Football is an imperfect game in which everyone tries to do their best, but sometimes it happens that they can't
.I remember a short speech given by Mr [Giovanni] Trapattoni while he was the coach of Fiorentina, three or four years ago, after a big, big mistake made by his goalkeeper
. He said, "If a player cannot commit a mistake on the field we can stop the game and go away." And I think it has to be the same for the referee, too
. He says his own mistakes upset him, 'but if I'm sure that I did all to prepare for the match as best I could, I have to accept it'
.He regards television as 'an unequal instrument' when it comes to calibrating mistakes
.'It's too easy to find an angle of vision different from my angle of vision that could show clearly that something happened in a different way from the way I judged
It is too easy for television and this is the reason why it seems that in football nowadays there are many more mistakes than there were 15 years agoThen there were only three cameras in the middle of the field
covering the whole playing area. Now there are 16. Maybe at the next World Cup there will be 20