One half in Haifa is behind us, two rounds and a half to end the season.
What was supposed to end in a light, fast and elegant championship season, suddenly became a heavy and sweaty event that got tangled up for almost no apparent reason.
Hapoel BS and Maccabi Tel Aviv are the big rivals of Maccabi Haifa - but the really big enemy of the outgoing and incoming champions - is Maccabi Haifa itself.
She is more dominant in this half as well, but her shadow and she herself chase after each other and put everyone in a spasm that grips the body, rather than releasing.
Celebrating with Goldberg, Photo: Alan Schieber
A minute after Haziza's goal was disqualified, Maccabi Tel Aviv, a big team already wearing flip-flops by the sea, galloped on the other side. Length and width of the stands.
Thirty years after Israeli football was admitted to Europe, the disciplinary tribunals here are acting like field courts in South America's military junta, and because of mental and operational laziness, closing stands in stadiums, preventing tens of thousands of decent fans from arriving - creating chaos I begin to suspect.
It turns out that maintenance personnel are forced to hang between heaven and earth to install nets that will divide the fan camps, to prevent an event that could develop into a new kind of chaos.
On the field are two patients known to each other from time to time.
Haifa was a bit released from the pathology of these encounters, but the last few weeks and the demonstrations of the champion's weakness and laxity have raised questions about which demon will come out of the bottle first - the yellow, or the demons that accompany Haifa.
The fans celebrated a championship,
Its audience is waiting for the new, natural, reasonable order to be restored, in which a team that is better than its opponent throughout the season in most parameters will close interest and take its 14th championship in less than 40 years (compared to only 9 of Maccabi Tel Aviv during this period).
In these bad minutes, when Maccabi Tel Aviv almost finished the game with a completely legal second goal, the championship only got closer to Haifa because BS was behind.
Then, where there are no people to take their fate into their own hands - there is one man, Charon Sherry.
I thought that would be enough to transfer the crown of the player of the season, who had already settled on the head of Noble, to the head of Cherry.
And they are still losing on penalties.
It's bad for them to have Maccabi Tel Aviv, but how good it is to have Hapoel Tel Aviv.
Second consecutive championship, Photo: Alan Schieber
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