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what is your part About the complaints against the refereeing in the Premier League this season - voila! sport

2023-04-16T08:49:07.685Z


It's a bad season for the referees' association and the association will have to make a change, but what about the part of Becher, Karanka and Zahabi in losing the points?


Summary of Hapoel Jerusalem's victory 1:2 over Maccabi Haifa (Sport1)

Eran Zahavi misses like a rookie and opens mouth on the referees, Aitor Karanka tries to escape responsibility and complains about Naal Odeh who ran to the dressing room, Dolev Haziza stings Idan Leiva, and Barak Becher would like to hear the conversation between the match referee and the VAR referees.

And the fans?

They have long since lost faith in the referees, and especially in the VAR referees.

If you ask the fans, the referees are generally wrong on purpose.

Some of them have an interest in Maccabi Haifa winning, others have an interest in Maccabi Tel Aviv winning, and all of them have an interest in Hapoel Beer Sheva not winning the championship.



Everyone has a criticism of the judgment, everyone complains, everyone has a feeling of deprivation.

And the truth?

Even if the criticism is sometimes excessive, even if there are parties (whiny players and coaches and certain commentators) who like to lynch the referees - everyone is right.

Something bad is happening to the referees this season, something very bad is happening in the sterile VAR rooms.

And this feeling, which repeats and increases as the decisive moments in the Premier League get closer to the end of the season, severely detracts from the great celebration that this season gives us.



It is very frustrating that the media's focus should be on the referees and not on the incredible achievements of two small teams (with excellent coaches) who managed to remind us all how important it is to have teams of their kind in the Premier League.

With all due respect to greatness, without Hapoel Jerusalem and Ashdod it was possible to officially give Maccabi Haifa the championship plate.

Messing with the judges does injustice to Ziv Aryeh and Ran Ben Shimon and this is not the first time.



But there is something good about the errors of judgment that were in Teddy and Bloomfield on Saturday.

The thesis that has been with us for decades, about the referees going with the big teams and harming the small teams - has collapsed.

In both cases, the two biggest clubs in Israeli football feel deprived and two so-called small teams, this time benefited from both the referees and the VAR judges.

It is already a novelty.

From now on the coaches of the small teams will have to look for other excuses after losses.

Suddenly the big groups feel disadvantaged.

Maccabi Haifa players with Idan Leiva (Photo: Barney Ardov)

We will return to the problem with the judging this season (soon we will also get to the complaints of Zahavi, Karanka and others).

Eitan Tabrizi, a former senior judge and today a member of the Professional Committee of the Judges Union, said exactly two years ago: "There are mistakes we are not ready to accept."

Yariv Teper, the veteran referees' union CEO, said after the World Cup that the union would discuss the number of cases in which the VAR referees would intervene in the game. After the criticism a few months ago about cup matches without VAR, Teper said: "I don't think they (the referees) Can't do without it."



Judging by the refereeing mistakes this season, it turns out that the member of the professional committee of the referees' association certainly lives in peace with the many refereeing mistakes. Brizzi may not be ready to accept them, but the referees keep making them. And the CEO Teffer, we hope , understands today that the referees have difficulty getting along with the VAR systems as well.

It turns out, Mr. Tapper, that the referees can't get along with the VAR and without the VAR.

This is how it looks.



The first decision made by Shino Zoertz immediately after he was elected chairman of the football association was to introduce the VAR system to the State Cup matches already in the round of 16. Zoertz knows more than a word or two in the field of computers, he is very sensitive to criticism and is a very successful businessman, largely because he is suitable always himself for the new age in the world of computers. He is even one of the largest importers of the most developing cameras in the world.



Unlike the fans, Zoertz knows that these are human errors, but the very feeling that the referees and the VAR systems will decide the destinies of teams here, the very fact that among many (not only fans) The feeling is that there is no uniformity in the decisions of the referees, there is no uniformity in the intervention of the VAR judges and in the final decision of the referee himself, is the root of the decrease in trust in these systems.

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that the referees cannot get along with the VAR and without the VAR.

Director General of the Union of Judges, Yariv Teper (Photo: Shlomi Gabai)

So it's true, some of the criticism of the players and coaches is exaggerated, some of the broadcasters and commentators make an effort to be a substitute for the referee on the field (sometimes also in VAR) and even immediately send the wrong referee to the wall.

But even though the oppression is sometimes unjustified, even though it sometimes turns out that the feeling of deprivation is a feeling that does not meet reality, Zoertz has the responsibility to make decisions.

And not just to make the feelings go away.



