An arbitrator’s past mistakes kilos and leftover
February 23, 2010 by bumeral
Filed under Football rumors
In the end, someone must have heard Drogba when, beside himself, he remembered the family tree of the referee at the end of this Chelsea-Barça. In Spain, all we are left with Iniesta’s goal, with the start of Barcelona’s triumphant journey to the triplet Guardiola, first, and the sextet, later. Drogba cried at the end of that game that the Blues had cheated them four penalties during the game. Four.
Who whistled that day? Tom Henning Ovrebo, a recent Norwegian peer of those whose image should command respect, if not for his performance leaves much to be desired. Someone should do that day if Drogba instead of suspended for four matches. If any capitoste UEFA had listened we would have saved the embarrassment of last Wednesday at the Allianz of Munich. But they preferred to overlook it.
The truth is that Chelsea’s Ivorian temperamental point was to warn the braid-aloud, it is true, what would come next. Ultimately, Drogba warned us all. It was only a matter of time before the Norwegian referee to do it again.
Henning, very old-kilos, was found Wednesday by the Bavarian capital with its referees with more than 15 years behind internationalism. The Norwegian is not just anyone, has been elected five times better arbiter of his country has blown two finals in the Norway Cup, he has participated in a European Championship and was named by UEFA Champions League semi-final for that.
Henning, with his experience and background should be an arbiter of security. But it is not. The League of his country stands by winter and he has controlled his diet. In the Euro 2008 only managed two games before that UEFA had ordered him home after a bad performance in a decisive Italy-Romania, nullifying a goal for the Azzurri legal.
Henning knows from small, when we entered the referee courses, instructors tell us that it’s best we go unnoticed. And if that is impossible, at least nobody can say, at the end of a meeting, we have favored either team. And hell, despite having made a disastrous arbitration Wednesday in Munich, Fiorentina could not accuse him of having manipulated the results thoroughly.
And that, paradoxically, is what makes the most guilty Norwegian. So bad was that it was wrong at all. In none of the plays in which he was required to take a momentous decision was correct.
When pitas that bad, you get to dress blowing and you feel so fucked up on your bench and you can not blame anyone. If the linesman scored the expulsion was not, for that you were, you should consider if the party needed such as red or you could fix with a yellow card. If the same linesman raised his flag not you before Klose illegal position in the decisive goal, as for that too were you, when you first began to whistle in regional and attendees did not have you should learn to intuit offsides.
There you are. On the sidelines of the costumes of the Allianz Arena in Munich, sitting, and reviewing what you did wrong. What you’ve done wrong.
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