Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Football makes friends......my a............sorry


"Football is really explosive" (Picture courtesy of Norwegian Press) Posted by Hello

Football is going sour....it's not safe anymore to take your kids to a football-match...either they learn racistexpressions or they see the "disturbing" attitude of both players and fans when not all is ok on the field....
If we continue in this direction, soon all the troublesome arena' s will either get closed or manned with riot police (Suggestion: use the Belgian Rijkswacht and your troubles are over before you know it), although the latter case might even create a new catastrophe as in the Heijssel stadium for so many years ago, an event I watched together with Sebastiaan in total disbelief....
When you see what Hooligans do and will do, I think that the UEFA has to take some severe measures to get rid of this kind of people, even on the field....
Fans.....search them when entering the arena, no sales of hard liquors or beer, no flags, no flagpoles etc, sad but it might help for a couple of years until everybody has cooled down and gets the picture...
Players on the field........use of a elbow - red card...before somebody gets killed...sliding from behind (before the last WC the FIFA told the referees to use the red card for this - what happened? - right..NOTHING....)red card...big mouth - green card (from the hockey field, 2 minutes out!, works great) more big mouth....red card.....
To let you see the picture of lasts nights game between AC Milan and Internazionale: a frustrated Inter used their big mouth with every opportunity and the referee only once used yellow....and in the actual moment, when the referee clearly made a mistake (video shows NOBODY made any fault in front of the goal) the same frustrated guy who scored a clean goal opened his mouth and gets yellow and after that it exploded as one could see....
Even good referee's make mistakes and of course you can protest, that's your right, but you have to keep it within the rules of the game.....
I really hope the UEFA/FIFA this time makes a harsh example of what this kind of bad behaviour will provoke by means of the "punishment" they will give Internazionale.........poor guys....De Telegraaf of today showed a picture of 2 players of both ACMilan and Inter, arms around each other, looking at the inferno on the field, unable to "get it" and to stop it....football is playing for bankruptcy this way........