Soon after Germany trashed England, my Facebook was riddled with message regards the terrible decision, untrustworthy refs, etc. How unfair and unfortunate it was, was followed by the know-alls wondering why slo-mo replays or hawk-eye technology could not be used to determine whether the ball crossed the goal line or not. But I am not going to get into the nitty-gritty of technologies that work for a small hard leather ball, and whether they would work for an air-filled Jabulani – neither am I going to get into how that would, in my view, kill some of the soul and spirit of football (the one played with a spherical ball).
My concern is regarding the color brown. What is being brown?
Answer: Being brown is aspiring to be white, to do white, and follow wherever the Anglo-Saxon press & lifestyle will lead you with a carrot or whatever; while sympathizing for black. When we put all of this into a big drum and shake it all around, we have brown!!
An instance is the Facebrown reaction to the Germany England 4-1 taken together with the total silence over the Uruguay Ghana penalty shootout decision. The brown position regards the English exit was that it was time the game of football used technology and ensured the referee mistakes don’t color (yeah, any color take is fully intended) the eventual outcome. But a large spectrum of brown doesn’t really follow basketball, and those that follow basketball probably don’t follow football. Due to that, there have been no murmurs on Facebrown about how the rules of football should be changed to award ‘goal-tending’ calls as a goal against the offending team. This would be along basketball lines, it would be one hundred percent Anglo-Saxon fair, and would have given the game to Ghana in the 120th minute – making them the first African team to get to the semis of the greatest sporting spectacle in the planet. Not a murmur.
But brown is more likely to feel sorry for Ghana, to empathize with them, to verbalize their ‘so-near-yet-so-far’. Gyan (‘Jeeyan’) picking himself up after the penalty (which he wouldn’t have had to take if football rules ruled goal tending as a goal) miss and converting the first penalty shootout kick for Ghana – that might get a footnote. Brown might also not feel that Suarez celebrating the Gyan 120th minute penalty miss, still hanging around in the field of play, is the most shameful thing in recent football memory. Hats off, Brown!!
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Its high-time the FIFA rulebook need a total rehash. Suarez celebrating the miss near the touchline was disgusting. In a way you are right. Come to think about it, the sympathy towards black is just an Anglo-Saxon trait and thus brown.
ReplyDeleteBut if there is a team that showed such silky display of football it was Ghana. I felt there were even better than Spain in all departments except the final third!
I haven't seen the Ghana match and the extent of intent/accident involved. However, I don't see both as parallel situations... (condemned/ doomed to be brown?:))
ReplyDeleteThe first one doesn't need a change in the structure/ limits, only in the observation, the second one does.
Sita
But my brownness won't go to the extent of not condemning the celebration...
ReplyDeleteYes, not really apples to apples...
ReplyDeleteBut if we had super-duper-slo-mo instead of only slo-mo, could we see how much the Jabulani compressed when Suarez handled the ball? And in the compressed form, did the ball cross the line? In game-7 of the NBA finals this year slo-mos show Paul Gasol travelling before he nailed a crucial 3 - and rules there allow refs to refer to tech. I am generally more comfortable thinking of what is seen by someone on the field in realtime as 'real'...if the fat lady didn't sing, then its not all over yet...