http://sports.media.daum.net/soccer...eid=1171&newsid=20120217082807547&p=joynews24 WTF. More of self-serving bias. Sadly, not surprising. Given Seongnam has been spanking teams in preseason friendlies and gripes against another K-league v J-League match. Shimizu got ass handed to them 5-1 in January and was looking for blood. 3 Japanese refs handed out cards and fouls on Seongnam while not calling against Shimizu with Shimizu playing physically. Second half, Ghotbi asks Shin to cancel the match and after match Shimizu's Takahara says, "the refs were biased and the game had to be stopped because of them." Looking for more reports on this seeming BS.
This article is biased, not the referee. It's almost state-of-art propaganda, unfortunately (for this article) things didn't look like that at all. Seongnam players probably taken Shimizu too lightly and when they lost the first goal they started to foul and physically challenge Shimizu players... After first half Shimizu's Takagi and North Korean Kang who were fouled and almost injured (Takagi has injured his ankle earlier in the game as it turned out) were taken off the pitch. I've also read that the best occasion for Seongnam to score was when they hit the bar after free kick near the end of the first half (yes, that 'biased', '3rd-rate' referee gave them a good goal scoring position in front of Shimizu's goal!). Ghotbi after the game that the team can't handle more injured players (in the January game Shinji Ono was injured also), not because the referee was so bad. If you're not believing me watch the highlights from the game (starts @3:56)[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X1JD2r1-QQ"]20120217 ??????????????? - YouTube[/ame] All I can say that even from the highlights there should be two straight red cards (not yellows which the 'biased' referee shows to Seongnam players). This a practice game and they tried to break legs! If Shin would like to make any stupid excuses then he can go to Spain instead of Kagoshima if he wishes as that's lees expensive (lol!). He'll play there with goats and cows as he won't find any team which will want to play with Seongnam in February... Not to mention that if that's the real form of Seongnam right now he won't go for another training camp with this team at all. Few days ago during the game between Suwon and Tosu everything was going smoothly until Korean defender punched without the ball Tosu's FW Tomita... I don't know why it has to happen every year.
Heated argument begins in 3 ... 2 ... 1 though I don't believe a single moment that Shimizu's players were looking for blood.
There won't be any heated arguments as there's video and anybody with two eyes can see what happened... It happens every year, there's nothing to discuss. I just wanted to make some things straight after reading that article.
Tomita was punched straight in the face (Korean player won as Tomita ended on the ground ) during a practice game between newly promoted to J1 Sagan Tosu and Suwon Bluewings in Okinawa on 11.02. Suwon won the game 1:0. This kind of stuff. Each year pre season is full of such things. Only this article was really poor.
Not surprising. Still remember that Jeonbuk - Urawa in 2007. I feel nothing more or less than pity for such practices. Arab refs must be getting a lot of money for such biased referring.