Having starred in the scandal of the week in the match between Colón and Newell’s with allegations of insulting Colon’s players included, Javier Collado is thinking of his retirement from arbitration.
Collado did not show up to work on Wednesday and his colleagues and friends say Javier is depressed after the controversy over the ‘Pirulo’ Rivarola’s statements Rivarola claiming the referee insulted Colon’s players.
The referee born in Tucuman, but living in Cordoba, also had problems when he told Total Sport magazine that in a match he led, one of his assistants was ‘fixed’, but he gave no further details. In the same interview he said that in two games that he took part in, the players were doing awfully with the purpose of getting their own coach sacked. Allegedly, those teams were Independiente when it was managed by ‘Pepe’ Santoro, and Colon when its coach was Julio Cesar Falcioni.
What’s that I hear? Why it’s the sounds of millions of futbol fans celebrating, isn’t it?
Newell’s may have won 3 out of the 4 matches that Collado has handled during the Apertura, but I cringe every time I see him on our schedule.