The referees of League At the start of the season, they are repeating this situation that was so surprising in the past, exaggerated injury times which further lengthen the matches in an already tight schedule loaded with minutes of play. Only 9 days before the national championship Spain 788 extra minutes have already been added to regulation 90 per match, or in other words, if we average these dates we can see that an “extra match” has been created in each of them.
Everything that is reduced in the League is equivalent per day to what would be one more match than the 10 that are played every weekend in our country. The second was the one in which the largest number was added with a total of 102 minutes of overtime, with the referees generating infinite matches that in another era would have been resolved more quickly and efficiently. This is why we are even talking about mini-extra time, something totally unnatural in football, a sport in which 90 minutes are starting to no longer be sacred and in which we are already talking about playing in real time.
It is true that the rule recommends favoring effective playing time, but the referees do not look at the health of the footballer in this sense at a time when it must be the most important thing given the large accumulation of matches. Remember that there are teams like the real Madrid who can play more than 70 matches this season if he exceeds the targets in the different competitions.
The main architect of this standard, which, as they say, was first implemented last year, is Luis Medina Cantalejopresident of Technical Commission of Referees. He explained at a press conference last summer that the fourth official must display on his poster a reduction in which an extra minute is added for each goal scored in the match, as well as the time corresponding to the time lost for each game reviewed in the match. VARregardless of the duration of the check.
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“We have calculated that one minute is consumed for each celebration. Thus, for each goal, at least one minute of additional time will be added. If there is a check in the VAR, then the same. If it takes two minutes, two extra minutes and if it takes three minutes, three extra,” he said more than a year ago. And that’s because he Call to action hides behind the video refereeing to justify this exaggerated extension of the reductions, something unprecedented for decades and decades of the League, a competition in which the days when the additions were based on substitutions or interruptions caused by something something natural like injuries or expulsions.
It should be noted that the standard that changed everything was inaugurated for the first time in Qatar World Cup 2022 and this not only affects the resumption of the League in Spain, but also in other major European championships such as the Premier League. However, the UEFA decided that the traditional system would continue to be maintained in its competitions.
This is why the spectators of the Champions, Europa League either Conference You will realize that there are still matches in which the result is already important enough to not add more time to the settlement. Usually, the referee on duty can choose not to bill the protagonists of the show for even more minutes, despite a voluntary or involuntary loss of time.
The Law of Fear by Medina Cantalejo
The law of fear put in place by Medina Cantalejo has serious consequences, since it caused 90 victims during the first eight days of the League. Nearly a hundred players who received a yellow or red card for protesting against the referees and they, protected by the new UEFA rule which stipulates that only the captain can ask the referees for explanations on their decisions on the field, use terror to try to control games.
The total number of cards handed out in the league championship after the first eight rounds was 369 and the reason for 90 of them was none other than protest. That is to say, today referees issue one in four cards (24.39%) to footballers who rebel against certain actions, a much higher figure than in ancient times, when protests were part of sport as long as they did not go beyond that. the limits of respect.
