On Sunday’s scandal on the Vallecano Rayo stadium, with the concession by referee Busquets Ferrer of a hilarious penalty in favor of Barça, there are two opinion currents.
One in all them considers that it’s a disgrace that the var was spoiled and that, if this had labored, the error of the sphere collegiate would have corrected.
The opposite factors to the truth that it’s a disgrace that the VAR wouldn’t work however that, if it had labored, it might not have been reching earlier than the plunder.
With out being dogmatic, I lean moderately with the second faculty of thought.
We had the very best proof within the Santiago Bernabéu, the place the VAR was the primary exponent of fraud. He annulled Mbappé a purpose for alleged offside. The photographs took a 12 months and a half to achieve the spectator, with sufficient time to be nicely cooked, and provide no proof of the alleged offside.
It was additionally the video arbitration in control of erasing the face of the earth as a lot, this time from Güler.
It’s that it is mindless, soccer or statistical / probabilistic, that Mbappé has marked in Spain so many occasions off the centimeters however has by no means performed it enabled by centimeters. Suppose nicely https://t.co/vv9jjjrTpj
– Paul Tenorio (@paul_Tenorio) September 2, 2025
The Freudian Lapsus of Pulido Santana, calling the monitor to Sánchez Martínez “to be able to cancel the purpose” is already within the Nephonda Historical past of Spanish arbitration, as is his subsequent, so scientific and dependable appreciation: “I imagine that there’s a sure immediacy” between Güler’s involuntary hand and the second of the purpose, when there may be an intervention of the goalkeeper in between medius and subsequently there isn’t any reminiscent of quickly as potential.
However the issue shouldn’t be the var. That’s exactly what they wish to make us imagine. Since the usage of the device was established, its status has been sabotaged from inside.
The issue shouldn’t be the VAR, however those that use it, that are their enemies.
The VAR got here to take away discretion to the work of the members, and that’s what they can’t consent. They need all potential discretion to proceed negreiring, which is what they like. That’s the reason they boycot the existence of the device, which might be helpful in different arms, utilizing it intentionally? because the ortho and embarrassing arbitration choices with a million circulars unintelligible sufficient to be interpreted and utilized as their negreiras minds have good always.
The issue shouldn’t be the VAR, however those that use it, who wish to load it by pressure to make it appear a delay. It’s no accident that they’ve simply appointed as head of it to a man who will make Clos Gómez, Prieto Iglesias. A topic who had remained the sixteenth! Within the Arbitral Second Division rating and, nonetheless, it was promoted to First by Negreira in individual, in a discretionary method and making use of the well-known Corrector Index, AKA corrupting index.
They’ve put probably the most ineffective of the category on function, following the instance of the Ted Lasso tv collection, the place they identify a soccer coach to descend on a soccer workforce.
They wish to cost the VAR, therefore the fee of the administration of its operation to probably the most incapable.
Let’s assessment the remainder of the brand new appointments of the CTA, these new faces and names that change all the pieces in order that all the pieces stays the identical, in a handbook catpardist motion.
On the head of all the pieces is a CEO, Fran Soto, whose indisimulated Barcelona took Vallecas to the Laporta arm the opposite day. Being culé, that is the least of his issues.
That is a person who, requested in his inauguration for the Barçagate and Negreira scandal, referred to as him “punctual episode.” Seventeen years, seventeen (who know) of invoices of the arbitration excessive command to the Més than a membership. Nicely nothing. “Punctual episode,” says the man.
The hundred days of grace within the efficiency of a place are a kindness that not everybody deserves. There are those that, after opening their mouths, don’t deserve even 100 seconds.
Fran Soto, president of the Technical Referees Committee of the Spanish Soccer Federation.
RFEF
The arbitration chief itself, beneath Fran Soto, is Fernández Borbalán, collegiate (some would say culegiado) whose very antimadridist executory in his lively time coincides chronologically, nearly a minute, with the funds of FC Barcelona whom as we speak would name José María Enriquez, to cover.
Anyway, the star appointment within the Federation (and subsequently in arbitration, for the reason that CTA is dependent upon it) is that of Javier Thebas as vice chairman and de facto president (Louzán is a mere puppet).
Thebes, public enemy primary in Actual Madrid, is the brand new factotum, and the implications of such accumulation of energy are already being seen: in three days, the animosity of the braids in the direction of Madrid has solely been akin to its clear Blaugrana devotion, each from the grass and within the cabin.
The scenario is alarming for the white membership. Earlier than, their enemies (federation and league largely) had been gresca. Now they make up a single antivikingo entrance, with Thebes as a agglutinating ingredient.
Nor are we going to get the prepared. Nearly all the pieces is in they songs. They already mentioned it in that traditional: Meet The New Boss / Similar as The Previous Boss (“Meet the brand new boss, is the same as the outdated boss”).
After all, like Pete Townshend and firm, we’ll at all times have the lean comfort of proclaiming that they won’t idiot us once more. We all know what they did final summer time, though this, sadly, serves as little.



























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