The referee made a mistake, when will VPF and VFF apologize?

The referee caused controversy in the match between Ho Chi Minh City Club and Thanh Hoa .

Not only the two teams that are suffering, Da Nang and Thanh Hoa, fans are waiting for the reaction of VPF and VPF after the noise related to the referee. Will the organizers and the referees admit their mistakes, or somehow prove that those were the correct decisions?

After Thanh Hoa club reacted strongly to two referee decisions - one of which was clearly wrong, there was a stream of opinions on social media defending the referee. In the situation where coach Velizar Popov received a second yellow card, there was an opinion that this coach broke the rules by kicking the water bottle.

However, if VPF also argues in this direction, it would be wrong. According to the football law issued by IFAB, kicking a water bottle is only a foul if it is an act of reaction to the referee. Mr. Popov has repeatedly criticized the referee, but that cannot be the basis for judging that his action of kicking a water bottle was a protest against the penalty decision.

Thanh Hoa FC confirmed that coach Popov got angry with his team's players. Only the Bulgarian coach knows the real reason. However, the act of kicking a water bottle after an unfavorable situation - which is not uncommon in football matches - being labeled as protesting the referee seems forced.

The situation where Thanh Hoa FC unfairly lost a penalty due to an offside error - due to a referee error that VAR did not intervene - is beyond debate. Slow motion video clearly shows it.

Referees make mistakes everywhere. The most attractive and most commercially valuable league in the world , the Premier League, is no exception. Even the best referees in the UK, such as Anthony Taylor and Michael Oliver, are the ones who receive the most criticism.

How do Premier League officials handle referee errors? They also have teams that analyze each controversial incident. Depending on the tournament and the severity of the error, the league and PGMOL can impose a number of sanctions. The lightest is a warning, which can escalate to a written reprimand, a transfer to a lower division, and the most serious are temporary suspension and termination of contract.

In late 2024, a Premier League referee was fired after a video emerged of him insulting Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp. In 2023, Lee Mason was also dismissed after making a rookie mistake and being sued by Arsenal.

There was a period when PGMOL and the league's organizers had to apologize to teams 14 times in 18 months for refereeing mistakes in matches. In the 2022-2023 season alone, the English refereeing coordination body had to apologize to Brighton club 3 times.

The last time the VFF referee board publicly apologized to a V.League team was... 5 years ago. At that time, Nam Dinh club was the one apologized to after being continuously mistreated during the period when they had to work hard to stay in the league. Apologies for refereeing in Vietnam seem unlikely to appear.

Xiao Ming

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