Two of the Yanga and Azam FC midfielders, Mudathir Yahya and Feisal Salum, respectively, are awaiting a three-match suspension after committing acts interpreted as refusing to hold hands with other players or superstitious beliefs.
This is due to the principles that have prevented such actions so that the game of football can continue its purpose of being a fair and fair game.
These are regulations that aim to punish a player, but mostly affect a club that spent millions to sign him and pay him wages, allowances and bonuses.
Under normal circumstances you would expect that these rules should only target the player to regret the error and consider rehabilitating himself so that he is not hurt again by such punishments.
But because it hurts so many people, namely the player, the team and the fans, the severity and goal of the penalty does not affect the player and he will probably be comforted by the fans and even his leaders to the extent that he has not had a serious offense or been bullied.
These are just some of the many players who affect their teams with their own mistakes. There are some who did not attend the private awards ceremony of last season whose rules call for a three-game suspension for the offense.
I personally see no reason for a player who missed the award ceremony personally to be penalised for missing his club’s game which was not involved in the least to prevent him from attending the ceremony and countless during that time he was on holiday after the league ended.
And besides, the following season he may have moved on to another club that will be affected by that incredible offense.
Football endorsement
These are the principles that are based on consent football. They are designed by the mentality of consent football and not professional football that aims to punish a player for regretting a mistake.
In consent football, a player is seen as playing by his consent and not forced by contract and thus, this player does not live by relying on playing football but his other economic activities such as employment, business or agriculture.
Therefore, the only way to punish him is to prevent him from finding the happiness he seeks in the ball after his personal pursuits. Even if you stop him from playing three months it’s just fine because football is not a priority for him.
But when you talk about professional football you think of the game itself and the player’s economy.
That is, if he acts that remove the dignity, then it is important that he be punished by looking at how he will be affected economically. That’s why there are so many fines in professional football as the game itself is an employment.
How can a player who refuses to shake hands with other players, how is he prevented from playing three games and affect the team when the offense is his own and does not involve the team?
How do we know it was the player’s personal physician who advised him not to do so without the team’s knowledge?
We’ve seen a lot of accusations among players accusing each other of each other, how can that be a personal problem?
There’s no logic
I don’t want to defend such mistakes, but the logic of denying a team the services of a player it serves for millions of dollars to do well, I don’t see it in that lockout.
The operators of professional leagues are always concerned with teams playing in the right way to give fans the entertainment they follow, not create an environment for teams to play below their potential.
At one point I wrote about the South African Premier League refusing to join the national team that was coming to the country to play a friendly with Tanzania outside the dates set by the International Football Federation (FIFA).
The act was done to protect the brand of the South African Premier League (PSL) that its teams must play in a fit and not a reduced capacity for its players to be called up to the national team. The same is true of these punishments.
I was reading one penalty rule that a referee can give before and during a match.
If a player makes a mistake before the match, he can be shown a yellow card and if the match starts with another yellow card, it will not be counted as a second card and therefore sent out.
The events during the match are different from what happens during the game, so his penalties cannot be matched enough to cause him to be barred from playing the next matches.
Moreover, Mudathir and Fei Toto were not even shown a yellow card, how could their punishments be meted out to punish their teams?
Under the standards
It is very important for the authorities to review our regulations and begin to eliminate the overcrowded conceit that causes our teams to play below their intended potential.
Mistakes that occur during the game, those should be punished by the player being barred from playing the next match, but not those before the game, some of which are only due to the interpretation of the penalty-takers.
In the country’s top league, companies and individuals put a lot of money into different goals, and fans come expecting to see high-quality entertainment.
When they miss it, as on the day when United were forced to play eight on the pitch, the taste of the league goes away and some qualities like the best scorers or goalkeeper not allowing a goal, they lack the sweetness that is expected.
The League Board (TPLB) and the Football Federation (TFF), which endorse the regulations, should sit down and consider how to get rid of regulations that eliminate unfair competition and lose the flavour of the game.
TPLB must do everything it can to protect its brand so that it is fully clear that the winner of the Premier League is not the one who is cleverly found, but the one who competes fairly to win the title.
Source: The Chanzo