but every superman has his kryptonite.

Saturday, July 08, 2006

Kneeing another player's back. Studs up challenge on a player's head. Literally hugging your opponent to prevent him from running. Okay, credit to the referee for giving a foul for the second offence, but I felt that that deserved a card. But what about the other two? It was really ridiculous refereeing that partly costed us the match. How the hell do you miss another player kneeing another player's back when almost everyone saw it? How in the world did you allow play to continue when the said player was down?

My teammate flared up over the matter and started cursing the referee. Pretty common among footballers and he was promptly shown a red card. Did the referee have to respond back with more vulgarities and also threatening to fight with my teammate? My teammate was already restrained. Do you see referees fighting with players? Do you see referee's cursing players?

I hate it when referees judge players. He said to my teammate, "I've seen you play in other matches so I know how you are." What the hell? I'm sure that was how Rooney got sent off too, because of his bad reputation. My teammate may have a bad reputation for being a hot-head, but a referee should be unbiased in all his decisions and not base them on past incidents.

It really sucks to be running your hearts out and then losing pretty much due to the goalkeeper letting in all the unnecessary goals. Credit to him for trying his best, but everyone still feels sore that our keeper did not handle a clearance from the opponent and let it slip into goal. He also slipped handling another ball which led to us conceding the second goal, but it should be attributed to the bad pitch as I think he twisted his knee very badly from that fall.

Yeah. A teammate sent off and our keeper injured. We practically played with 9 men against 11 for parts of the second half.

If only our keeper was more alert.
If only I struck my bicycle kick harder and the keeper would have probably not been able to tip it over.
If only our teammate did not get sent off.
If only the referee wasn't as retarded.
If only we took our chances better.

Sigh. There can be many more reasons but I'm really tired. If we had won instead of losing 2-1 unnecessarily, we would have probably won the league already. Now we just have to play harder, much harder.

I really need to learn that there's a limit for everything. I'm not going to scrape through having 4 hours of sleep, being ill, barely eating anything and playing so much football. Then again, if I can survive this torture, I can probably overcome most fitness barriers.

[ jason ] | 7:30 pm |