推 JamesCaesar:掰掰 不會懷念你的 06/01 23:52
推 wei7515:原來只是為了要出書,我還以為poll想要轉型成打切悍將 06/02 00:16
推 lowlydog:珍重 不再見～～ 06/02 03:16
Retirement: at least that’s one decision Poll got right
Matthew Syed - May 31, 2007
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article1862693.ece
Matthew Syed says Graham Poll was a self-obsessed show-off, but do referees
deserve respect from players and fans alike? Give us your thoughts below.
Graham Poll, who has revealed the reasons behind his decision to retire from
refereeing, is a man beyond parody. The preening, pouting “Thing from Tring”
lambasted the FA for failing to back him in a row with Chelsea last year – in
fact, an independent panel fined John Terry ￡10,000 for questioning Poll’s
integrity after his sending-off against Tottenham Hotspur – and went on to
offer the spectacular assertion that the FA’s “failure to act” had let down
“the 27,000 men, women and boys who go out to referee each week and who need
protection”.
格拉漢姆‧波爾最近披露了他結束裁判生涯的內因﹐他真是個無法再現的神話。這位喜歡一
邊以手掠過額發﹐一邊噘著嘴把Thing念成Tring的先生抨擊FA,認為去年他遭受切爾西攻擊
的時候﹐FA沒有提供給他足夠的支持──事實上﹐由於蔣‧特裡質疑當時他給出的第二張黃
牌（對熱刺﹐波爾將特裡兩黃罰下﹐對於第二張黃牌他不同時間給了兩個不同的解釋）﹐FA
設立了獨立審查團並對特裡開出了一萬英鎊的罰單──並且進一步斷言說,FA的"不作為"辜
負了"2萬7千名每周都要出門執法比賽﹐需要保護的男人﹐女人和小孩"。
How somebody so narcissistic managed to drag himself away from the
dressing-room mirror often enough to forge a career as an official is a
question for another time. In the meantime, it is worth noting that within
hours of Poll delivering his supposedly selfless “revelations”, his agent was
issuing a press release hailing the forthcoming publication of an autobiography
described as “shocking” and “often unbelievable”. And that’s just the
accompanying photograph.
這樣一隻小天鵝竟然可以如此頻繁的從他的穿衣鏡前走開﹐去履行身為一名球証的職責﹐他
是怎麼做到的﹖當然﹐這不是本文的重點。另一方面﹐在波爾先生無私的進行真相大"披露
"之後才幾個鐘頭﹐他的經紀人就宣布﹐他據說"震撼人心"和"往往令人難以置信"的自傳即
將發行──所以我們有理由揣測波爾先生的無私行為隻不過是前期炒作而已。
Poll is arguably the worst referee of recent times, not because of the
decisions he made on the pitch (although many were awful) but because of the
way he went about them. He was, in my opinion, football’s answer to the
show-off who shouts on his mobile phone in a packed commuter carriage. He was
the bar bore who confused self-congratulation with conversation. He was the
grown-up infant who never learnt to reconcile the id and the ego. In short, he
was the wrong sort of chap to let loose on a football pitch with a whistle and
cards.
Allow me to digress to tell you about Jack Randall, a short, bald intellectual
who passed away five years ago and who looked as if he had emerged fully formed
from the pages of a Graham Greene novel. His nose was never far from a book,
his mind never far from the philosophy of Kant. He spent his spare time
travelling the length and breadth of the country umpiring table tennis matches:
unpaid, unassuming and generally unheeded.
He was the most brilliant umpire I ever met, not simply because of the lucidity
of his judgment but because of his pursuit of anonymity. He comprehended and
embraced the crushing paradox at the heart of refereeing: you have power over
the people who really matter. When he intervened to call a fault he did so
reluctantly, aware that he was intruding upon the spectacle that people had
come to watch.
Poll was the polar opposite. He appeared to have insufficient maturity to give
extended thought to the manifold subtleties involved in standing in judgment
over one’s fellow man. He seemed too self-obsessed to come to terms with the
fact that his lot in life was that of a man who gets an opportunity to tread
the boards alongside the matinee idols, but who is never allowed to sing. And
so he did the next best thing: he tried to steal their notes.
It is an approach he is taking with him into retirement. In his shameless
attempt to grab the media spotlight, he has trampled on many of those who
protected him when he was at his most vulnerable. Brian Barwick, the chief
executive of the FA, the most conspicuous target of his vitriol, phoned Poll to
offer encouragement after the World Cup fiasco when he issued three yellow
cards to Josip Simunic. Barwick even took the risk of going public with his
endorsement.
Poll’s pronouncements yesterday demonstrate gracelessness, ingratitude and
vanity in equal measure. In one interview he talks about how he “went to the
centre circle in Stuttgart after the match [in which he issued three yellow
cards to Simunic] to say goodbye, because I almost felt I wouldn’t have a
choice in whether I was going to stay or not”. This compulsion to muscle in on
somebody else’s glory was also evident after the Coca-Cola Championship
play-offs finals at Wembley on Monday, when he went to the centre circle to
hold his arms aloft, punch the air and wave to the crowd.
Poll’s personal tragedy is that he is oblivious to the fact that nobody was
waving back.
Black marks
June 8 2002, Kashima
Italy 1 Croatia 2, World Cup finals, group G
Gives 42 fouls, disallows two goals. “Those weren’t division one or division
two officials,” Christian Vieri, the Italy striker, fumes. “They were village
officials.”
April 14 2003, Old Trafford
Arsenal 1 Sheffield United 0
FA Cup semi-final
Inadvertently runs into and blocks path of Michael Tonge, the United midfield
player, allowing Fredrik Ljungberg the freedom to score.
June 13 2006, Frankfurt
South Korea 2 Togo 1
World Cup finals, group G
Sends off Jean-Paul Abalo, of Togo, for second bookable offence. Accidentally
flashes red card before raising second yellow.
June 22 2006, Stuttgart
Croatia 2, Australia 2
World Cup finals, group F
Books Josip Simunic, the Croatia defender, three times before dismissing him.
Subsequently sent home from Germany.
December 27 2006, The Valley
Charlton Athletic 2 Fulham 2
Barclays Premiership
Penalises Djimi Traore for handball instead of Tomasz Radzinski, the offender.
Franck Queudrue scores late equaliser from free kick.
Times上的評論﹐原來打波悍將不是史密斯先生一個...
我隻翻譯了前面兩小段﹐後來就懶下來了...大家就將就看吧（不過句子都有夠長...）
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