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It's super common to hate the referee, in every sport.

• hef19898 5y ago
  Oh, did I hate some referees. I wasn't referring to referees, so. But the people, either practitioners or not, that have some "higher" goal of keeping whatever sport "pure". Usually not necessarily group consensus, always driven by personal opinion and usually turning into crusades of sorts because, of course, those guardians are right. Referees are just making sure rules are followed.
  • daniel-cussen 5y ago
    Those crusaders driven by personal opinion and turning into crusaders of sorts, those "self-righteous" guys, those are the people that decide to become refs. It's the same thing. That drive can be genuine. Real people went to real crusades at one point. Contemporary Jihadi terrorist organizations refer to American missions in the Middle East as crusades right in their names, you can find it in the CIA's world factbook. It's an accusation-of-accusation word in the media, "conspiracy" is another one, newscasters attempt to discredit people by accusing them of accusing others of conspiring. This happened to George Carlin, for one, who turned it around on the newscaster and the whole crowd cheered him. EDIT: now that I'm reading your posts again I recall the ref who did a truly gross thing, declare a penalty in the 1998 World Cup between Italy and Chile. Turns out he really had been given a crazy bribe. Just so disgusting.
    • hef19898 5y ago
      None of the refs I encountered was like that. It was usually amateur practitioners that filled the role, with some doing it full time. Those, rare, cases of those self-righteous asses I encountered were either trainers (a rare few), functionaries (usually to get to control their own tournaments and promote their favorites) and mostly very, let's say, enthusiastic amateurs with more ego than actual skill and success.