5/14/23

Football is dying. Strict rules or fine tuning of refereeing

 Football has recently been causing a lot of controversy around refereeing. In almost all countries where it is played. Fans, coaches, and players no longer understand what the consequences of their actions are when there is a violation and when it is not. Moments that are absolutely identical from a non-judicial point of view are evaluated differently. This leads to a completely natural result - interest in football as such is reduced, since this interest is not based on thick books of instructions for use, but on the intuitive feeling of people who have played football themselves. Fans understand the essence of football much more than sports officials. Fans pay money for the opportunity to imagine themselves in the place of a player, to merge with football. Officials come up with rules to achieve "fairness", but not the soul of football. Matches are sometimes more like a trial than a spectacle. Football is dying because one can't drag new fans into such a boring showdown. I am a fun since 1963 or 60 years.

An example from economics. Central banks have long discussed the issue of base rate management. There are two approaches: raising and lowering the rate in such a way as to reach a predetermined level of inflation, which is also called inflation targeting. Target inflation is constant. In another approach, the target inflation varies with the inflation rate itself, so that the dynamics of the base rate can change over a wider range. In football refereeing, there has been a transition from a strict refereeing rule (targeting), when small details are not taken into account, to fine-tuning the rules (referee instructions), which can also change. Groups are formed to change the old rules, which seem wrong to some officials like Čeferin. This path is a dead end and will lead to the death of football as a national game. The European Union is on the road with its ethrnal "rules".

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