Three days have passed since Maccabi Tel Aviv’s dramatic victory over Hapoel Kiryat Shmona (0: 1) – the one that was controversially achieved after referee Snir Levy ruled a penalty for the Yellows in extra time despite a display of Matan Hozaz inside the extension.
It turns out that the spirits in Israeli football are still turbulent following the ruling, which was actually made by video referee Daniel Bar Natan, who reversed the original decision, and helped the referee conclude that there was a penalty, which Dan Bitton translated into an expensive victory goal for the champion.
“Under no circumstances did Maccabi Tel Aviv have a penalty. Daniel Bar Natan did not make the decision in a clean slate,” the former referee accused Shai Sheetrit In an interview with 5 on the air, “but in order to keep the league alive. Ostensibly. Why should Bar Natan call the central referee for such a thing? Think why. What went through his mind? That the league should be interesting? The technology is delusional. How many times does a referee go to? “WAS in the Champions League? Only when it’s something unequivocal, and not something delusional in the first place.”
Sheetrit said no, he is not part of the union: “Because of Yariv Tepper, the general manager of the judges’ union. He can not please a man like me. If I were in the position of the judges’ union, Tepper would be dealing with administrative matters, not professionally. They claimed that I was allegedly suing the association for the compensation I was entitled to for six years. So I will imprison the prosecution. So they said I would get the job because they removed the lawsuit. But the job was offered to me before. If I’m offered a job I can make decisions properly, this lawsuit does not interest me. I do not lack money, it’s the last thing I need. I want to contribute to the judges’ union, but not be a puppet. Want to advance professionally? I will come to promote professionally. “
Judges’ Union response: “Shai Sheetrit is in a lawsuit in the Labor Court against the Football Association and all the allegations will be clarified in the court. Accordingly, and unlike Sheetrit, our response will be restrained and unobtrusive. Eitan Tabrizi has an excellent stroke who does his job faithfully and diligently.”
“It would have been better for Sheetrit to behave in a friendly manner with his friends in the profession (even if former) – Eitan Tabrizi and Daniel Bar Natan, but apparently values like friendship and telling the truth are something foreign to Sheetrit. “He will continue to enjoy single moments of glory when he slanders his friends or comes up to tell about the same traumatic injury. The cunning line of thought that Sheetrit attributes to Bar Natan testifies to him and not to a respected judge like Bar Natan who erred in good faith.”