Fame with a ball

On March 3, the German newspaper "Picturesport" published such a group of cartoons: On the bed late at night, the head coach of the Turin team, Ventura, snuggled up to the referee, Nicola Barnett. In his arms, he said aggrievedly: "Every time I play against Juventus, I always get abused by their No. 16, that Lin is really annoying!" Barnett put his arm around the shoulder of the Turin referee, and said affectionately: "It's okay, I'm here, watch me help you punish him in the game!"

Accompanying the cartoon is a photo of Lin Zhigao angrily leaving the scene after receiving a red card.

"Milan Sports Edition" PS a photo of Nicola Barnett, and put his modified suit and leather shoes on the Oscar podium, holding a "Best Actor" statuette in his hand, the auditorium below The faces of the two teams of Juventus and Turin were Ped into players, and they were all applauding on the stage-the photo implied that Barnett finally became the protagonist of the game as a referee.

As the sports newspaper with the largest circulation in Turin and is also quite influential in the Apennine Peninsula, it is impossible for "Turin Sports News" to learn from "Picture Sports" and satirize the Turin team and the referee all over again, because Among the staff of the newspaper office, there are also many fans of the Turin team. When Juventus or Torino are playing against teams outside, the newspaper office can of course shoot at each other, but when the two teams in the city quarrel After the dispute of saliva, "Torino Sport" should keep its attitude objective and fair.

So their focus was on the game itself and the controversial referee Nicola Barnett.

Juventus eventually lost the game, but after Caceres and Lin Zhigao were sent off one after another, they did not lose. They showed an extremely tenacious sense of winning in the last 30 minutes of the game , Iaquinta and Verratti were fighting for the top and fighting for the top - their aura once shocked the Turin players, and they subconsciously restrained their movements, for fear of angering the Juventus players. The game turned into a gang fight.

According to the official statistics after the game, Juventus had a ball possession rate of 67% during that time period, but after all, they failed to equalize the score because of the loss of a good frontcourt attacker, and lost the game 1:2 .

As a result, Juventus lost its unbeaten record of 28 league rounds, but what is worse is not these vain titles. Those two red cards on him.

The Juventus club has issued a statement on its official website, preparing to appeal the red cards of Cáceres and Lin Zhigao.

At the same time, Nicola Barnett, the famous whistleblower in Serie A, also claimed that Lin Zhigao insulted his personality after the game when he was interviewed by reporters. He has recorded all this in his referee report and is ready to Hand it over to the Serie A referee committee, and then through the Serie A referee committee, request the Italian Football Association to impose an additional penalty on Lin Zhigao, changing from a one-match ban to a three-match ban.

But when the reporter asked Barnett whether he threatened Lin Zhigao with a red card during the intermission, Barnett avoided talking about it: "When Lin Zhigao was interviewed by reporters in the mixed zone after the game, he told me Abuse was committed, there is no doubt about it. For this alone, I can ask the referee committee to extend his suspension."

The reporter pretended not to understand, and asked him, "How did Lin insult you?"

Barnett blushed, unable to utter a word for a long time.

"Is it because Lin's words 'the one on the court is a puddle of shit' and 'a despicable and shameless villain' make you think he is scolding you?" Language trap, the more Barnett didn't want to say these words, the more the reporter wanted to tease him.

Barnett said to the reporter angrily: "Don't mention those words in front of me!" This is almost self-confessed.

After successfully driving Barnett to death, the reporter found Lin Zhigao contentedly and asked him to express his opinion on Barnett's interview words.But at this moment, Lin Zhigao is in a desperate situation, and he is not in the mood to accept any reporter's interview, even if it is on his side——

Juventus' request for an appeal for him and Caceres was accepted by the Italian referee committee, but the result of the appeal may not be entirely optimistic.The red card of Cáceres is okay, because there is a video of the game that shows that the Turin striker was indeed offside when he was pulled by him. Considering that the Turin team later relied on the referee's misjudgment The ball equalized the score and dealt a big blow to Juventus, so the red card on Caceres' body is revoked, and the probability is relatively high.

