Sporting Umpires Essay

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The role of sporting umpires is a long and thankless task. Whatever game they umpire, it is all the same. The preparation they go through every week to perform at their best, physically and mentally, it will always finish in the same way. When the game is finished, how do the umpires know if they have performed well, they don't get cheered off the ground, or named in the best players. They find themselves walking off the ground alone into a small change room, get changed and head home. No one goes to the game to see them perform, but without an umpire the sport wouldn’t take place. Umpires are making mistakes all round the world and teams seem to be prepared for these mistakes. Human eyes do make mistakes and you have to accept it as long as it is not intentional, and i don’t think any umpire is making intentional mistakes around the world. The players just have to forget about the decision and move on with the game. No one is perfect and everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes umpires are not the only ones to blame; sometimes it is the teams fault. If the team played fair they wouldn’t give away a free kick or penalty. The media is also playing a big role in blaming umpires because the media keeps repeating and showing the mistakes umpires make. Umpires deserve to do their work and feel happy and proud about. How would you feel if someone kept blaming all the mistakes on you, would you like it? As long as umpires are doing their job we should respect and treat them fairly. Sometimes it’s not the umpires that are making the bad decisions. The supporters always blame the umpires for giving away a free or penalty. In an AFL finals game a decision, which was handed down after it was judged Jack Anthony had been held by full-back Ben Rutten, led to the last goal of the day and ended the Crows' year. But when it was brought up in Craig's press conference, he sparked up.

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