One of the biggest and never-ending storms in recent times in Israeli football is related to the whole issue of refereeing, especially the dismissals recorded in the last rounds of players and even coaches. Joshua was at the center of quite a few such cases, whether through his own fault or the fault of the judges, and today (Thursday) Alona Barkat went on the ‘open field’ program to defend him.
“First of all he did not say what was said about him to the judges, he said it in a vacuum and did not say the two sentences in question,” the owner began. “The essence here is the referees’ mistakes time and time again, he came back to play after four games. He loves the game. What did they keep him away from? He hurried, he wanted to resume the game in a tie. I do not know anywhere in the world who sent a player away with a second yellow. Because he wanted to hurry. “
“He’s a man, he has emotions in the heat of the game, passion and disappointment. He said what he said as he sat in the hallway when there was no referee next to him. He did not say the sentence ‘I will kill you’, the only sentence he said was in the tunnel and he said ‘You kill me’. .
“After our previous game, where a VAR referee sits in a fully air-conditioned room, disqualified a legal goal in the 96th minute. There is no reason for that, I can understand everything, but I do not understand how a referee sitting comfortably, without pressure, still disqualifies a legal goal. Then an actor at the height of his emotions says ‘Shame Judgment’. I told the actors what I think of this form of speech. “What to do he was in the locker room.”
“He’s a football star, the little things that are done to him in the middle of the game, in the last game he came out with a swollen ankle. He’s a player who has his pros and cons, and he works on the things he’s less good at. The referees’ job is to keep those players too. He has an image that is always sought after. “
“It’s not only we can not deal with him, we deal with him. There is a complete lack of confidence in the referees’ decisions. You have to see him in training. He lives football and breathes football. He is not guarded, he gets the most ‘teasing’ and you get on his feet. The man passes. “An amazing process with himself, and instead of helping him, he is constantly being pushed back. He is aware of his problem, he is working on his problem, he loves our club and he is a winner in his soul.”
“We are talking to him and the negotiations on an advanced contract extension. He really likes the club and the fans. Aboksis and Bnei Yehuda? Joshua in a wonderful conversation with us and I deal with that. The spitting movement? I took it to the experts in the video – no one saw a spit. The VAR judges went and checked this thing, they did not see a spit and therefore told the judge that there was no spitting. It was a disturbing decision, the VAR judges saw and decided there was no spitting. The prosecutor nevertheless decided to prosecute him, and that is a dangerous opening for Israeli football. “
“We are not the most deprived team in terms of refereeing. The football association must do a home inspection. When we sit in an air-conditioned room they are not supposed to make a mistake. “Even so, we are in a busy period of Corona and injuries, there is also the law of reason.”