{"id":255,"date":"2010-06-28T06:57:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T06:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2015-07-14T10:30:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T02:30:56","slug":"uruguayan-referee-jorge-larrionda-an-idiot-or-grave-digger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/travel-abroad\/sports\/uruguayan-referee-jorge-larrionda-an-idiot-or-grave-digger","title":{"rendered":"Uruguayan referee Jorge Larrionda, an idiot or grave digger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Not a football fan, but as for the world football cup on a four year cycle, I would choose some of the matches\u00a0linking to my favorite teams like Italy, Brazil, Argentina, England, Germany, etc. no matter on finals, quarterfinals, knockout rounds, or even the group stage.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">For me,\u00a0any football\u00a0match in the world\u00a0cup\u00a0is a kind of entertainment rather than a\u00a0competition between two teams\u00a0like a war without\u00a0weapons. You find nothing like patriotism in the course of watching the games here. You know, China PR national football team is not there. And I don&#8217;t think this infamous team will be on the world stage within 50 years.\u00a0Poor are the football fans in China, who have no hope for their happy days to come!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Last night (June 27, 2010), the knockout round between England and Germany was the focus for the global football fans. They are both my favorite teams. I sat before the TV, drinking beer, eating snacks, enjoying life and feeling comfortable seeing the two teams playing the game.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">But my enjoyment was disrupted by the Uruguayan referee Jorge Larrionda. He gave a\u00a0blown call that denied\u00a0England a valid goal breaking the balance in the competition. England&#8217;s player &#8211; Lampard&#8221;s shot bounce down off the crossbar and the ball pass the line by more than a foot for what should have been a goal. The Uruguayan referee Jorge Larrionda turned a blind eye on it. He is an idot or grave digger who deliberately digs a grave for the England Team to fall in? It is disgusting, like a dead fly in my rice bowl.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">A referee is a human being. All Human beings make mistakes. So why not using a modern facility\u00a0hepling to\u00a0address\u00a0a man made blunder? A referee\u00a0controls the fates of elite players. But who controls a referee? No control will be followed by corruption and unfairness. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I feel sorry for the England&#8217;elite players, and fans on the spot and at home. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Maybe\u00a0this\u00a0is life, which is teamed with unfairness, setback, frustration&#8230; We have to be strong enough to keep on walking ahead.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_291\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-291\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ball-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-291\" title=\"Ball 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ball-1-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ball-1-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ball-1.jpg 411w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A good advertisement for condoms. Ha! Ha! (xkb.com.cn)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Not a football fan, but as for the world football cup on a four year cycle, I would choose some of the matches\u00a0linking to my favorite teams like Italy, Brazil, Argentina, England, Germany, etc. no matter on finals, quarterfinals, knockout rounds, or even the group stage. For me,\u00a0any football\u00a0match in the world\u00a0cup\u00a0is a kind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17879,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/17879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}