The law of fear Luis Medina Cantalejopresident of Technical Commission of Refereesleaves no doubt: “No gesture should be authorized which reaches the supporter as a criticism of what has been whistled.” This is the dogma that the arbiters of the League strictly speaking, because given the discredit generated especially recently by the outbreak of the Negreira case, which coincides with a low level of refereeing, the only way to try to dominate and control the matches is to constantly threaten the penalty players.
This says the standard of Call to action: “This interaction must be done with mutual respect. If this principle is not respected, the referee will make the corresponding disciplinary decisions. The rest of the players cannot approach any member of the refereeing team, thus showing their disagreement with any of the decisions taken. If they fail to comply, they will be reprimanded.”
The referees of Medina Cantalejo, in addition, are protected by the rule according to which the UEFA was invented and first applied in European Cup last summer in Germany. This means that only the team captain can protest to the referee on duty, which is why the increase in bookings in Spain has been huge. It is this data that explains the consequences of the CTA’s law of fear. Medina Cantalejo.
One card in four is intended to protest
Today, in the League, one player in four is reprimanded for protesting. Footballers who rebel against certain actions are heavily punished at the beginning of the season, increasing the old figure due to a completely logical circumstance in football and in life, such as not agreeing with the decision of a judge, in this case the arbitrator. .
90 people reprimanded due to protests between players and coaches
Previously, protests were part of this sport as long as the limits of respect were not exceeded. But at the current stage of arbitration in Spain The braids do not leave a head puppet and both the technicians and the footballers risk being warned for any risk of tone that does not like the field referee. 90 victims of demonstrations in just eight dates.
Medina Cantalejo referees issued 369 cards in eight days
While barely eight days of the national championship have been played, the League referees have already distributed a total of 369 cards among the 20 teams. If we focus on the area of protests, the one that accumulates the most for this reason is the the real Madridwhereas if we generalize it without specifying the reason for the warning, it is the Villarrealwhich is at the top of this ranking between yellow and red. So, if out of these 369 cards, 90 are intended for demonstrations, we are talking about almost 25% (24.39%) for this reason.
46 cards per day and almost five per League match
The daily average taken from the full figure is 46. Nearly half a hundred players are reprimanded, often in ridiculous ways. There are several games in which, without extreme harshness in the game, the level of the referee in question makes him put his mouth to the whistle more frequently than usual to try to take control of the situation and have the players tied with yellow. .
A newly promoted referee receives the most cards for protesting
Another consequence that attracts a lot of attention is that a recently promoted member of the First division like the native of Huelva Alberto Quintero Gonzalez be next to Santana polite And Muniz Ruizthe referee who shows the most cards for protests with eight. In just five matches, he received a total of 23 yellow cards, or 4.6 per match, which makes him a model of adaptation to this law of fear.
Real Madrid, in the lead, being the cleanest team
It was precisely the white team that was penalized the most by this rule. Indeed, more than half (52.94%) of the cards received by Real Madrid during these eight days of the League are protests and not faults worthy of being reported – nine for complaints and eight for tackles. Furthermore, data attracts attention when those of Carlo AncelottiThis year again, they are once again the team with the fewest mistakes in the championship.
