Cry to you: the judges in Israel turn us all into whiners - voila! sport

Summary of the Toto Cup final: Maccabi Netanya - Hapoel Beer Sheva 0:0 (4:5 on penalties) (Sport1)

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The emotional upheaval sparked this week by the Toto Cup final held at the municipal stadium in Petah Tikva was surprising, even for those who can no longer be surprised.

Who would have believed that the third most important title in Israeli football could arouse so much emotion and anger, at the end of a game that ended 0:0 in front of 8,800 spectators.

How much anger, what a riot, and in the end a team that did not score a single goal on its way to the title lifts the trophy with great pride.

Although a trophy is a trophy, a title is a title, that's what it is, yet every year it's hard to believe how excited teams are about the podium status and celebrating the victory in this negligible enterprise, which when it starts in the hot month of August fails to interest even the most ardent sports fans.

But nothing can stop the raging bull known as Israeli football, which has specialized for years in the ability to take marginal events and inflate them to spectacular proportions.

And here we just roll the word "spectacular" on our tongues and the voice of Zuhair Bahlul comes to mind, who in our childhood would pepper the radio broadcasts with pompous images in his attempt to describe faltering football moves, but the years have passed and everything is visible to the eye, there is no longer any need to imagine in our head because everything is visible, but a phenomenon The "Zohir-Bahlulism" remains in place, with a football community committed to the game with such devotion, that manages to take an event like the Toto Cup final, and make headlines from it for days, following expressions that are pulled from the hip and have already lost their original meaning: stormy game, traditional rivalry and refereeing scandals.

The easiest thing is to blame him, maybe the union will investigate why?

The judge (photo: Barney Ardov)

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If we talk about "Spectacular", then one cannot help but wonder what is behind Hapoel Beer Sheva's attempt to incite all its anger towards Eitan Shmoelevich and the referees union.

Accuse him of being wrong because he is a fan of Maccabi Netanya?

The referee who missed one of the most violent offenses recently seen in football, who missed a decisive penalty in favor of Netanya - is he biased in their favor?

After all, every Israeli soccer fan knows that the referees here are equally weak.

Everyone is discriminated against equally.

Nadav Yacovi once said about the Spanish league broadcasts that "if both Barcelona and Real fans complain about me being biased, it means I did a good job", and apparently the union also adopted this approach: their goal is for everyone to feel that they are biased.

upset all teams on an equal level.

To make a mistake in every game, to make sure that it happens every weekend, in every report of the auditing committee, the main thing is consistency and breadth, not to miss any opportunity, so that no one can claim that he is disadvantaged.

This is exactly why Beer Sheva's natural tendency was to attack the judges: they are the immediate suspect, the first culprit, the easiest.

And not because they are victims, but thanks to the respectable status they achieved in football: being the weakest in the industry.

After all, over the years Israeli football presented a long and varied series of failures, but it seems that among the audience it is already a consensus: the referees are at the lowest level.

More than the players, more than the fans, more than the coaches, more than the broadcasts.

Yes, you won.

No football fan in the world likes referees, this is not something that is unique to Israel, but here their presence is too dominant.

It's not just the fact that every week even the most ardent VAR haters discover how much this system saves our referees from embarrassing and crucial mistakes.

The problem is with the reactions of the judges' union.

in his defiant presence.

If the cliché claims that "a good judge is an invisible judge", in Israel they insist on dancing on the tables.

They react at every opportunity, attack without hesitation, argue, get into media battles.

Later this week comes the audit committee's analysis, and no one is impressed by it either.

If she backs up the referee, that was to be expected, who believes the referee. If she claims that the referee was wrong, it is even more outrageous, and we knew from the beginning that he was wrong. They are already in a position where whatever they do, is upsetting. Their negative influence on the game continues as well Long after it ends.

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Even the opponents of VAR understand: in Israel he saves the referees week after week (Photo: Barney Ardov)

3.

Because here comes the problem surrounding the judgment in Israel: it increases the atmosphere of the victims.

After all, everyone is dangerous in Israeli football.

The court deprives everyone, it gives excessive and insensitive collective punishments to everyone, they are all victims of the violent police in the stands, they all suffer all the time, they deserve more.

The referees only perpetuate the trend: there is no half that does not end with the coach running towards the referee on the way down to the locker room, there is no game that does not end with a complaining player who knows he has been knocked out by an unskilled referee again, there is no press conference where the coach does not address some injustice done to his team.

There have been some difficult days for the industry.

While the security cameras in Tottenham's stadium accurately followed the fan who kicked the Arsenal goalkeeper, in Israel a whole stadium will pay the price because of some idiots who cursed Tawatcha.

In Jerusalem, policemen again beat fans outside the stadium, the news again interviewed Abramov.

In "Kan" they broadcast an article with hard evidence about selling games, and the reaction of the fans was "come on, tell us something we don't know".

Bitterness and sourness dominate the industry (some of the prominent commentators in the field are angry and negative), and if in the past all the negativity was directed at the national team, today the anger is towards the court, the police and the judges.

All the law enforcers, who give the impression that we are promiscuous.

We will use this opportunity to wish good luck to the referee of this season's game, may you not be the story.

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• Eitan Shmuelevich

• The Judges Association