incomplete

"referees understand the laws of the game, but they don't necessarily understand the game."

the commentator said this after the referee in the toulouse-lyon match sent off kallstroem. it was rather controversial. i didnt catch what happened; i was switching channels and all. but what i saw from the replay was that kallstroem was caught on the face when dieuze and him jumped for the ball. then i think he must have reacted. and then we see him spitting water at the fourth official. he must have said something to the referee.

well, haven't we seen this before. gilberto vs robbie savage last season. and many other examples. it is a mockery. of course it is wrong to retaliate, but sometimes you ahve to understand that footballers are humans too. they have emotions. you must see where they are coming from, why they react like that.

i guess the problem with officials is that often, they perfect the art of objectivity, of looking at things mechanically, without factoring human emotions.

but i guess it applies to us too. sometimes we only look at one side of the coin. we are obsessed with that side, so much so that we forget to flip it over and consider the other. but i do think the commentator hit the nail on its head. sometimes we think we really know something. but we don't know its soul. it is incomplete.

and so it was, lyon lost 1-0 to toulouse in only the second match of the season.

juninho's free-kick confirmed to me that he really is the best free-kick taker in the world, after i had seen him take one against auxerre last week.

and i sure hope like hell toulouse knock liverpool out of the champions' league.