But the red card on Lin Zhigao's body is not necessarily the case.

First of all, Lin Zhigao claimed that the referee verbally threatened him during the intermission, so he blew the "home whistle" and "emotional whistle" during the game. This was also testified by his teammate Caceres (later A Turin player said in an interview that he accidentally overheard the conversation between the referee and Lin Zhigao during the intermission, which proved that Lin Zhigao was not lying), which made Lin Zhigao win the trust of all The media and reporters, but the referee committee does not like this kind of rhetoric without physical evidence. When they retrial the penalty in the game, they generally pay more attention to those appeals with video evidence.Although Lin Zhigao had witnesses, it was not enough for the referee committee to "reduce" his sentence.

Secondly, is the action of Lin Zhigao hitting Damian in the game, is it a foul?Judging from the game video, Lin Zhigao did not make any foul actions, but don't forget that in the penalty of the red card, there are several actions that can be expelled by the referee without fouling. These actions are respectively : Violent behavior, endangering the safety of opposing players, spitting at opposing players or other persons, using offensive, insulting or swearing language.

In the final referee report submitted by Nicola Barnett, it was stated that his reason for giving Lin Zhigao a red card was: "The player maliciously bumped his opponent into the air by three meters, endangering the opponent's personal safety"-although this rhetoric makes Lin Zhigao feel uncomfortable. People find it absurd and funny, but you can only say that Barnett's sentence was not fair, and he deliberately made excuses to find trouble. It cannot be said that Barnett's behavior was [-]% wrong, because Damian was indeed hit by Lin Zhigao. He fell more than three meters, but he was still lying on the ground and refused to get up, yelling so that the whole world could see his "pain".

Finally, and most importantly, when Lin Zhigao was interviewed by reporters in the mixed zone, he scolded the referee with not so beautiful words.

This greatly reduced Lin Zhigao's "impression points" in the hearts of the members of the referee committee, and weakened Lin Zhigao's image of a victim of "wronged and persecuted". The members of the team will probably cancel his red card because they feel sorry for him, but...

Standing aggressively in the mixed zone, yelling at the referee on duty?The referee committee of Serie A also wants to maintain its superior majesty. Their own members can punish themselves, but the referee committee cannot tolerate wanton insults to the referee, because this is also an indirect challenge to their authority.

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Before the arrival of the 30th round of the league, the Serie A Referee Committee announced the results of the Juventus appeal.

The red card on Cáceres was revoked and changed to a yellow card. He will not be suspended for this reason, because even if the yellow cards received by Cáceres in the previous rounds of the league are counted, there are only 2 cards in total. .

Lin Zhigao's red card penalty remains the original sentence, and because Lin Zhigao insulted the referee to the public media after the game, which caused extremely bad influence, the Serie A Referee Committee decided to extend his suspension to three games and fined him 1 million euros.Of course, the league is banned, and the Coppa Italia and Champions League matches will not be delayed.

Juventus executives originally wanted to operate on this matter to avoid Lin Zhigao's suspension penalty, but recently there have been a lot of gambling cases in Italian football, which involved several Juventus executives. At the moment, he is being closely watched by the Italian police, so he cannot use his network energy to excuse Lin Zhigao for the time being.

But the status and prestige of these Juventus shareholders are still there. Under their pressure from a distance, although Lin Zhigao was still suspended, the referee Nicola Barnett, who enforced the Turin VS Juventus match, was also punished. As a punishment by the referee committee, he was suspended for one year, and after the expiration, he will be transferred to Serie B for law enforcement.

However, stopping the whistle does not mean that Barnett’s punishment is over. The sad and poor former Italian whistle has bad luck. He stays at home and surfs the Internet every day and is scolded by Chinese fans in turns @, and finally has to close his Twitter and Twitter. Facebook, go out to go to a supermarket, and you can meet Zebra fans spitting at yourself.A one-year stoppage meant that Barnett had no income for a year. He returned to the construction company he had worked for, and when he learned that he was transferred to a small department with no oil and water, he resigned in a rage. I couldn't find a better job than before, so I had no choice but to grow flowers and weeds, and then live on my wife.

