Laid out

When judges to please the owners of the VIP set up the opponent’s team, the torside begins to hurt against their

What happened to judging in the 24th round of the Russian professional football league is not a circus. There is no need to offend the great art, which at the dawn required exceptional professionalism. You won’t play a circus in the circus and you won’t hide behind the back of the sprokhstalmeister.

This is another. The third day, and under any official conclusions, if any, the sediment will remain for a long time on the Internet. If not so long ago the concept of “insulting feelings” to something and applicable in the Criminal Code is applicable, it was that it was happening on several football arenas at once. Including the very one that was solemnly opened in St. Petersburg and which is not worthy of the same name for known reasons.

Football, for which the magnificent “monument of corruption” was erected, has already added five kopecks to the bad story. It is true that the bulk of the fans and even fans of Zenit frankly wished the opponent’s success for the past half an hour.

The local audience (!) Was offended, not to mention neutral. This makes the honor of St. Petersburg torside. But it does not honor VIP-pages that provide and in every possible way support the current stuffy atmosphere of Russian football.

The new arena before the eyes of the whole country was opened by an action that will be recognized as one of the most shameful in the season, and maybe in general in the history of domestic football. The head coach of the Urals, Alexander Tarkhanov, was extremely rarely given to emotions, barely restrained, expressing himself correctly: “I understand that a holiday, that a new stadium, but it’s impossible ... We just fell under the tank.”

The main judge Alexei Yeskov acted as the tank. He more than “rehabilitated” the “Moscow Arbitration”, which the head coach of Zenit Mirce Lucescu does not get tired of complaining for the second month - instead of taking his team out of dull state. At the most intense moment of the match, Eskov deleted two Ural players - Eric Bikfalvi for a hard but clean tackle received a second yellow card, Roman Pavlyuchenko - direct red for a verdict reaction. Under the curtain on a skirmish in the penalty for guests, Uralets Roman Emelyanov and Zenitovets Artem Dziuba were awarded yellow cards, but the defender of the Urals was the second. Three deletions in one team became a Russian record.

The guests attacked and entered, and missed the second goal when there were three Zenit football players against the guests goalkeeper. After such a goal, it was necessary to close his eyes with shame, but the Gazprom superiors habitually pretended that nothing extraordinary happened. Glee was not canceled.

Each of the removal can be qualified to justify if they are considered in isolation from the fabric of the entire game, in which the judge adhered to one line - was strict and zones against guests and is very condescending to the hosts. The gap turned out to be so monstrous that it could not be noticed, but this is not in the style of the head of the judge department of Andrei Budogos. True, Eskov will not judge the top-match of the next round of CSKA-“Lokomotiv”, but not because he failed the previous meeting, but because he was given a rest.

So, the rest of the main "heroes" of the tour are right. Vladislav Bezoborodov was afraid to remove the untouchable Igor Akinfeev, when the goalkeeper of CSKA and the Russian national team in the first minutes of the match in Ufa abeded rudely overwhelmed Kekhinde Fatay, who came out with him alone. Mikhail Vilkov did not notice the foul of Alexander Bukharov on the serdar of Taski when the striker Rostov scored the first goal of Spartak. The top of unprofessionalism was demonstrated by Sergey Ivanov (the same, due to the effective mistake of which in October, a grandiose scandal erupted after the Zenit-Spartak match), who directly deprived the Moscow “Lokomotiv” of Honored Home Victory in a match with Amkar.

I will leave aside the analysis of the conspiracy versions - there are a lot of them, and almost everyone has reason. The presence of a corruption component is also in the field of assumptions. But the fear of losing a place in the clip really finishes almost all the judges and, coupled with the glaring lack of professionalism, gives such wild fruits as in the record 24th round.

Who is more afraid to offend, also understand. A shout from the leadership of Gazprom or from such heavyweight as CSKA President Evgeny Giner, “weighs” is much more than a miserable protest of an outsider or even a middle peasant. There is no need to turn to statistics to find out the well -known one: it is easier to spent stronger than to show principles. Who is in authority is right.

Yes, the case of Lokomotiv is knocked out of the trend, but the club is now not in Favor, and Spartak is more to blame for the defeat that he suffered in Rostov. Yes, Zenit also sometimes suffered from judicial decisions, as well as CSKA - but their cases are extremely rare beyond the scope of the usual errors. But when they try to help with the same Zenit, I will keep it here. As last Saturday and it was. And only the desire to preserve the intrigue in the championship race not to explain that the methods are too incorrect and shameless. I am afraid that in the atmosphere of initial inequality and video recovers, the introduction of which is a long discussion, will not help.

After an ugly case with the refereeing of one of the matches of the recently passed final series of the Gagarin hockey cup, a 10-year-old girl puzzled the editorial office with the question of whether to believe what is happening in the game.

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