Sunday, July 15, 2018

The Golden Seeing Eye Dog Award

After the World Cup Final this morning both teams were awarded their medals and trophies, and among these were trophies for the best player (the Golden Ball), best young player (the Silver Ball), highest goal scorer (the Golden Boot), etc.

Well, seeing as how this World Cup, despite having the ability to use video replays and a roomful of assistant referees dutifully watching everything carefully to see what actually occurred on the field, the refereeing still managed to be largely incompetent. (As an example, I need only point to the first goal of the game, which was from a free kick, awarded for a dive: there was no foul, and the free kick should have been given the other way, and there's no excuse whatsoever for that with the video assistant referee.)

And so I propose another trophy to be awarded to the worst referee of the tournament: the Golden Seeing Eye Dog Award, to indicate how the "honored" referee was unable to see the events of the game accurately.