As soon as the news of Lin Zhigao's three-match suspension was reported, it immediately aroused great controversy among European football and Chinese fans.

There are not a few celebrities who have been punished by the Football Association for insulting the referee because they are dissatisfied with the judgment of the referee. Head coaches Wenger, Ferguson, Mourinho, Mancini, among the stars are Ronaldo and Pires , Cassano, and Drogba have also been recruited one after another, from being fined to being suspended, and the unlucky ones were suspended and fined again.

However, most of the above mentioned are bad-tempered masters. They were punished because of friction with the referee, which did not surprise the fans, but Lin Zhigao is recognized as a kind-tempered man!The image of Mr. Good Man was instantly reversed into a "bad boy" who scolded the referee at the stadium. There will be no second incident in football that can shock fans like this in a short period of time.

Most people have sympathy for Lin Zhigao, but there are also a small number of diehard Zebra fans who are dissatisfied with Lin Zhigao because of the suspension-because everyone knows that without Lin Zhigao, Juventus In the next few rounds of the league, he will become a toothless tiger, and his position in the standings is very likely to be overtaken by the No.2 AC Milan. Who made the Bianconeri's situation like this Disadvantage?Although the real reason is the eccentricity of the referee, this does not prevent some people from transferring their hatred to Lin Zhigao.

Especially those radical fans, what they love is only the team, not any player in the team. Once a player puts the team in a weak position, even if it is the zebra prince, they will still criticize it—— Who made Lin Zhigao get an extended suspension for scolding the referee?After these radical fans resented Nicola Barnett, they blamed Lin Zhigao for his misbehavior. Therefore, after Lin Zhigao was suspected of being a "parallel importer" the summer he just transferred, he was once again criticized by a few Juventus fans. Words talk.

Several Italian tabloids seemed to feel that the Serie A football scene was not lively enough at the moment, and started to hype the news that "Lin Zhigao's suspension caused widespread dissatisfaction among Juventus fans". At this time, Lin Zhigao's teammates and Friends came forward: Caceres: "Lin was suspended because of me, if he didn't say it to comfort me, he wouldn't have said those words and the referee heard... I swear to God I said Everything is true!...Yes, I think Lin’s red card was influenced by the referee’s personal emotions, and his suspension is really not worth it.”

Verratti: "There is nothing to say about this matter. I don't think Lin is at fault. No, we will not have infighting in the locker room. In fact, all teammates are supporting Lin!"

Iaquinta: "I don't know why you don't care about Lin's scoring record in a single season in Serie A, which was just tied in the last round of the league. In my opinion, this is more worthy of report than the suspension. It happens every day on the pitch. A player who gets a red card and a ban, but there is only one player in more than 60 years who can change the history!"

Messi: "Yes, I have been in touch with Lin recently, and I congratulated him for tying the scoring record in a single season in Serie A. Did I comfort Lin? Of course I talked to him about the suspension, and his attitude was quite optimistic. Honestly I think Lin is right, if it happened to me, I probably wouldn't have played better than him. Nicola Barnett is the one who should be ashamed, Lin has clearly suffered in the game Serie A does not do a good job of protecting technical players."

Ronaldo: "Thank God the referee was stopped. Lin suffered the same thing as me. He also met Obrebo II. What right do those fans have to scold him? I think they are just afraid of the team losing. There is nothing more upsetting for a player than to vent his anger on Lin."

Obrebo, one of the top ten black whistles in football, is the referee who enforced the match between Chelsea and Barcelona in the second leg of the UEFA Champions League semi-final in the 08-09 season and called Chelsea a failure.

Lin Zhigao's teammates in the national team, including the head coach Camacho, also stood up at this moment and accepted the reporter's interview and said that they firmly supported Lin Zhigao. Their "speech against Lin" was only spread in a small range in China.

In the end, the person in charge of the largest Juventus fan group also came out and said: "There are tens of millions of Juventus fans all over the world. The negative remarks about Lin that are appearing now do not represent the opinions of all of us. In fact Most of the Zebra fans feel that they are extreme, so please don’t use the rhetoric of “Juventus fans generally think” when reporting this matter. We cannot accept being represented by certain people. If there are reporters If we continue to write news like this, we will organize people to go to the newspaper office to protest collectively.”

