The catechism prevailing in Spanish football, which has a clear example in the provincial Real Madrid or Barcelona fan, with no vernacular relationship with said teams, is one of the main reasons why the national news media prefer to open their sections with any trifle from them instead of incidents of equal or greater substance from the rest of the clubs. Mbappé’s cold or Lamine Yamal’s contracture will always be more important to them than a fracture of the tibia and fibula of any extramural player. We have proven this last day with two controversial referee decisions. And the truth is that Lewandowski’s nail in Anoeta has not revealed the body of the Celtic Starfelt in Villamarín. And what happened in Betis-Celta posed a question of greater interest to football in general than what was generated by the dubious choice of a frame in the images of the disallowed goal against the Blaugrana. Celta’s first goal raised two capital questions : the incidence of positional offside and the competence to determine it. That the position of the Swedish Celta footballer prevented Rui Silva from observing the ball leaving the foot of the shooter is indisputable, as well as understandable that its incidence was reviewed by the VAR. But at this point, the aberrant thing is that a play requiring interpretation was resolved by the assistant referee and not by him. The monitor should have been called and let him decide. Out of common sense, because they pay you for it, out of hierarchy, out of decency. The same would have endorsed his assistant’s opinion, true, but it would have been the call to judge him, not a scab. The extra half centimeter of Lewandowski’s boot in the disallowed goal against Barça will surely be repeated, because it depends on the finesse that is taken in the choice of the exact moment of who serves the ball, but the Celtic goal should establish jurisprudence: it is the judge who sentences, never the judicial secretary.
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