Burned
By: Richard | May 28th, 2009
There’s not much to say that I’m sure you are all not thinking.
The differences between tonights clash with the Fire and last weekend’s game against the Wizards are vast. Unlike Saturday, tonights game featured tempo, drive, and was not played on what appeared to be a little league baseball diamond. However, the one thing both games shared was…HORRIBLE OFFICIATING.
I’m not going to pontificate in detail how abysmal the refereeing has been during the last couple weeks, we can all agree on that. What matters now is how fast it improves. Because quite frankly, it doesn’t matter if we are the beneficiaries of terrible calls (as we were a couple times last weekend) or the victims (tonight). When we allow these kind of calls, it is the sport and the league itself that suffers.
After the game, Alexi Lalas (a man whom has done the MLS no favors the last few years) had this to say about McBride’s tumble:
” I know it’s hard for the American Sports mentality to understand, when you can draw a penalty…you do it”
Truth be told, diving is a big part of the European game. But by now Mr. Lalas should know that not everything that comes from Europe (bad hair, franchise player management, embarrassing sound bites) is a good thing.
10 Yellows
1 Red Card
3 Penalty Kicks
1 evening to forget
Category: Team News
Comments
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I watch the match and it looked like Terry did a great job the whole time. The only questionable call I could see was the very last penalty kick call, and that was only because we couldn’t get a good angle to repute it (At least they didn’t have one on ESPN 360). I don’t know what he has to do better to get it right. Both of the penalties that were on camera were easily penalties. The red card to Jesse Marsh he didn’t argue about at all, he knew it was a bad tackle that he shouldn’t have made.
I know I have a habit of being critical of people who bring officiating into question. Here I understand the target, Terry Vaughn has officiated some really poor games this year.
Fabio Tovar is a referee I work with often. He’s the assistant that called the penalty kick. He’s a great guy and a really excellent referee I’m always happy when I get to work with him.
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