In football, people who have had a little contact with Lin Zhigao and who speak a lot of weight, when they are interviewed by reporters, they basically stand on Lin Zhigao's side, especially some players with more personality, such as Balotelli, The words are even more shocking: "If I am also treated like this by a referee, then I will find an opportunity to beat him secretly after the game."

At that time, all the reporters who interviewed Balotelli could not help but find out the information of the referees who had conflicts with Balotelli after returning home, and thought in their hearts: If these referees are suddenly attacked one day , Are they going to list Bashen as the number one suspect?

In European football, people who have a little friendship with Lin Zhigao, and who speak more weighty, stand on Lin Zhigao's side when they are being interviewed by reporters. This makes all reporters can't help feeling Lin Zhigao's good popularity, but , Some people with a keen sense of smell found something wrong: Why didn't they find that Juventus coach Fabio Capello stood up and was interviewed by reporters?It seems that after that game, the head coach of Juventus has disappeared from the public's field of vision. Even Real Madrid coach Mourinho couldn't help expressing his opinion on the frequent "unfair referee enforcement" incidents in football yesterday. Capello has never come forward with his own opinion.

Did something happen inside Juventus?Some people were thinking secretly.

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The speculations of many media reporters are often unconstrained and have nothing to do with the facts, but this time, their suspicions just caught the tail of the truth-there was indeed some unhappiness between Capello and Lin Zhigao.

The incident happened on the day when the Serie A Referee Committee announced the results of Lin Zhigao's handling. After seeing the punishment result of his three-match suspension, Lin Zhigao could no longer continue training calmly. If it is really because of his suspension, Juventus If Si loses the next few league games and thus shakes the top spot in the standings, he will really annoy himself to death.

Lin Zhigao felt very complicated about what he said to criticize Nicola Barnett after the game-emotionally speaking, he did not regret what he did.But from an intellectual point of view, what he did was not calm and pretty enough.

During the training, Lin Zhigao was in poor condition, which was easily noticed by his teammates. The teammates comforted Lin Zhigao, and scolded Barnett and the Italian referee committee to relieve him, but Lin Zhigao shook his head, Said: "AC Milan is only 4 points away from us in the standings..."

Pepe and others laughed: "Lin, you have no confidence in us! Don't worry, even if we can't win the game, we will try our best to keep the tie."

Verratti suddenly remembered something: "Lin, have you talked to the boss these days?"

Lin Zhigao shook his head in embarrassment.After the match against Turin, he did not have a conversation with Capello. First, he did not have much contact with Capello in private. Second, I want to wait for the results of the referee committee to come out. Now that the results have come out, he has indeed been suspended. After meeting Capello, he doesn't know what to say.

"The boss hasn't looked for you either?"

"No." Lin Zhigao himself was quite puzzled by this.

"This is strange." The teammates talked to each other: "We thought the boss had already trained you!"

"Why did the boss train Lin? He didn't do anything wrong."

"Yes, at this time, we should comfort Lin well, and then unite to play well in the league."

"But the boss's temper..." De Qielie pouted slightly: "Has he ever praised us with a smile and encouragement in a friendly voice?"

Brainstorming the scene where Capello turned into a kind uncle, Verratti and others couldn't help shivering, shaking their heads: "This is really not there."

"It's really strange that the boss didn't respond at all to this matter."

"Yes, I think so too."

"same."

"Is the boss really angry?" Pepe frowned and speculated.

The more they talked, Lin Zhigao had a bad feeling, and he couldn't help saying loudly: "Hey, you guys, don't scare me!"

The teammates hurriedly raised their hands and said, "We just expressed our thoughts."

Lin Zhigao didn't want to just hang himself in mid-air like this, making him feel like he was going to die, so he glanced at his teammates and said, "Then I'll go to the boss's office to find out what's going on?"

"Look at his attitude, if it's not right, just admit it." Buffon said cautiously: "It's nothing to lose face, just don't be hated."

