txj wrote:
Wondered how/why Oliver was appointed to ref the Juve/Madrid game...
Turns out this was an affirmative action decision to help 'grow' a young English ref by assigning him a high profile game.
To be clear, I do not blame him for the PK call. Nothing in his experience could've prepared him for dealing with Madrid's Lucas Vazquez- a well rounded and thoroughbred simulator.
Close watchers of La Liga would know of Vazquez, going back to his loan days with Espanyol.
For me, the events that led to Buffon's red card was in part a product of Oliver's failures, inexperience and general poor management. Oliver is fundamentally a poor ref' although I have to admit he is better than Jon Moss!
Txj
Honestly, I am beyond shock at your use of affirmative action to describe a referee that you describe as being "helped" to grow and, in essence, allude to the referee's non-qualification for a position to which he had been entrusted. Make no mistake, I am not interested in this referee but in your use of affirmative action as a descriptor. It is an indelibly shocking descriptor to use. In fact, to state that it is shocking is to state the least. May I assume that it is an error on your part?
Here is what affirmatiove action is:
an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination.Am I to assume that you believe that so many minorities, who are quite qualified, but would have been denied access without this program, are unqualified for positions that they access? Or should I assume that you are unaware what affirmative action is? Why exactly do you the
affirmative action to describe this particular individual?