Albin Lundin was suspended for three matches and fined SEK 10,000 for acting as assistant referee in the match against Örebro.
I am ashamed on behalf of the Disciplinary Board.
It sounds like pure judicial murder.
It is the assistant referee who misses the correct rule.
I don’t know how many times I’ve been in this situation now.
But there is a lot.
Many times I have freed Albin Lundin from all responsibility.
Proving that he was negligent seems like a pure explanation that has no connection to reality.
Where is the point?
It is hardly punishable
Albin Lundin enters from the players box and sets full speed to enter the game from the far short side.
At the same time, the linesman slowly slides from his position at the edge and heads straight into Lundin’s lane.
It’s a touch, the referee falls to the ice without a hand, and that’s obviously unfortunate.
But punished?
barely.
It’s embarrassing that he was stopped and fined after a pure accident that neither party could have avoided.
Timrå is now appealing this ruling and I find it difficult not to implement it in a higher court.
You should do it.
For everyone’s sake.
I apologize
In addition, it created more rancor, as the Disciplinary Board believed that Albin Lundin was completely indifferent after that and did not care at all about how the referee performed.
This is clearly not true.
The Timrå player did everything he could to check this out.
He asked to call and apologized.
It’s not often that a player would fight the fight that Lundin has now chosen to fight, but it’s absolutely valid to protest when you feel you’ve been treated unfairly.
Where did common sense go?
I have always defended judges and their vulnerable position.
But this really has nothing to do with them.
It should feel like a real slap in the face
Naturally, this should have ended with a handshake immediately after the match and an apology after an unfortunate situation that neither party could have avoided.
Roughly what happened according to Albin Lundin.
So I fully understand that this sentence must be a real slap in the face for him, and he is absolutely right to plead his case.
I also react to the Disciplinary Board’s interpretation of the rules when they write:
“Physical contact that could have been avoided, and where the player or manager has demonstrated indifference to the consequences of his or her actions, is considered intentional physical contact under this rule, even in cases where the player or manager clearly did not intend to initiate physical contact with the player.” “Judgment.”
Nothing I saw of the incident supports this explanation.
On the contrary.
No, take it back and do it right.
I believe that will happen when the National Sports Commission (Rin) reviews the whole matter.
Anything else would be a disaster.