(Seeing as mlf seemingly can't be arsed)
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Speaking as someone was unable to play this match I notice a few things that are a bit suspect towards the end of the game.
62:00 and onwards
mlf kicks the ball onto Skjöld who then kicks the ball out hismelf into touch over the TH byline.
both mlf and Skjöld crwod round the ball, both seemingly adamant the decision should go their way. No big deal there, it's not strictly speaking the players' duty to try to judge for themselves every single decision.
However it clearly should be the referee's.
About 7 or 8 seconds pass before Shaps finally gives the call the incorrect way. I say incorrect as one only has to watch the haxballtube replay (although the may only have the patience to go through it once, waiting for hbt to process over 200 thousand frames is tedious as fuck), and watch both the direction of the velocity of the ball and the timing of the kicks to judge the way the call should have been given.
Now sometimes I can forgive a referee for making an incorrect call if it was difficult to judge who had last contact on the ball, and they were genuinely keeping their eye on the events, yet what I saw suggested that the ref wasn't on this occasion. Looking at the events myself it certainly didn't take me 8 seconds to make a call, and neither should it any other human being. I would suggest that Shaps clearly could have had his eye on the ball, and merely after seeing both players hankering for their decision after the event guessed which way it should have gone. If he was watching he'd have not wasted so much time.
Taking the 'importance' of the match into account, I don't think we should be allowing referees be so careless in making these calls.
But I'm not finished yet, oooh no boys and girls, my
sour grapes quest for justice hasn't quite spared you from the totality of my autism just yet.
Going onward to about 62:30 now, and the corner is taken, with the clearance kicked by Breeezy ricocheting off Skjöld and out into touch in the TH half, yet again Shaps makes the call in favour of Pelicans.
Has he forgotten temporarily which team Skjöld had been playing for? At least I can't fault him for dithering so much, the call came out almost straight away... yet that still does not excuse him from being wrong. What doesn't surprise me is the nature of the incorrect call.
I have seen it time and time again from numerous referees of different nationalities against a whole range of opponents, both for and against my beloved team, where the ball is usally travelling at speed when one player kicks the ball into a member of the opposing team, with a change of direction occurring less than ten or so frames apart. I see so many refs give the call, incorrectly, agains the team of the player who makes the initial kick in this case, and not paying attention to the
direction the ball is travelling in. It's horiffic quite frankly, and only leads to vexed teenagers wasting half an hour of their time to wax lyrical on the forums about bad referreeing, which I know I could well do without!
I suppose I shoudl take the time here to make Dev's referre training a bit more stringent when it coes to these scenarios, because it is endemic across the game and I think can easily be corrected.
So, to recap, we've covered TWO consecutive incorrect decisions so far, but nevertheless, we proceed.
The ball falls to joehan at about 62:39 on your tape, and then rather jarringly and unnaturally lurches away from the ball despite no immediate pressure being put upon him. Even from a layman's perspective it's quite clear to tell that my dear friend joehan suffered a spike in his ping, causing him to drag in such an odd way. Beninho then followed up by putting the pressure on mlfaijati as hi raced back into position, whom himeslf was unable to prevent the old antihero Skjöld for firing in the rebound. I should say here that this is not meant to at all be a diatribe against any fo the Pelicans players, I can forgive Ben and Skj for acting in the heat of the moment and taking the the goal.
However this league has set a very clear precedent when it comes to retroactive action in matches when goals have been scored only by the clear intervention of a sudden increase in ping in one or more players. It would be unconscionably not to follow this precedent and chalk this goal off surely, despite there not being a visible increase in the 40-frame average for joehans ping, it is clear and due to the nature of his movements that he had suppered a short spike in ping causing him to lag, which would not be appreciably accounted for in hsi first ping number.
For that reason and for everything that has proceeded this paragraph, I would like to make an
official protest as regard the result of this match, and request that my team be allowed to replay this game at a future date. I trust my dear admins take this matter seriously, and implore upon their good senses of fairness to consider my case throughly.
From Praha with love, ~Rén
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) actions during and after the game. However I think that it is understandable and in all honesty I could have done much worse, I didn't bring this argument much onto the forum which I easily could have done and caused disruption onto here. I think I only reacted badly just because my team and I has had stupid decisions and calls given against them by Shaps in the past (if someone brings up that I was the one to get him to ref then they should shut the fuck up, Skjold or Beninho or w/e made no attempt seemingly to get a ref for themselves and for a fucking cup final Shaps was the only one I messaged that was free) and that contributed to our bad response to him, and indeed Joe saying that he was being biased before, well before he fucked us over in all honesty. And Pelicans as well tbh, despite how you weren't at fault for the decisions and you just defended your side and can't really be blamed for that.