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the ugly side of football
it was difficult to watch the match between arsenal and man united and not taking sides. as i was not a fan of both teams, i thought i could at least remain neutral while watching the game.
when two giants meet, we can always expect a little drama and lots of excitement through the full 90 minutes. however, the clash between the gunners and the red devils last sunday was a nightmare for a football fan like me.
in a game where referee and linesman are as important as the players, i expect a referee to be above everybody else on the field, for 90 minutes at least. it's simply tragic to watch mike riley made one blunder after another and another and another throughout the whole 94 minutes. he had in my humble opinion brought disgrace to the refeering world, he was up there with the like of the ecuadorean referee Byron Moreno whose bad judgment evoked the wrath of the italian fans during the 2002 world cup.
when you watched the game as a neutral, you would think that the referee might have leaned more towards the man united players or in short, biased. i thought several tackles by the man united players were simply atrocious. how could riley turn a blind eye on such occasions, i did wonder. the bad tackle from behind on reyes could finish his career, so was the tackle on ashley cole. you could see how the neville brothers pounced on reyes everytime they got a chance and you could not help but think that those two villains were trying to force reyes out of the game through injury and that was simply vicious.
i dont know about everybody else but i have noticed that referees tend to be a little biased towards big teams. i've seen it happen in milan's game and also real madrid. even though i'm a milan fan, it doesnt mean that i like it when a referee turns a blind eye when the players became "a little naughty".
harsh tackles could end an opponent's career but it can be avoided if a referee is fair and firm. mere warnings wont stop players from doing just that because they think they can get away with it. that's what happened in the recent game between arsenal and man united.
diving and theatrical acts by the players also disgust me. the way they play, i think they dont know the meaning of fairplay. i felt really "tired" watching the game and emotionally wrought. the football game on sunday though entertaining was marred by scandal that questioned the integrity of both referees and players. i for once did not enjoy my sunday night football.
sheesh! i am missing Signore Pierluigi Collina, who has retired from international football. he is of course one of a kind. fortunately, i can still watch him in action in serie a
last modified Oct 28, 2004 at 19:14
eh....ye la.....kita pun tk minat bola.
alahh sis..
kita tak minat bolalahhhh
I've not given myself a chance to speak of this game as much as everyone has been talking about. One is because it's tires me to argue with the man u's fans with the so called "awesome" game for them. Anyway, since you're like the only other person who's admittedly neutral, I prefer to speak here.
I get fumed when they said, referees too are human, so they make mistakes. Mistakes don't happen such insignificantly if it's not because the referee opted to. He should by all means be trashed into the garbage of atrocious referees along side with Moreno(who apparently still wants to have a referee institution as he figured he needs to mould referees. Wth?) Anyway as for Riley, sad thing is, with what he had done, it wouldn't change the game, FA would only take actions after the game, after which no one bothers about it anymore. And how can this players sleep peacefully with such games they single handedly know they made ALOT of fouls, better yet, be proud with the fouls they weren't caught with and win it.
Human minds, they just overwhelm me. This is the side football is football the world recognize. Sigh. But it's just one game. They made a fuss as if they won the entire world with one game. The ego. Yeah well, it's football, I should really get use to this after 5 years of breathing it.
Selamat berpuasa 
ps: I miss that alien headed Collina. He's definately priceless
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