A threat to football ... 415

Yes, the following represents a true threat to football:

Are Organized Crime Gambling division interests orchestrating this weird series of England failures at the World Cup for the past 3 cycles, involving Beckham having himself Sent Off, Beckham claiming a foot injury in 2002 caused him to lose the ball leading to the Brazil winning goal and now Rooney claiming a foot injury And having himself Sent Off in 2006.

Has Gambling corruption in the UK gone so completely out of control that these sorts of outrageous crimes are developing right under the news of the UK people and Press and no one ask questions.

And does the control of the UK Press by Rupert Murdoch, who controls a huge empire of Organized Crime Gambling interests, prevent the UK News media from focusing on this glaring danger to the sport, and to the aspirations of England soccer fans.

Does Organized Crime have control of the supply of Undetectable steroids and human growth hormone which these players need to even be selected for the England squad, and thus have a corrupt influence and control over these players?

We report, you decide.

John

================================================= 1) I find it hard to believe that England striker Wayne Rooney would have conducted himself in the World Cup quarterfinal game (July 01 2006) in the way he did, unless he wanted to be Sent Off.

Normally, when a player has committed what might be considered a serious foul by the referee, he tends to be very pbuttive about what he does next until he sees the referee rule on the matter. Instead, Rooney grabs and then pushes another player (Cristiano Ronaldo) in a clear physical action which normally indicates the inclination to start a fist fight.

The two handed push to the chest of another man is the equivalent of throwing down the gauntlet, and Rooney had to know that. That sort of continued violent behavior is an indication to a referee of a player out of control, is always a clear demand for a red card before that player starts a riot in the match and the referee loses control..

2) The question is, why would Rooney want to be sent off ? Clearly there is a corruption scandal in Italy already being investigated, but there is just as much Organized Crime Gambling influence in England. Could Rooney have been paid off by Organized Crime Gambling Division to force the referee to send him off ?

3) In the scenario of play which led up to the accidentally-on-purpose Rooney stamping on the Portugal player, the referee clearly deviated from normal refereeing by failing to call first a Serious Foul (Intent To Injure) by Carvalho on Rooney's ankle, which caused Rooney to lose balance and fall to the ground and then a further bevy of leg tackling attempts by the two Portugal players who had been shadowing him during the game. Since the referee did not call those fouls, this may well indicate that the referee intended to allow some physical play and that might indicate that it was not his intention to send off Rooney for the stamping action itself, which is what appeared by the referee's initial actions after the stamping.

The initial foul by Carvalho 6 seconds before the stamp could easily have broken Rooney's right ankle. In fact, if you watch the tape closely, you can see that Carvalho retreats immediately after that initial lunge at Rooney's ankle, obviously because he buttumed a foul would be called by the referee. It was only after he recognized that the referee would allow this initial Serious Foul (Intent To Injuire) that he went back and continued to foul Rooney to precipitate the stamp by Rooney.

The question here is whether the referee was within his rights to not call the fouls to protect Rooney in the Serious Foul (Intent To Injure) scenario before Rooney stamped on the Portugal player.

4) As a US observer to the soccer world run by FIFA, I wonder whether the FIFA organization has ever considered giving the referee the option to Send Off a player with the ability to allow the team of the offending player to replace him with a Substitute.

Penalizing a Team should only occur if the Team (and their supporters) could be considered responsible for the offense committed. That is, where a Team Coach-Manager may have told a player to go out and purposely injure an opposing player. In the US which has numerous indigenous sports, it is never the case in any of them that the Team is ever forced to player with reduced numbers of players because a referee chose to send off a player. Ice Hockey in the US-Canada is more of a Canadian-European sport in origin and that sport does force the team to play with reduced numbers, but only for a short period of time (I think 2 minutes).

Sending off a player and forcing the Team to play with reduced numbers for the rest of the game simply decides the outcome of the game and thus it is a vehicle for corruption and match fixing since the Organized Crime Gambling functionaries only need to Bribe one guy, either the offending player or the Referee, to fix the outcome of a match.

Does anyone know whether FIFA has considered allowing the referee to send off a player and allow the team of the offending player to replace him with a substitute ?

5) Currently, the spectator sport enjoyment of world soccer is being damaged by the likelihood that the game will be determined by the sometimes corrupt actions of one man, either the Offending Player or the Referee, resulting in a player being Sent Off, which determines immediately the result of the match.

Who wants to watch a sports event in which the outcome could well be controlled by Organized Crime ? The Winning Team must win because they were the better team and played better than the other team on the night. Anything else damages world soccer.

John

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