Mykola Nesenyuk: "Qatar Rules"

The famous journalist Mykola Nesenyuk commented on the victory of the Argentina national team at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar on his Facebook.

Imagine an important football match for which the teams have been preparing for a long time and which is extremely important to them. Coaches choose tactics, players follow their instructions, give all their strength on the field and show all their skill. Suddenly, the referee finds a reason to award a penalty kick to one of the teams. This team is in despair at the injustice, shocked at how their efforts were ruined with one whistle! Players lose their vigilance, emotions lead to mistakes and the opponent, taking advantage of this, scores a second time!

It was according to such a scenario that decisive matches of the World Cup with the participation of Argentina took place. The most interesting thing is that not only I and other people who are at least slightly familiar with football knew about the inevitable penalty against the Argentine opponents. This was also known to the opponents, who were afraid not only to touch, but even to blow in the direction of the opponent near their own goal! Well, how can the Argentines not show an extra-class attacking game!

And there is no need to talk about the second goals scored by them after those eleven-meter ones already according to the rules. It's like one of the boxers in the ring suddenly kicks his opponent in the balls. And when he bends in pain, not understanding what is happening, he will knock him out with a left hook according to all the rules. The same applies to the fairness of "Messi penalty kicks". Just as Ostap Bender knew four hundred relatively honest ways to take money from a scumbag, so a qualified referee knows about the same number of ways to "find" when it is necessary, a violation and award a penalty. The main thing is that after this, the further course of the game is distorted, no matter how this game develops later.

In my opinion, at the World Cup in Qatar, all matches of Argentina should have started immediately with a penalty kick for Messi, so that the opponent would not suffer. Yes, I think it would be more honest! And let it be with him, with this Messi and his "helpers". There is another threat - now all referees in the world will be able to do the same thing, and when they are told to do so, they will go to Argentina's matches in Qatar. Like, these are the rules now!

One thing is pleasing - this will not happen in the English championship. And when it passes, it will fundamentally solve nothing. The Qatari nightmare, which the World Cup final tournament turned into, will be forgotten there like a bad dream. And with us, I'm afraid, on the contrary - they will remember it well. And already in the spring, if everything goes well, we will definitely see more than one game under the "Qatari rules" on our football fields.

Mykola Nesenyuk