Lin Zhigao nodded, came to Capello's office, knocked on the door, and walked in.

Capello is currently struggling with the tactical arrangements for the next round of the league. The absence of the core of the team requires him to overthrow all the previous team's usual tactics and set up multiple lineups to deal with the inevitable opponents who will take advantage of Lin Zhigao. The other Serie A teams who were absent and "take advantage of the fire" really killed most of his brain cells.

So when Lin Zhigao suddenly appeared and interrupted Capello's busy schedule, his first reaction was to ask coldly, "What do you want from me?"

Most of Lin Zhigao's blood was frozen immediately.

He stood motionless on the spot, thinking to himself, "Capello is really angry with me", but at the same time, he was also a little worried—is Capello also blaming him?If so, will he be punished after he ends his suspension?

Hesitatingly, Lin Zhigao's original plan of "simply bowing his head and admitting mistakes when he sees something wrong" was not carried out.

Capello, who waited for a long time without seeing Lin Zhigao's response, looked up, and happened to see Lin Zhigao holding a newspaper tightly in his hand - it happened to publish the results of the Serie A referee committee's handling, and the big scarlet letter " Lin Zhigao has been suspended for three games!" Printed in the middle, Capello, who thought Lin Zhigao was here to excuse himself, said impatiently: "If you have nothing to do, get out of my office, I'm busy!"

Lin Zhigao raised the newspaper in his hand and said in a low voice, "My suspension..."

Capello said impatiently: "This has become an established fact, and the club cannot appeal for you a second time."

Who said I have to continue to appeal? !Being so suspected, Lin Zhigao felt a little uncomfortable, so he retorted in a slightly aggressive tone: "I didn't come to ask the club to continue appealing for me."

"Then you came to my office to deliberately waste my working time, just to express your grievance and unwillingness?"

The cold words directly pierced Lin Zhigao's heart, making him wonder if Capello is really a cold-blooded animal?Why can other head coaches gently encourage and comfort players, but with him, there will always be more criticism and satire?

People are warm animals, anyone who has been frozen for a long time will feel disheartened.Lin Zhigao left a faint sentence: "I'm sorry to bother you, I'm leaving now", and was about to turn around and leave.

Capello noticed something was wrong: "What are you going to do?"

"Go back to the training ground and continue training, sir."

Lin Zhigao came to his office and walked around, said a few words of unknown meaning, and then left?So what is he here for?Capello frowned slightly and said, "Why did you come to me?"

"I came here to apologize." Lin Zhigao said dryly with a smile, "but now I don't think it's necessary. Probably no matter how sincere my words are, you won't take them seriously."

His smile made Capello frown: "Are you trying to apologize? With such a weird expression?"

Lin Zhigao said nonchalantly: "So I said, I changed my mind and don't apologize." He turned and walked towards the door.

"Stop for me!" Capello frowned and said, "Who allows you to come to my office and leave immediately after pissing?"

"Otherwise, why do you want to continue banning me from the team?" Lin Zhigao unconsciously raised his voice a little: "If you want to punish me, I will obediently accept it! Five games, ten games, even if you are banned forever If I compete, I will accept it, okay?!"

"Is this your attitude towards the head coach?!" What Capello couldn't stand the most was that the players he taught had the upper hand in terms of momentum, which almost touched his scales.

"Should I just be humble to you all my life?" Lin Zhigao couldn't help but get a little red around his eyes: "I can't do it!"

"If you hate me, just say it! Don't make such a crying expression, why is a man crying!"

"I didn't hate you before, not at all, but now I really have such negative emotions!" Lin Zhigao took a deep breath: "In order to avoid arguing with you and causing other people's speculation, please forgive me and leave!" Said After finishing, he ran out of the office immediately, and closed the door behind him, making a loud "bang".

Capello sat behind the desk for a long time, and finally rubbed his brows, feeling a little puzzled and doubtful in his heart—from Baggio, Totti, to Piero, Cassano, now even he once thought Lin Zhigao, who has a good personality, has conflicts with himself. Why?