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| Referees: a day to forget.
A discussed time over penalty allows the Perugia, stunned till then by the Batitusta's counterattack, getting to a tie with the leading team; someone talks about a saved championship. If there were a victory the violas would had get to + 5 before the following chaser, that is the Parma. That sees now on the finishing straight the possibility to pick up. Yesterday the Emilia players proved their maturity and reliability imposing them on a not easy field as that of Empoli. The Tuscany team leaded twice before undergoing the vehement yellow blue comeback. As at Perugia , also in Tuscany the polemics for the presumed referees' errors. A goal by Parma players clearly offside, another of the Empoli player Di Napoli clearly vitiated by a handball. Last 1998 championship day does not present anything new; under indictment the black jackets for the oversights at Milan, Piacenza and Genoa. Who drove so designations were drawn, relying on luck matches nevertheless meriting significant lists, now faces the wave of an angry public opinion for the repeated mistakes of the referees. Useless to take part about angels' sex; the truth is that modern football must fall into disuse some conservative customs and be abreast with the times. It is played at mad rhythms, vertiginous front reversals and mistakes being television slow motion detected into their minimum terms, Sunday afternoon. A deadly cocktail for any human being, even if a referee. No, it is not enough neither a referee to cover the 110 metres field nor are enough the two linesmen that guess an offside and one not. Due to physics law, if conditions change it is right to take new measures. And at the 2000 football, plenty of burning sprints, sudden changes in direction and why not, of cheaters and simulators, merits something different from the "all against referee". The most suitable proposal must be the introduction of another referee, whose task is to control the middle field, interacting with his colleague and at the same time employing the linesmen indications for the not clear situations, having a limited range of action. Well then, less spaces controlled and more quality in decision . To avoid that a Roberto Baggio's diving in Inter-Roma costs the Petruzzi expulsion and the yellow-red sink undergoing a black-azure poker. That a climbing Bari does not see his nine matches positive trend broken, besides the Strippa's great goal, also thanks the splendid goal marked by the little jewel Zambrotta , but inexplicably declared void. That the Milan corsair at Genoa with only two points from the leading team the Fiorentina is picked up and driven out again to -4 for an oversight at the utmost area, punished by a magisterial penalty by. That, in short, a beautiful, championship, captivating and balanced were decided finally without the useless dart of fans and presidents, angry with the usual scapegoat. Maybe, even the golden football world could become responsible itself a little more, without appealing anymore to the usual boring and expected vocabulary of the 'ifs' and 'buts'. |