The technical director has scored a goal against India and in favour of his ocuntry by punishing Shivendra for no fault of his. This is blatant bias that Europeans and Australians share routinely against Asians. When the aggrieved party (Pakistan) did not protest and the referee who was standing yards away did not even give a foul, who is this racist to intervene and punish Shivendra? India should win the match against Australia. That will be a tight slap on the face of racists like this sinister Australian "technical director".
I fully agree with the views expressed ,I have seen the clips of incident .You do not even need to be an expert to differentiate between a DELIBERATE HITTING and an unintentional one .The clips are very clear ,what you need to call it a DELIBERATE one your own self interest. THIS IS NOTHING BUT BLATANT MISUSE OF AUTHORITY VESTED IN DIRECTOR FOR CONDUCTINF free and fair tournament KUSHAGR KHULLAR
a very harsh decision ... i saw the video of it , no where it was done intentionally , i think why australians and english are given the respite for it...it is decrimination , we should take a stronger decision to stop this .... this is not happenning good with us , we should oppose the decision of authorities ...
its pretty sad that the technical director is from australia and that india have to play australia today. also, australia has lost its first match and are in bad shape.... so to make sure india cannot win , this official has made sure he levelled a false allegation against one of our better players and made him sit on the bench for the next 2 matches. indians are always at the recieving end of stupid decisions in hockey for the last 2 decades and since we dont have the guts to tell white-skins to just MIND THIER OWN BUSINESS and to F-O.
this is plain mean-mindedness on the part of a racially-biased official.
its different in cricket since BCCI is a very rich organsiation and the call the shots in the ICC.
best regds to our players for the match with australia today.
V. Anto coimbatore district hockey association. COIMBATORE, TAMIL NADU, INDIA.
Australia have already fired the first salvo reducing India's strength..This is sickening!! India should respond by playing with much more aggression in the next match..The height of Indian bureaucracy bungling is to label the match as a 'Friendship' Match. The Aussies must be rolling over in laughter on this stupid move despite the stab in the back by their main stooge Ken Read.
