Private viewing
December 22, 2009 by dermot · Leave a Comment
I’m more than very happy to have another story in this month’s When Saturday Comes, which is one of the best, if not the best, football periodicals around.
The article is a look at Kill the Referee, a fly-on-the-wall documentary about the refs and reffing at the Euro 2008 football tournament. I saw the doc at the Seville European Film Festival last month, and spoke with its Belgian director Yves Hinant about the work:
“I am not a sports journalist and do not care about football,” Hinant told me. “I make films about real life. For me UEFA was like a huge company and football is like any other work. The referees are ordinary employees who have to follow the rules while under a lot of pressure.”
So the film does not features many goals or pieces of skill, instead focusing on the refs decisions, pressures, controversies, personal rivalries etc. It’s pretty interesting and is a nice antidote to the recent brouhaha about controversial refereeing decisions. I’d tell you even more about Kill the Referee, but really you should buy a copy of the mag to find out.
It’s available from most good newsagents in Ireland and the UK, or indeed online at the wsc.co.uk website shop. Enjoy.
