A bad day to be a referee!

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A bad day to be a referee!

#1 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:59 pm

Cuban athlete Angel Matos deliberately kicked a referee in the face after he was disqualified in a bronze-medal match.


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#2 Post by silvercamaro » Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:07 pm

Um, I think Angel has pretty well blown his chances for winning the De Coubertain Award for sportsmanship.
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#3 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:08 pm

Both he and his coach have been banned for life from the sport.

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#4 Post by ulysses5019 » Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:11 pm

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Cuban athlete Angel Matos deliberately kicked a referee in the face after he was disqualified in a bronze-medal match.


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Probably his best hit of the day.
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#5 Post by NFL_Referee » Sat Aug 23, 2008 10:45 pm

I am lucky this didn't happen to me on February 5, 2006.

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#6 Post by Evil Squirrel » Sun Aug 24, 2008 6:57 am

NFL_Referee wrote:I am lucky this didn't happen to me on February 5, 2006.
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#7 Post by macrae1234 » Sun Aug 24, 2008 11:33 am

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

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Re: A bad day to be a referee!

#8 Post by ulysses5019 » Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:13 pm

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Cuban athlete Angel Matos deliberately kicked a referee in the face after he was disqualified in a bronze-medal match.


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Angel sure wasn't any angel.
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#9 Post by Thousandaire » Sun Aug 24, 2008 3:31 pm

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Both he and his coach have been banned for life from the sport.
The NBA and MLB could learn a lesson from this.

I don't see why the coach is being punished, though.

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#10 Post by Bob78164 » Sun Aug 24, 2008 6:26 pm

Thousandaire wrote:
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Both he and his coach have been banned for life from the sport.
The NBA and MLB could learn a lesson from this.

I don't see why the coach is being punished, though.
For condoning the act after the fact. --Bob
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#11 Post by macrae1234 » Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:04 pm

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

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#12 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:24 pm

macrae1234 wrote:Castro defends cuban's actions


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 626D08.DTL
So if the government of a country condones the act after the fact, should the country be banned?
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feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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