People are not sages. This ancient Chinese saying tells the truth that “there is no perfect person in the world. But if it is applied to a certain group, it is very against the same. They are one of the focuses of the Super League this season-the referee. If you pay close attention to Chinese football for a long time, you will find that in this year’s Chinese three-level professional league, almost every round has a certain game because of various penalties, which has caused heated discussions on social media. If you don’t pay attention to Chinese football, you can also occasionally brush words such as Ma Ning on the hot list. In addition to the World Cup, once the words related to the referee appear in the hot list. There is no doubt that public opinion must be aggressive criticism. “This year is the most controversial, and I don’t know how to evaluate it.” A player said. Although his team received not a lot of controversial penalties in this year’s league, he also felt that after the restoration of the main game, the overall penalty of the referee was not completely convincing. According to the news from the football newspaper, in the first 22 rounds of the league, 47 referees have been punished in the Chinese professional football league. The lightest stop whistle is 2 games and the heaviest is 6 games. Compared with the data published in previous years, this list of tickets can be called the most in history. The Chinese referee in 2023 is really not good. I. Mistakes and errors “Reduce general misjudgments and eliminate major misjudgments.” This is the law enforcement standard recognized by the referee circle. In other words, it is totally impossible for insiders to completely eliminate major mistakes. The English Professional Referee Organization has conducted a survey. In the 90-minute match, 245 decisions need to be made in the court, with an average of 22 seconds. It is too demanding to require a person to make more than 200 multiple choice questions with a 100% correct rate in just one and a half hours. Of course, the law enforcement error rate of the referee in each game must not be too high. Generally, there are too many misjudgments, and the possibility of major misjudgments is higher. In the 16th round of the Chinese Super League, the match between Nantong Zhiyun and Dalian people, Gui Hong was sentenced to offside after scoring. Later, I checked through the video: When my teammates passed the ball, Gui Hong had not finished half of the game, and there was no saying of offside. Afterwards, the Football Association said that the penalty was misjudged, but the score of 1 to 1 could not be changed. Nantong Zhiyun missed 2 points on the classified road and gave 1 point to Dalian people. In the 20th round of the Chinese Super League, Qingdao manatee played against Chengdu Rongcheng. In the 95th minute, international Exxon scored a flat goal, but because teammate Palacios was suspected to be blown off handball, Chengdu lost 2-3. Soon, the Football Association apologized to the club, saying that Exxon’s goal was a misjudgment. Manatees scored 2 points more and Rongcheng scored 1 point less, which directly affected the relegation situation and the Asian crown seat. In addition, like the competition between the harbor and the Jinmen Tiger, Zhang Lin’s flying shovel will move tomorrow. According to the rules of the referee, straight red is a more accurate penalty. In low-level middle A and Middle B, there are many misjudgments this year. On May 14, in the fifth round of the first place, a penalty from the ruling on duty directly changed the ending of the competition. In the 86th minute, when Dongguan Foreign aid onueb was about to break into the forbidden zone to form a single knife, he was put down by the Shijiazhuang kung fu players behind him. The master who witnessed everything behind him was indifferent. 5 minutes later, Shijiazhuang staged a final killing, and the victory balance of the competition was completely reversed. On June 28, a strange and outrageous scene appeared in Zhongjia. In the 30th minute, Suzhou Dongwu who fought at home scored a goal. The assistant referee raised the flag in advance to indicate offside. The referee also approved the penalty and blew off Dong Honglin’s supplementary shooting. At the moment when his teammates shot, Dong Honglin had at least two Jinan Xingzhou defenders in front of him, so how could the ball be offside? Even if the Dongwu players come forward to protest, they cannot change the ending of the team’s 0-1 defeat. There are countless misjudgments like this this year, and the above-mentioned ones are typical of them. II. Money and people Careful fans may find that whether it is the competition between Nantong Zhiyun or Chengdu Rongcheng, the two football associations actively admit their mistakes, and the main reason is video playback. The former lacks enough seats, while the latter is blurred, which makes Ma Ning sitting in the playback room scratch his head and do not know what to do. In this case, the referee can only believe the first judgment of the assistant referee. In contrast, the Premier League of the world’s first league is undoubtedly the benchmark in this respect. In the current Premier League competition, the average number of cameras is at least 33. Today, there are about 12 to 16 seats in the Chinese Super League, even less than half of the Premier League. After the Kingyuan football bubble was punctured, the copyright was greatly reduced, and the specifications of the broadcast will naturally be accordingly. In the current Chinese football, VAR can certainly reduce misjudgment, but due to some hardware conditions, the corner of the stadium cannot be completely covered, which will also lead to frequent misjudgment. “Attention has become higher.” Industry insiders said that after the restoration of the main away game, the number of people entering the stadium to watch the game is far more than the number of people in the past three or four years. The attention of fans to the game and the attention to the game will undoubtedly multiply any details in the game, the referee’s decision