Friday 8 May 2009

its a f***king disgrace !!


Ugly scenes at Stamford Bridge erupted after the final whistle. Didier Drogba (who else will you expect anyway...) shouted profanity down the camera, allegedly accusing the referee who in all fairness did had a poor game, to a live audience consisting of millions of viewers worldwide.

And yes, while I appreciate the passion and fighting spirit of Chelsea, I can't help but notice that this is the 2nd time the issue of referee abuse has happened with the Blues. The eventualities of the last one with a pretty decent referee Anders Frisk; including persistent death threats to him and his family from "overtly" passionate fans resulted in his decision to retire from refereeing. Looks like the Norwegian referee, Tom Ovrebo who officiated the last semi-final is not going to have it easy too, his home address is already going public in Facebook pages that are calling out for his blood.

I can understand that things can get really frustrating when referee decisions don't go your way, but what the Blues exhibit time after time; verbal abuse, physical threats and gangsterism by players and fans is really unbecoming and unfitting for a club who claims to be an elite representative of world football. Whatever happened to sportsmanship and basic courtesy? Surely there are better avenues to voice out unhappiness and dissastisfaction. The club and manager can mask all the ugliness displayed by Drogba behind a veil of passion and love for the club, but such ungentlemanly behavior did the club reputation no good among its peers.

Lets hope some sense prevail in all of these, sometimes the line between soccer and common sense gets blurred when passion overrules the mind. We just saw the death of an Arsenal soccer fan because of the club's loss in the semi finals. Let's hope no referee or any human being's life is under threat just because the game of soccer has superceded even the value of life itself.

And really... to Didier Drogba, your foolish behavior just made you the disgrace in all of this...

1 comment:

  1. 上梁不正,下梁歪。I guess this could all stem from the top where their owner is a Russian Gangster. Culture at the club could be that toughness and gangsterism is the way to go. I have never been fond of Chelsea's "style" ever since Abramovich. I guess this shows the importance of management in instilling culture and beliefs in an organisation. Hopefully, nothing happens to this referee. Just his luck to have been caught in such a situation. All the best to him.

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