It is true that the soccer federation does not have the budget for a more sophisticated system (as was the case in the World Cup), Zoertz does not have the option of equipping the referees with an artificial intelligence system, but he can (and must) act right now to reduce the background noise that ruins our viewing celebration.

Regarding the next season, Zoertz should take care of a significant upgrade in the VAR systems and make sure to minimize the technical and human failures of the systems.



Misjudgments were and will be.

Were before the VAR and will be after, even if the systems are the most sophisticated in the world.

In the best leagues in Europe there are errors of judgment, in the World Cup there were errors of judgment, but here we have errors that can be prevented a large part of them.

It is impossible to demand the VAR referees to avoid mistakes if the system itself does not allow them to make the right decision.

But it is possible and should (for now) reduce the fact that each head referee, each VAR referee, exercises a different discretion in all the areas in which the VAR referees have permission to intervene.



It looks bad.

Very bad even.

Eran Zahavi said at the end of the match against Ashdod that the referees union is enthusiastic about reporting on the courses and lectures that the referees go through and in practice this is not reflected on the pitches.

In this case Zahavi is right.

Recently Eliniv Barda said that the referees give lectures and teach the players and coaches the new rules of the game, and they themselves do exactly the opposite on the courts.

Breda is also right in this case.

There are judges who excel in the theory test, but fail in the test itself.

Sometimes, from watching TV, it looks like the mistakes are made on purpose.

of course not.

But that's the feeling.

And that is exactly the problem.



The referees' union does not like to receive criticism (who does?) Shino Zoertz prays that the league ends peacefully, and in order for his prayers to be answered above - he must have the heads of the union and the professional committee immediately provide training and refreshment to the referees.

for everyone.

Including all teams of VAR referees.

The issue of uniformity in decisions can be handled easily.

with ease

The problems with the lack of uniformity in whistles for penalties, in drawing red cards, and in the addition of time can be easily solved.

In one lecture, even through zoom.

Regarding the limitations of the VAR system, we can only pray that we will not reach many cases like this before the end of the season, and act now to find a budget to upgrade the system next season.

Sometimes players and coaches seem to blame the referees to escape failure.

Nael Odeh yesterday in the match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and M.S.

Ashdod (Photo: Ariel Shalom)

Let's go back to Zahabi, Karanka, Becher, Haziza and the rest: it seems that this is going to be the whining season of the coaches and players.

Many of them have developed software on how to incite their failure towards the judges.

It is impossible to hide the mistakes of the referees this season, but the whining of the players themselves has also become unbearable.

The angry movements of the players (Zahavi in ​​the lead), the harsh statements against them after the final whistle is part of the game, but there are those who have turned it into the game itself.



We will come back and emphasize that this is not a season in which the association should hand out prizes to the judges at the end.

But that's no reason to throw the mud at them every time you miss in front of an empty net, or every time you lose points.

Let's not talk about coaches who sometimes forget their part in losing the points.

Sometimes it seems they blame the referees to escape responsibility for the failure.

And sometimes they infect with them broadcasters and commentators who like to divert the fire towards the judges.



Let's take for example Maccabi Tel Aviv's draw and Maccabi Haifa's loss on Saturday.

In both cases, the judges received sharp criticism.

Even if partly justified, has this criticism prevented the primary engagement with the mistakes of Cranka and Bacher in the build-up to the match?

Managing the game?

In the many misses (especially Zahavi's)?

Was there any discussion or was there any criticism of the selfish play of the Maccabi Haifa players that prevented the scoring of additional goals?

God forbid.



At the end of the two games at Teddy and Bloomfield, the feeling is that Haifa lost and Maccabi Tel Aviv did not win - only because of the referees.

Who said that only Netanyahu is running away from responsibility?

How does the Prime Minister try to justify his failure in running the country?

He blames the previous government for his own failures.

And how do Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Tel Aviv try to justify their failure on Shabbat?

They put the blame on the judges.



On Saturday, in the case of Maccabi Tel Aviv, even the fans already understood the bluff.

Don't get confused - this season there were terrible judgment errors, there were crazy decisions by the VAR, but there were just as many successions of coaches, players and commentators who had to (in some cases) eat the hat.

In the distant past, the association brought referees from abroad to deciding games. The refereeing mistakes abroad (which are even more embarrassing) stopped this procedure, but in order to restore trust in the referees and the VAR system - Zoertz must start during the break in the association a trend to refresh the constitution that will lead to uniformity in refereeing .

  • sport

  • Israeli soccer

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Source: walla

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