The AC Milan-Fiorentina penalty has reignited the controversy over the players’ heightened reactions. The TV test was abandoned with the advent of the VAR, but is still used in other cases (such as swearing). And it can be a solution
During “Open Var” the former referee De Marco, now a liaison between Can and the Serie A and B clubs, underlined the problem inherent in simulations, in accentuating the reaction after the blows received on the pitch. The referee Gianluca Rocchi had already spoken about it (“You can also hear ‘inhuman’ shouts, to impress the referee, it induces you to make mistakes”), but the topic returns in an overbearing and pressing manner after Milan-Fiorentina.
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De Marco speaks clearly and one seems to hear the person in charge considering the situation that has arisen between Parisi and Gimenez: “Gimenez accentuates a lot – says Andrea De Marco – and this season we have seen attitudes of this type, players who have just been touched and it is as if they had received a violent blow. I believe that Rocchi was very clear at the beginning of the season and in recent days the Commission is studying the measures to be taken also in the future for situations of this type because on the pitch maximum respect is needed and these situations should be eliminated. Furthermore, a certain attitude must not be rewarding; indeed, as soon as possible there could be a crackdown, starting from next Sunday the referees will prevent things like this from happening.” Some suppose that there could also be – but not immediately – a return to the TV test, abandoned with the advent of the VAR but not abolished (for example for swearing): only hypotheses for now, also because these measures will have to be studied in detail. By the relevant bodies. Raising awareness through words didn’t work. Is returning to the old TV test an idea? Yes, it’s an idea.
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It all stems from Gimenez’s emphasis in Milan-Fiorentina which led to the penalty. “I see the wide arm but it doesn’t hit him”, says the referee Livio Marinelli in the audio on “Open Var”. And instead Parisi crawls Gimenez’s face and then holds him back: all lightly, let’s be clear. VAR intervenes. “He takes him in the face – say Abisso and Avar Di Paolo -. It’s still a gratuitous gesture. And what’s more, he also holds him back. I recommend an ‘OFR’.” And then De Marco rules: “The VAR must not intervene because there should be an on-field evaluation. With the very high threshold for penalty kicks given by Rocchi, this wouldn’t be the case but if the referee had decided to give it on the pitch, the VAR would not have intervened to take it away. The VAR may have found it even heavier than it is, but then Marinelli assessed it that way.” Until next time…
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