Playing God

Match officials have always tended to "Play GOD" in any sport. Hence it is often good to have as least number of officials as possible officiating on a match. The less the number of people to judge the other people better it is for the sport.

There was this PHL (premier Hockey League) match I was watching and one team Orissa Stellars scored a jaffer of a field goal only to be disallowed by the refree while the replays clearly suggested otherwise. The game was halted for 5-7 minutes and even the Leagues Technical Director suggested to the Refree to go to the Third Umpire but to no avail. Another instance that comes to mind is of STEVE Bucknor and his relectance to give decisions in favour of INDIA, Indians have always been on the wrong side of Mr. Bucknor one would give anything to know the exact reason of his HATRED towards the Players of this country. One could just not forget the HeadMaster treatment he gave to Parthiv Patel on the famous India's tour to South Africa where the match refree thought he was not in the news so he handed over punishment to 7 Indian Players, whereas the Truth was far from what was potrayed by the Gentlemen Governing the game. Refree should always remember that Rules are there for their guidance and they should judge the situation and then use them instead of BLANKLY going by the BOOK. They are there to INTRPRET the RULES and not ENFORCE the rules they should remember.

Another instance of refreeing comes to mind, I dont remember the refree's name but he was famous for giving Penalties in the ManU games and most of the times in favour of the mentioned team.

So why does this happen, why do officials try and show again and again that on field they are GOD to the players. One can understand if a refree makes a mistake, afterall he is also Human and make mistake. But the problem arises when there is a pattern to the mistake, because then it is no longer a mistake it is SELF EGO that is imposed on the players.

The highest governing body of any sport should remember that they need to look at the performances of the GENTLEMEN looking after their sport time and again because its not only a team that is suffering because of this but the sport as a whole, because one RED CARD, one WRONG Decision at a crucial juncture of a game can ruin the whole game/Series for that matter.

I have heard a lot that decisions balance them out in the eventually when the carrer of the player is over. You tell me a decision to give Mr. Symmonds out (Correct Decision) when he was 20 something and team score 165/6 or something close to that, that would have been 7th wicket and who knows under that pressure could Mr. Hogg and Mr. Lee performed, or a Would a wrong decison with Mr Symmonds on 160 odd and team score near 500, you would argue that it balanced out that he got a decision in hisfavour and one against him.
But in fact the DAMAGE that decision has made to the game is irreparable.So one should not go by that logic when it comes to defending the Umpires when they give wrong decisons.

Everyone agrees that there would be mistakes but eveybody cry when there are BLUNDERS.

So Every Refree whenever he walks into to judge anything should remember people will forgive him if he makes mistake because he is not GOD but try and NOT PLAY GOD on the field