The law of fear implemented by Luis Medina Cantalejopresident of Technical Committee of Referees (CTA)has serious consequences, because after eight days of League It has already caused 90 victims. Nearly a hundred players were reprimanded with a yellow or red card for protesting against the referees and they, protected by the new rule of UEFA which states that only the captain can ask the referees for explanations for their decisions on the field of play, they use terror to try to control matches.
The total number of cards posted in the league championship after the first eight dates is 369 and the reason for 90 of them was none other than protest. In other words, today, the referees take one card out of four (24.39%) to footballers who rebel against certain acts, a figure much higher than in Antiquity, when protests were part of sport provided they did not exceed the limits of respect.
Those days are over and now Spanish referees rely on Medina Cantalejo’s law of fear to legally sanction the protagonists of this sport in our country. The rule is as follows: “No gesture must be authorized which reaches the supporter as a criticism of what has been whistled”. This means that any player who even slightly questions a decision that does not necessarily have to be exactly true, runs the risk of being punished.
One of the most striking aspects of this start of the League was precisely the heavy hand of the referees in trying to dominate the matches. This also coincides with a stage in which the level of refereeing is quite low and in which the continuous change of the regulations has caused a general confusion that makes the braids concentrate their way of whistling on the meeting that they usually have with Medina Cantalejo and in which the mistakes made every day are reviewed.
An increase that coincides with the new UEFA standard
The coincidence of the increase in protest cards with the application not only of the law of fear, but also of UEFA, is not a simple coincidence. And in the last European Cup the body chaired by Alexandre Céferine inaugurated the measure according to which only the captain could protest to the referee, which nipped in the bud something as natural as the reaction of the footballer when the referee on duty whistles for something he considers unfair .
There are certain referees who use the advantages offered by this rule more than any other and in the top 3 we already find Muniz Ruiz, Quintero Gonzalez And Santana polite. The first of them showed three yellow cards for protesting against the players of the the real Madrid in their penultimate league match against Deportivo Alavés inside Santiago Bernabéu. Fede Valverde, Vinicius Junior And Luka Modricwho in this case was the captain, added a warning due to a referee who only knew how to tame a collision whose difficulty was not extreme by means of punishments.
Real Madrid, the most affected by Medina Cantalejo
It is precisely the white team that was most punished by this law of fear promoted by Medina Cantalejo. 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.
