Langengeisling and Schwaig: Controversial referee decisions

We never do otherwise, but for once we talk about referee decisions on Erdings football pitches.

Basically, we hold back when it comes to controversial referee decisions.

In the rarest of cases we were there ourselves.

And then it has not yet been said whether we saw it better than the trained eye of the referee or his assistants.

Today we want to make an exception.

Or rather, three exceptions.

Let's start with the district league game of FC Langengeisling, who conceded the 2: 2 against TSV Siegsdorf in the 100th minute with a hand penalty.

This penalty decision was justified.

But we're dealing with the fringes, especially dialogues.

Here is the first:

Referee Lukas Seider: "Do you want a yellow card or a red card?"

FCL player Douglas Wilson: "Yellow."

Rieder: "I knew you had no balls in your pants."

The referee said: “That is definitely not true.” This is an insulting allegation.

He also denies that he shouted back to Maximilian Hintermaier's accusation (“Today you gave us a clean whistle”): “And you played shit.” That is not true because he never evaluates a player's performance, said Seider.

The FCL holds against it: "There are several witnesses for both incidents, including the sports director of TSV Siegsdorf, who can confirm that the referee uttered the insults to the players" The sports court is also available, which is now setting the penalty for Hintermaier, who saw red in this action.

Another - we would like to correct that here - did not see red at this game. FCL boss Sepp Kaiser was not, as reported, sent off the field.

Like many other spectators, he just stood by the gang that the referee had evicted because some fans expressed their displeasure.

We are curious to see how the sports court will comment on the events. It could also be helpful that a referee observer was on site. Incidentally, both are happy about that: The Geislingers, because the neutral man could confirm that no spectators wanted to gain access to the cabin - as Seider apparently claimed in his report. And Seider, who had the observation talk immediately after the game because he thinks that he was a good leader of the game. The FCL sees it a little differently: “The game was a fair game played by both sides over the entire season, which was contested with normal duels. On the part of the players, there were no debates or arguments among themselves. After the heated final phase, this was also confirmed by the staff of the guest team. "

We don't want to talk about the decisions made during the game.

Maybe it would be easier if there were video decisions for that.

But it doesn't always help either.

FC Schwaig, for example, could use the recordings to show that in the game against Unterföhring when the score was 2: 2, a guest kicker should actually have been thrown off the pitch with yellow and red.

The culprit, however, hid after a foul, and so the referee showed the wrong player the yellow card.

The referee saw the mistake.

The game leader of the national league recommended the FC to lodge a protest, especially since the game was still 3: 7 lost.

The chances are not that bad either.

But the FC did not want to get into the mills of sports jurisdiction.

Or as press spokesman Rainer Hellinger put it: "That was not worth all the rubbish to us."

We come to case three, which shows once again that referees can very well admit a mistake. In this case, chairman Knut Friedrich set the best example: “Sorry, it was my Klops. Shouldn't have happened to me. ”In the match between FC Finsing and TSV Wartenberg with Julian Bauer, he assigned a referee who is an active player at league rivals SC Kirchasch. Friedrich noted that "the district league referees do not grow on the trees here". The division of the games is therefore not that easy. But sending people from league competitors - "even if Julian is an impeccable sportsman" - is not the optimal solution. Wartenberg's trainer Richard Maierthaler did not want to comment on the subject. That is understandable: TSV's opponent this weekend is? Right.The SC Kirchasch with Julian Bauer.

DIETER PRIGLMEIR