CAny reader who hopes to end this text by confirming that there is a Judeo-Masonic conspiracy for the Seville not finish second, or even among the top four, because at the Federation, the League, the television platforms, the mayor of a town in Cuenca or his own community of neighbors They have woven an evil plan to destroy the illusions of a football club like the one in Nervin, you better stop reading at this point. Of course, here we come to play and get wet about certain trends, movements and emboldened honestywhose innocent mixture are leaving the very Seville helpless and with no one to listen to him. First we analyze the what and then we move on to the possible whys. The consequences will be seen at the end of the football year, when Sevilla and its fans weigh whether they have been benefited or harmed. The soccer men say that it ends up balancing… Well, let the last ten opponents of the game be prepared. Seville because curves arrive. And the truth is that hearing what is said outside the Andalusian capital, between Martinez Munuera and Gil Manzano they embroider arbitration. It is what has to be great without seeming it. Or what is the same, let no one defend you. Neither the media, nor authorized spokespersons, not even the muffled cry of a coach who has a tremendous resentment outside the walls of Seville. Why be?
In the two actions Sevilla complainsI see him visual reason in the first and regulatory in the second. It is very simple. I have not yet seen an image (it is not worth a photo as they can be manipulated according to perspective) where Rafa Mir touch the ball with the arm. The VAR referee can sense it, thinking that since the striker has not ripped off his arm to control the ball, he must give it to him after touching his side and going down perpendicular to his body. Sure? It is not, but it applies the rule. Without seeing it, of course. It would not make sense to hide the image that would bury the controversy. Super slow motion view is that the ball doesn’t even change its trajectory as it passes in front of the arm. Conclusion? Torticera application. Let’s go to the penalty. Live I didn’t think so and in the repetition, less. There’s a struggle, hand on shoulder and a tower like Rafa Mir he goes to the ground before the canijo Catena. Munuera has no doubt. Gil Manzano rectifies his opinion. Is there contact? Yes. Is it re-arbitrated? Yes. Should the VAR enter into these assumptions? As Julen Lopetegui said: never. Not being me who criticizes a success of seconds, but the rules are the same for everyone. Or should be. And set to enter, the Beb stomp on Augustinsson (which the Swede claimed) is not reviewed either, ending in a goal by the player of the Lightning. And it looks very clear in the picture. They are not two plays, but three. Going back to the penalty, if we add to the nonsense of the hands the decision of the struggles from the monitor… And I wonder: If on television it had seemed like a penalty (I am not saying very clearly) and Munuera did not call it, would they notify him? I’m afraid not. It is not worth taking the norm where we are interested. Less on the part of those who must apply the laws. The issue is that Gil Manzano will referee this week and will have another partner in VAR. Will you behave in the same interventionist way? Until the refereeing corps and the VAR corps are not different, they hardly even know each other, the referee that everyone has inside will act from the monitor. As they say in a scene from Pirates of the Caribbean, the VAR regulations, more than being a code (of the pirates), are simple “guidelines”. Or so it seems.
And now we go to the particular case of Sevilla. From the change of address in the arbitration group, the coin has fallen more times tails than heads for the sevillistas. And that they have put at the controls a Sevillian referee as Medina Cantalejoto which the good tongues say that the winds drink for the team of the Sánchez-Pizjun. And here we enter this very old Caesar’s wife: “She must not only be, but appear to be”. Medina’s honesty has been called into question on more than one occasion. Incendiary tweets by clubs, public opinion campaigns against him (with unpleasant family consequences) and even read the media fire in terms of some powerful person who has been bothered by the slightest decision. because it is clear that arbitration is more marked by what they will say (public opinion and media) that by the call of a high soccer gyrfalcon. The great ones are whistled with greater respect. Always. Nor is it strange. However, those who aspire to be, to see that the equanimity cannot be questioned, they are arbitrated with a certain viciousness. Making it clear that they will not take advantage of their privileged position in the classification or the titles that they have won in their most recent stage. More than one new and brave referee has seen this course through Nervin. Be and seem. Seem it and by the way also be it. I still believe in arbitral honesty and even in the Spanish football system. And that does not mean that he believes that it has come to Sevilla It is absolutely wrong that Medina Cantalejo is the head of the referees. I don’t know if sing from afarbut up close it detunes, which is pleasing.
To the Seville he has no choice but to turn the page and clench his teeth. So strong. The season is played in two months. That terrible stretch with the injuries has erased his wide advantage, with which he has lived without too much stress for the last two months. Not winning away from home since January 3 It’s not the referee’s fault, it’s his own.. And perhaps I should assume that his relations with the national environment are not helping him either. Too many wanting him to fall from grace. Monchi only speaks with local media. Discarded the national spectacle for a long time. Only when the party obliges, as in the Bernabu. It feels strong in his bubble, but with so many pins pointing at it, it runs the risk of exploding sooner rather than later. I don’t think the stately stance of not entering into wars with more resonance in social networks than in real life is unreasonable. Nor that he submerge himself in the mud of putting an account with the name of a soccer player and ending in -ism at the head of his social media to kick every time you feel offended. Values must be displayed on all fronts, even if the time comes when you want to explode. And this year, between some things and others (it is not difficult to guess what they are), Sevilla has bitten its tongue so much who has been left speechless. And so it will continue, if nobody fixes it.
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