For many years it has been the NORM to hear teacher after teacher openly complaining about the level of umpiring meted out to their respective schools during the BSSNL competitions. These concerns have apparently reached boiling point and alledgedly manifested themselves at Waterford this evening ( Nov 3rd).
In what was played ( pun intended) out in front of numerous spectators,the umpires apparently had a field day trying to get their schools of choice by allegiance and other ways, into the semifinals.
If this umpiring( and I say this word loosely) was anything like last night ( Nov 2nd) in the Barbados Workers Union competition, then we are in a state of disrepair. I digress!!
To quote a teacher " I aint know how every year I meeting a certain school all d time and not only dat but the same f****ing teacher? Ammm, I mean umpire ?"
My involvement in schools' netball has taught me this. Some people will do absolutely anything to win and these perpetrators of the sport has somehow weaseled their thought process into the
brains of the innocent.
That bacchanal broke out in the Netball Satdium may be the end result of a torrid season in which I too was almost cussed out by a woman ( I would like to call her another name) who has limited knowledge about the game far less the rules and chose to tell me what I was NOT doing.
When incidences like what alledgedly happened this evening takes place and the people who are put under the microscope are those who know better ( we would think they do) and choose not to do so.........................................
I WILL say this in open honesty. Some of the individuals who umpire in this particular competition CHOOSES not to do what is RIGHT out of AFFILIATION to certain individuals and it shows. Poor people !!
HAHA !! The harshness of this situation took place in 2002 when I entered a team with limited talent but plenty brains in said competition.We were unbeaten in our zone,went to the final four and one of the culprits of today's debacle, brought my team to tears with some crazy interpretations and ridiculous calls.
ALL these years later that nonsense exists.
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