“Hey Ref., Send me
off!”
It
wasn’t funny when on Saturday 14th of September 2013 Arsenal
football club and their counterpart Sunderland played, and in the second half
of the match in which the Arsenal are finding it difficult to exert their
superiority and the Sunderland are having a great day, suddenly the referee
took a decision that was not so good and the Sunderland coach, Paolo Di Canio,
lost his temper having being rated very high among the club managers that will
be picking quarrel in the Premier league of England, he was cautioned by the
referee, but the next thing we saw was that he was sent to watch the rest of
the match from the stands, and seriously that affected the result of the match
as Sunderland was beaten three goals to one.
Later in his after match interview
with B.B.C. Paolo Di Canio narrated what happened:
 |
| Di Canio being warned |
“(Martin Atkinson the ref.) came to me and said, ‘If you keep going with your manner I
will send you up to the stands,’ I said to him, ‘If you want to complete a
perfect job, you send me off.’ He took it seriously and sent me off. Next time I will not invite the referee to
send me off.” – Paolo Di Canio manager at Sunderland Football Club was
later quote. I later learnt that that cost him his job in Sunderland!
As
funny as it is, there is a very important lesson which we could learn, which
Paolo Di Canio learned the hard way. Opportunity
to learn abounds, and in this generation we have so many learning materials to
aid and or facilitate the learning process, but to our shame, we learn very
little! The major way many still learn is through trial and error as if their
life is an experiment, but according to my observation, scientist rarely carry
out direct experiment on any human being. But that is what many do to
themselves.
In
Canio’s words, Atkinson warn him of his manners and what the outcome could be,
but he out-rightly reject that and dared the
consequence which he later regret. What manner
is yours that could make you to witness sanctions and or suspension in life?
Preachers do say that any manner or habit
that you did not master will master you. Master here means control, or overpower to rule over. Canio did not
control his temper even when he was fore-warned and the consequence was so
severe. He had to learn from his personal experience, he was the first manager
to be sent off this season!
 |
| Di Canio: Showing his best Manners |
Dear
reader, yours may not be bad temper,
it may be smoking and the referee had been warning you since with: Smokers are LIABLE to die young, but your
response has been not how long, but how
well; my question is: has smoking makes you live well without attracting grave
consequences? Is it your Maker that chooses short life for you or you’re the
one calling the ref. to send you off the
earth field of play?
Yours
is not smoking but fishery; sorry I mean you drink like a fish. Liquor or and
alcohol is a social façade for you. Oh,
maybe you drink to fight depression which leads to more time for therapy and
your kidney is an easy target for related diseases which could be terminal.
Hmm,
yours is womanizing? Yes, I pity you. You never learn from Tiger Woods and know
the price of infidelity, let alone the stark realities of sexually transmitted
disease, most of which could lead to impotency or barrenness and short life.
Well, may be you don’t like or value your life and the next generation after
you as such, then you don’t worth living but if you value your life and love
yourself, you shouldn’t wait till the ref.
through the doctors gives you the verdict.
Yeah, you like clubbing and
partying… it’s the best way to add fun to life, but your talent and abilities
is being laid waste because you don’t want to face life as it is. You say its
spouse you are looking for? How many people do get their spouse from clubbing?
You just waste all your energies that are meant for taking you to the place of
fulfillment and accomplishment on the dance floor or on the road with
accidents.
This last one is a special Manner many people favour yet they hate
to see it in others: LYING. Habitually or incidentally you lie, you cheat, you
forge, or yours is fraud… all are under lying though in degrees. The most
effective and fastest way to loose credibility is to tell lie! Yet it’ll
surprise you the amount of lies that is being told every day, even to the point
of devoting a special day in the world’s calendar to lying… April fool!
Will
you take this as a warning from the inescapable referee, before he starts disbursing the cards and you ultimately
lose the game? There is still opportunity for you to change, yes its NOW!
Your views are most welcome...
No comments:
Post a Comment