oh please ryan, that's just nonsense. in any football game there are dozens of "game-deciding episodes" and only a few of them (2 or 3) usually relate to a referee's call. every tackle (or missed tackle), every shot on goal, every cross, every save from the gk is a critical episode in a game.
to say that a ref is the main "force" acting on a football game is simply wrong.
to ignore every other critical episode in a game and to focus only on the refereeing is a decision
u make. and i respect that. but u just can't say that refereeing is the deciding factor in a football game because that's nonsense.
u decide to focus mostly on the refereeing because evidently that's what interests u the most. and i respect that. i'm in no position to tell anyone what they should be talking about, of course. i merely pointed out that in the entire 2 pages before my post, there wasn't a single comment on the game played by both teams; just an uninterrupted series of posts commenting on the refereeing.
there's a difference between "
mentioning the refereeing" and "
not being able to stop talking about it" or "
not wanting to talk about anything else that happened on the pitch".
i didn't complain because u guys "mentioned" the ref's mistakes. i complained because u guys couldn't talk about anything else (big difference!) and i thought it was boring as hell.....
but clearely i must be the only one who finds it boring, so i'll just let u guys continue without bothering u anymore.
just let me say one thing:
it is possible to consider the refereeing as just one aspect of a football game and to simply mention it, and then move on to talk about football. u guys just decide not to. and that's ok. but that's your call. and the mere fact that u can't stop moaning about the refs doesn't make them the most important actors on a football pitch.
