After the video referee in last night’s (Monday) match between Hapoel Beer Sheva and Maccabi Tel Aviv, David Foxman, did not see the angle from which Joshua York was seen towards Avi Rikan, the referees ‘association intends to examine the video referees’ claims that Neve Ilan, where they are Sitting in some of the games, they do not get all the angles that can be seen on TV in the main game.
The union does not intend to recommend that the Football Association’s prosecutor, Nir Reshef, file an indictment against Joshua, as this is not under their authority. The association’s prosecutor will ask the game’s referee, Gal Leibowitz, if he saw the case and interpreted it differently, since if the referee saw the incident, the player could not be prosecuted according to the rules. In case he has not seen him, the association prosecutor still has the option to prosecute the Portuguese based on the TV cameras and he is expected to receive a deportation sentence.
In addition, Eli Hachmon will be suspended for a long time – this was decided by the professional committee of the Judges’ Association. It will be recalled that Hachmon did not whistle for Pendel clearly in favor of Maccabi Haifa in the victory over Hapoel Kfar Saba, after failing over Omar Atzili and did not accept the criticism leveled at him for the same incident. So video judge Naal Odeh called Hachmon to the video position, but the latter chose not to change his decision.
Union general manager Yariv Tepper and the squad Eitan Tabrizi, who were interviewed last night, criticized Hakmon who had already made a mistake and was suspended twice this season, and at the end of the season will hang the whistle. Since he was an international referee, Hakmon may apply for another season.
