There was always an arbitration issue in Spain, discussions about the appointment system, anger, pillows and even bottles when they were present until they were banned, just after a cup final between Madrid and Barça, with an arbitration process that infuriated the madridistas But in Generally, the system was accepted, arbitration was seen as a matter of luck, with the proviso that it was taken for granted that there were more heads than tails for the powerful, but in what area of life does that not happen? ? “There will always be rich and poor” was a phrase that stuck in our minds.
But the distrust in the very nature of the system is the first I see now and I fear that was the most relevant post from the VAR, delegating the responsibility of a man who may or may not have seen anything like it, out of sheer fear whistled into a foggy room occupied by three sane beings comfortably seated and within reach with the latest technology. Now the doubts are bigger. First there is when the VAR occurs and when it doesn’t; then that when it occurs it gives us no satisfaction without there being any way of explaining it. Elche’s lucky goal in Cádiz enters the first section; in the second, the expulsion of the Betic Luiz Felipe for the excitement of Iago Aspas when he simply took the ball out of his hands. The referee and linesman stabbed, but what about the VAR?
I’ll cite two recent cases, but after so many months of VAR, every hobbyist has its half-dozen cases in its closet where old frustration turns to petulant impotence when you feel like the victim of a cynical taunt. Paradoxically, although VAR has made penalties from outside the box impossible and is able to assess whether you were offside or not with the precision of a Japanese chicken sexer, it has lost the credibility of the system. That, marinated with the tampering with the regulations, that upsets us all.
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And here we just needed to know that Barça pays to the vice president of the CTA for 18 years and four presidents. And if on top of that this seems to have bothered everyone except Real Madrid, the only one not to sign the accusation, the conclusion of the rest is inevitable: this is a cape haven where those who snap the capes are usually two.
The association wanted to provide bad medicine on Thursday. I understand your surprise: their current leaders were not – that happened in the years of Villar and his Villarato – so far removed that we do not find that the current CTA leadership has cast suspicion on their careers over the long period. It doesn’t bother her, but it’s not nice.
The act on Thursday was grotesque. All the referees gathered to put their hands on fire for one another and pilloried Estrada Fernández, the only one who denounced Enríquez Negreira out of notoriety, malice or righteous behavior, he proposes an omertà effect that still makes the matter dirtier.
The elephant – whose head is Enríquez with his collecting trunk, his trunk is Barça, his four legs are Gaspart, Laporta, Rosell and Bartomeu, and his fertilized tail is the son – was named between small and nothing. Of course, the secretary of the federation took the opportunity to collect a debt with his allusion (he lacked gallantry to name him) to Albert Soler for working at Barça de Bartomeu and then finishing number two to the CSD three years later this filthy scammer. Hours later, it would transpire that “they are considering suing him” for his silence. Are you thinking of suing the one who didn’t tell (if he knew) and not those who did, Enríquez and the four presidents of Barça? And not only that, they also skin the one that Enríquez sued, Estrada Fernández?
Omertà, sacrifice of the dissident, settlement with a passer-by who wanted to bring Rubiales from the CSD to the TAD. Less blame on the conspirators. That left the appearance of Andreu Camps and Medina Cantalejo (in minutes the first won 32-9). Let’s just say it wasn’t reassuring. For his part, Rubiales was not there. A trip prevented him. It doesn’t seem big enough to add to your agenda.
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