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   Azkals
   

   The First Azkal
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   The Starstruck Referee

   
   By Azkals.com

   Professional football in the Philippines is still in its infancy. Maybe not really a full blown professional yet, but I'm pretty sure we are going that way.

   With it are growing pains of some sort is inevitable, including the referees' officiating.

   I was in Cagayan de Oro to watch the PFF Smart Club Championships last August 9, and I witnessed some of those first times. In the pre-match ritual, I saw for the first eleven players holding hands with kids in soccer attire.

   In the first match between Smart San Beda FC and Bao Breakers. A lot peoples' eyes men and women were glued to the players in red and white especially to the media darlings James and Phil Younghusband.

   Women were shrieking every time the Younghusbands hold the ball. We all knew that women and a few gay men's admiration of the Younghusbands are in the matters of heart.

   But there's one man on the pitch was secretly admiring one of the Younghusband brothers, specifically James. This man's sexual orientation is still to be known, but basing on his appalling officiating, it led me to think that he loves James Younghusband.

   My suspicions started when referee Wilfredo Bermejo controversially slapped a yellow card on Micko Pendang of Bao Breakers. It was a corner kick, another San Beda player was in the corner to kick the leather, James was close to the kicker, probably waiting for the ball to pass to him. Pendang who was inside the box, quickly ran to mark James Younghusband, but the latter elbowed Pendang. Pendang was not physicall at all, but too close.

   The whistle sounded, the referee ran to both players, picked a card in his pocket. And faced the yellow card on the Bao Breakers player. Wow. Just wow.

   It did not end there.

   James Younghusband committed a lot of fouls on the opposing winger of Bao Breakers. Younghusband should have been given a card for the repeated fouls.

   I hope the PFF referees would learn from this, not getting starstruck or in love with our goodlooking football stars.

   People don't take my article seriously.

   Making football known in the Philippines.

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   Posted 8 months ago #
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   cezarwin
   

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   wahahahahaha nice one.

   Posted 8 months ago #
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   soccerpride
   

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   Love it!!! Unfortunately bad ref's, and referring is an evil very difficult to get rid of. It takes a lot to fix it, once it is broken. So I hope the PFF really looks at referring as a very serious, and honorable job.

   Sure we are going to get some bad "missed" calls from time to time, I mean come on, did you watch the last World Cup? Exactly!!! But blatant is unacceptable.

   We had an issue with a specific district within our youth soccer leagues, where the referring was out right blatant about their HORRIBLE calls. It only got better when the rest of the state realized how bad it was, and refused to hold those teams home games on their own turf. They FINALLY came around, and after a couple of seasons much better!

   Hopefully this ref's star-struck moment is been and gone, and will refocus next time around!

   Pride*Passion*Perseverance

   Posted 8 months ago #
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   Azkals
   

   The First Azkal
   Joined: Oct '08
   Posts: 1,314

   I posted this topic in the PFF group in Facebook. A retired ref corrected me. He told me about the "referee's discretion". It's up to the referee to decide the calls.

   Partly correct. But it's the most abused and controversial part of referring, the "ref's discretion."

   Below is a good (or is it bad?) example of "ref's discretion".

   NO fouls, NO offside, simply "REF'S DISCRETION"
   

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   Making football known in the Philippines.

   Posted 8 months ago #
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   soccerpride
   

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   Terrible call!!! I swear ref's need more training on off sides, because I see a lot of this go on. The AR's even if they make the right call, have to go with the center ref's call...I don't believe this ref understands the off side rule!!! There was a player that was slightly off side, but he was not in the play, so technically there is no off side...and that rule of using their own discretion is indeed controversial. For the most part these day's ref's really try, and the referring quality is getting better, but we do get those egocentric narcassists who just don't give a crap!!! The example you used above is one of the many HORRIBLE calls!!! How about the horrible call on Mexico, in the opening game? I betcha it was done that way because South Africa was the host country, and how could they have the game tip like this!!! Terrible calls sometimes change the tempo of the game, especially when its one after another...unbelievable...

   Pride*Passion*Perseverance

   Posted 8 months ago #

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