Bang a couple in Phoenix! Stop wasting our time.
As for being offensive I wasn’t the one calling our player a diver.
As for being offensive I wasn’t the one calling our player a diver.
Most people consider accusing the refereeing team of racial bias as more offensive than calling a football player a diver, for anyone playing along at home.
I mean Buffy called them corrupt. That offensive? Also statistically probable with the flood of gambling syndicates there’s more influence in the local game than has come out. You seem less bothered by that. Particularly as the new latitude in calling a foul given the reasons for denying the pens and that the onfield referee rejected the VAR recommendation twice, would seem to create more risk of this.
The Anglo nations grew up with stereotypes that Asians and Latin Americans were divers.
It’s fair to ask seeing 3 of the pens were not given to Japanese players if the refs were asking if the player ‘deserved it’, rather than was that a foul.
Calling someone a diver, just like saying black students make great athletes, can be racist if it’s in the context of a previously harmful stereotype. Or the other charming one that went around in rugby (and cricket for that matter) that island players were good cattle, but couldn’t play the decision making positions. White generals etc.
That’s for you, not for anyone playing along at home.
And sure we’ve talked about players like Daniel and Davila adjusting to the refs, but that doesn’t mean it’s not on the refs to call a foul a foul. Just because you’ll prosper if you work the ref like Brattan or Isais, doesn’t change the laws of the game.
There’s no way of proving it unless the ref says it was a factor. But it’s there in the Anglo football culture.
Another past issue has been Aussie officials reffing Aussie v non-Aussie teams, like the cricket in the 80s. The Snedden catch etc. The hot spot marks on the back of the bat that ‘could have come from anywhere.’ Maybe that’s a factor. Same issue of proof.
And as Coochie said it seemed like Alex King made a make up call or a horrible decision in Moreno’s favour at Go Media.
There’s been at least 5 questionable decisions in the last two rounds, including seemingly redefining what a foul is with a large latitude for the onfield ref and several of those have seen the onfield ref disagree with the VAR.
Anyway, someone mentioned it in the week that Aussies go into bat for their team. That’s across their society generally imo. They advertise ‘buy Aussie’ kinda aggressively, if someone had a go at you, they’ll back you if you’re their guy. It’s certainly a factor at Go Media, Coopers and AAMI imo. It gets me to see Nix fans not backing our players more than anything.
Anyway, sorry for getting a bit aggro in the last couple of match threads. I’ll read what they’re all saying and try and understand this brave new world of which fouls are which. Burn all the old Shoot annuals etc.
J league starting again and my team here really and truly are a team that seem to have settled for finishing down the table. 4-5 seasons of toying with relegation. No yo-yoing here, but a great match day experience anyway. Very chill! But they did win some silverware my first year here, so still doing better than the Nix.
Bloody glad Hughes got his goal though. Came close the other week. Thoroughly deserved.