saimun
01 Jul 2006, 11:13 AM
Well as I said in a previous thread I'm going to be off soon as I will be very busy attending conferences and meetings and will be spending all of my spare time watching the WC and not well, discussing it (which reminds me, I do wish I was actually home right now watching TV instead of at uni in the middle of the night doing my presentation for next week :( Ah, but work comes first. Maybe I'm not a true fan? Ah, but I can follow it through matchcast :) which is not exactly doing wonders for my productivity either. Maybe I should have just gone home after all...Looks like a pretty even match so far just by the stats. Go England! Break the curse! At least it's taping...). But given the problems associated with the WC this year, I thought that I would give everyone a nice laugh by posting this latest news:
http://www.abc.net.au/sport/content/200607/s1676235.htm
Cup refereeing "best ever".
Though the refereeing news is not all laughable. Thankfully big names are starting to acknowledge the diving problem in this WC.
First, Franz Beckenbauer has criticised the ever increasing "simulation" in football as a significant problem with the recent problems with refereeing, saying "players do not make life any easier for the referees by the way they fall down and roll over and over every time they are touched" but also criticising referees, "But at the same time the referees are often too quick to whistle, they are too quick to show a yellow card and then they have a problem because they have to then show a [second] yellow and red card.":
http://home.skysports.com/worldcup/homearticle.aspx?hlid=399525&CPID=4&clid=&lid=13&title=Beckenbauer+blasts+divers
FIFA chief referee Villar also acknowledges the increasing problems with diving:
http://football.guardian.co.uk/worldcup2006/story/0,,1810136,00.html
I *do* like the irony of the head referee being a player who once punched another player in the face :)
http://www.abc.net.au/sport/content/200607/s1676235.htm
Cup refereeing "best ever".
Though the refereeing news is not all laughable. Thankfully big names are starting to acknowledge the diving problem in this WC.
First, Franz Beckenbauer has criticised the ever increasing "simulation" in football as a significant problem with the recent problems with refereeing, saying "players do not make life any easier for the referees by the way they fall down and roll over and over every time they are touched" but also criticising referees, "But at the same time the referees are often too quick to whistle, they are too quick to show a yellow card and then they have a problem because they have to then show a [second] yellow and red card.":
http://home.skysports.com/worldcup/homearticle.aspx?hlid=399525&CPID=4&clid=&lid=13&title=Beckenbauer+blasts+divers
FIFA chief referee Villar also acknowledges the increasing problems with diving:
http://football.guardian.co.uk/worldcup2006/story/0,,1810136,00.html
I *do* like the irony of the head referee being a player who once punched another player in the face :)