Cup match, let alone a tournament.
afc referee are sometimes act too much when they took control of matches which include south asian team games...just look at the match during last afc asian cup match between indonesia and saudi arabia...the referee tend to give the saudis the advantages and with indo side lack of discipline and stamina the referee making it worse for the host...
it's a uniform fetish...
does jayapura boast two 5 star hotels?
paeedee - you make a good point about discipline. playing well is one thing, playing smart another and the latter won t come all the while places like indonesia are so inward looking
does jayapura boast two 5 star hotels?
paeedee - you make a good point about discipline. playing well is one thing, playing smart another and the latter won t come all the while places like indonesia are so inward looking
Negative, Me -- just the one. That's among the reasons the Papuans are playing their matches in GBK.
that plus the lack of an international airport
are they aware that even with their renovated stadium they cannot host acl games?
i seem to remember reading they had been given the go ahead to use mandala stadium if they reached the knock out stages...fat chance now!
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are they aware that even with their renovated stadium they cannot host acl games?
i seem to remember reading they had been given the go ahead to use mandala stadium if they reached the knock out stages...fat chance now!
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