is undoubtedly one of the most concerned points. In the past, the penalty that won’t quarrel in the league will become the focus of all people. Every penalty, every point, every victory, for different teams, it affects the fate of a year or even the next few years, which is related to life and death. To this end, many clubs and players will argue, from Nantong Zhiyun to Chengdu Rongcheng, from Dongguan Yicheng to Wuxi wuhook. In the final analysis, the referee problem has been complained so much this year. In essence, there are not enough excellent referees in Chinese football. Benchmarking Premier League. In the first League of the new season, there are 79 full-time referees (I .e. professional referees) in the elite group and 31 international referees. However, in Chinese football, the number of full-time referees is currently 0, and there are 24 international referees. Among them, the Professional Referee tried out by the Football Association in 2019 came to an abrupt end after three years of implementation. “The main reason is that the subsequent treatment guarantee is not keeping up with it.” Insiders said that Fu Ming, Zhang Lei and Ma Ning also became part-time referees again. If you look at the number of international judges alone, the league matches between China and Britain seem to be not much different, so insiders said: “Although there is still an all-round gap between Chinese referees and the world, compared with the teams, at least Chinese referees have been able to go to the stage of the World Cup, which may be the smallest gap between Chinese football and world football at present.” III. Awards and penalties “If there are some mistakes that affect the direction and even the results of the competition, we will not be able to get out in a day or two. We may bear this burden for a long time and make ourselves feel guilty and blame ourselves.” Ma Ning said. In this regard, Zhang Lei also had the same feeling. “Uncomfortable, it will be very uncomfortable.” A few years ago, I once witnessed such a scene in the Youth League. A young referee, because of the penalty of a ball right, the ball originally kicked out by the attacking party was awarded to the attacking party for the wrong direction, which instantly caused the player’s controversy, the parents of the defenders on the stands were furious and came off one after another. They once rushed to the bench to abuse the referee. The final whistle rang, and the referee supervised to resume the game for him, correcting the gains and losses. “Look, a mistake is so terrible. The referee is not so easy to do. You have to pass the psychological level first.” Although his predecessors have been guiding this young man and encouraging him to look through the video summary and try to do better next time. But from the end to the return to the hotel, he looked pale all the way, lowered his head and kept silent. Down to youth league, up to Super League. No matter who it is, once the referee makes a misjudgment and then affects the game, it will be punished by the competent department after the game. A senior old referee told us: “Take the Chinese Super League as an example, there will be referee supervision to rate the referee team in every game. The full score is 10 points. Ma Ning, Zhang Lei and Fu Ming are scored according to the difficulty of the game and the accuracy of the penalty.” A game is related to relegation or championship competition, which will be defined as a game with high difficulty in law enforcement. If the referee team can ensure the smooth completion of the match without major misjudgment and general misjudgment, there is no doubt that the match will be a very high score, basically around 8.5 points, or even a little higher, but it is difficult to reach 9 points. If a game is difficult to enforce the law, even if the game is successfully completed, the score will definitely be lower than that of the game with higher difficulty. On the contrary, if there is a major misjudgment affecting the process and results of the competition, the score will be below 8 points. 1 Major misjudgment with a score between 7.5 and 7.9; 2 major misjudgment with a score below 7.4. The slight difference of a few minutes may affect the promotion and demotion of a referee. After the referee supervision scores for the referee group, if there is a major misjudgment and the score is very low, the Football Association commission will issue a notice to stop the whistle. These things will not be disclosed to the public, but more to protect the referee. Because the judges in black have no window to speak out, only the competent authorities can protect them. At the end of a season, the top three referees in the comprehensive appraisal will be promoted, similar to the team, from the middle a to the Super League. If the rating is the last three, the corresponding referee will be demoted. This is why some judges can become international judges every year. Some of them come this year and leave in two years. There were exceptions to this reward and punishment mechanism. In the Kingyuan league matches in earlier years, a referee was sentenced to death by a leader after the game because of a misjudgment in the game (which did not affect the direction of the game), directly drop to the next level of the league. According to regulations, this kind of “decentralization” must at least wait until the comprehensive score at the end of the year. Nowadays, this situation has been much less. To be honest, everyone hates misjudgment and injustice, which not only imparts our desire for fairness and justice in football, a competitive sport, but also reflects the ideal world in the individual’s heart, sometimes it is a real projection in reality. Whether it is the fans who focus on Chinese football or international football, they all hope that a game can be truly dominated by players and coaches, rather than be seized by referees. When chatting with people in the referee circle, the referee’s greatest wish for law enforcement competition is the same: “When the final whistle rings, no one can remember them. This is our ultimate ideal.”
