In last night's Chinese Super League, one of the highlights was Harbour's 3-1 home win over Henan, and the referee's team blew away Harbour's four goals, which became a topic of conversation.
You know, this is the home of the harbor, which was unthinkable in the past. Judging from the four goals, if Wu Lei's single goal is more obvious offside, then at least Wang Shenchao's goal, the ball has experienced refraction, and I feel that this goal is controversial. Blowing away four goals from the home side at Harbour almost resulted in Harbour not winning the game, which required considerable guts and courage for the refereeing staff.
Moreover, the paradox is that the referee of this game is Zhang Lei. Zhang Lei was once recognized by fans as a pro-harbor referee, and there have been many cases of blowing penalties in the game that were obviously biased in favor of the harbor, the most famous is in the 2020 season, the game between the harbor and Qingdao Huanghai, Zhang Lei because of the many penalties obviously in favor of the harbor, annoyed the then Huanghai coach Wu Jingui, Wu Jingui shouted at Zhang Lei on the sidelines, let him touch his conscience, which has also become a classic scene in the Chinese Super League.
Last season, the key battle for the Chinese Super League championship, Guoan vs. Harbour, was also enforced by Zhang Lei, and as a result, there were many penalties in favor of Harbour, which sparked heated discussions on the Internet. Some media people commented that every time they encountered a key game against the harbor in recent years, Zhang Lei was the referee, is it a coincidence?
Obviously, this is not a coincidence, Zhang Lei is more like an official whistle, blowing punishments with tasks, and naturally there is no fairness and justice. Judging from the file of Yu Hongchen, the former vice chairman of the Football Association who has just been sentenced, there is indeed an official whistle within the Football Association, and Yu Hongchen once arranged five referees to enforce the law in the 2016 season, in order to help a Chinese Super League team relegation.
But now the Football Association has changed, no longer Chen Xuyuan, who has a strong harbor complex, is not Gao Hongbo, who has coached the harbor, is in charge of the league, in this case, Zhang Lei is no longer a pro-harbor referee, but is eager to get rid of the suspicion of his harbor whistle, this game, dare to blow off the home team's four goals, indicating that he has drawn a line between him and the harbor.
In fact, without Chen Xuyuan and Gao Hongbo, after the reorganization of the Football Association, this season Harbour obviously began to suffer in referees. In the last round of the harbor draw with Zhejiang, the referee Mai Maitijiang's several blows caused great dissatisfaction on the harbor side, especially the goal was blown up, which caused a big controversy on the Internet. It's just that the Harbour has benefited more from the referees in the past, so the fans have not discussed it enthusiastically, and combined with the four goals that were blown off at home in this game, the trend is becoming more and more obvious: the referees are afraid that they will scramble to draw a line with the Harbour, otherwise they will not have a clear relationship with the former Football Association, who does not think about their future?
In addition to Zhang Lei, another referee in the Chinese Super League who has been labeled as a port is the golden whistle Ma Ning. He became famous in the first battle because of the punishment of Shenhua three people in the Shanghai derby, and later was considered the patron saint of the harbor, and he favored the harbor many times in the game, which was hugely controversial. Now Ma Ning is still trusted by the new team of the Football Association, and has been appointed as the representative of Chinese referees in the international arena, and has also officiated the Asian Cup final. I don't know if in the Chinese Super League, Ma Ning comes to blow the game of the harbor, how will he stand in line?