"Jack, thank you."

At the end of the game, the French team left to celebrate, and the frustrated Spanish team, Jack was supposed to leave the game. But Zidane came to Jack and gave him a simple hug.

"Congratulations."

Jack said this, and then said very directly, "You don't have to thank me. I was just a referee and I did what I had to do and didn't take care of the French team during the game. And I'm not a fan of the French team, on the contrary, I admire the Spanish team more. ”

Love me, love my dog.

This applies all the time. Jack is a British-Chinese, and as a referee who grew up in the UK, if he chooses, he definitely hopes that England will win the World Cup.

Of course, if the Chinese team can also enter the World Cup, Jack will also be happy.

And if there is another team, it will definitely be the Spanish team. Because Jack has received the greatest support and support from Villar in his refereeing career, especially after entering international football.

Jack has been able to get to where he is now, to be able to have his current position in the international refereeing community, and Villar's support is the greatest. Regardless of what Villar's purpose is to support Jack, Jack is appreciative.

Also because of Villar's relationship, Jack also very much hopes that the Spanish team can have a good result.

As for the French team.

Not a dime to do with Jack.

"So I'm even more grateful to you."

Hearing Jack's words, Zidane did not do anything, but was even happier. smiled and said, "Jack, not now." Wait until this World Cup is over. I invite you to have a drink. ”

"It's also a great honor to be able to have a drink with Qi Zu."

Everyone is just polite.

So after the two men said two words. Immediately it is separated. Avoiding Zidane, who had just taken two steps, Puyol stopped Jack from continuing his complaint. He always thought that the last goal was a mistake by Jack.

Jack shook his head.

I'd love to get out of here right away. But Jack explained: "Calles, I know that the Spanish team lost and you are in a bad mood. But I can assure you that the goal was not offside at all. You're not very calm right now, don't be too impulsive. You can go back and watch the footage. I'm 100 per cent confident that the ball wasn't offside. If it really was my misjudgment, I am willing to apologize publicly. ”

With that, Jack left the spot and walked towards the referee's lounge.

Puyol had wanted to keep up. But Casillas in the back pulled Puyol. Then he shook his head at Puyol. What's the use of the past now, the game is lost.

"Mark, Brett, everyone's done a great job."

"You're working hard, too."

As soon as Jack entered, he briefly celebrated with his referee. There was no controversy in celebrating the smooth running of the game today. If we talk about controversy, it is the last offside problem.

This is nothing.

Because Jack is confident, it's a good shot. It's a bit controversial, but anyone who looks at the footage will praise the correctness of their decision. The important thing is that the game was very fluid, with Jack only taking out three yellow cards in the whole game.

Compared to another strong conversation. The Netherlands and Portugal were all over the place, and it was a very fluid and clean game. Such a strong dialogue, heavyweight confrontation, turned out to be that there were not too many red cards and yellow cards. It's already very good.

So a few people are celebrating.

"Jack, the game was perfect. If I rate you, ten is not much. Twelve points should be given to you. ”

Atkinson patted Jack on the shoulder with great pleasure and said, "Jack." In this game, Beckenbauer and Villar sat on it. I guess you're on their shortlist. Today's game was very good, maybe we will take advantage of you to go to the World Cup final. ”

Atkinson was the fourth referee for the game. I saw Beckenbauer and Villar on the air.

Atkinson is also a veteran referee.

I already estimated why they came here. So Atkinson is very excited right now. He has officiated World Cup matches, World Cup knockout rounds, World Cup dialogues, and World Cup finals.

These have completely different meanings for referees.

Not only the referee, but also the rest of the referee team. After all, in the future, their resumes can be written that they were once a so-and-so referee in the World Cup final.

"I hope so."

By this time, Jack was also hiding his thoughts.

Because this is already the penultimate game of the eighth-knockout round. There are only eight games left in the World Cup. The time is getting closer, and the time has come to think about it.

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"No mistakes referee!"

"The King of Data!"

"The best referee in European football!"

"Three yellow cards = a smooth and strong conversation!"

With the backing of certain other forces, referees can make headlines in the media, if not for major mistakes. After the match between France and Spain, Jack's name frequently appeared in major media.

Including Jack's stats in the Premier League.

Especially after Jack came to the Premier League for so many years, he only made four mistakes about offside decisions. Jack's top-flight games have been around 200 games if you add up to the Premier League, League Cup, FA Cup, Champions League, and League Cup.

But in so many games, Jack missed a total of four offside decisions.

Of course, these four times are all because of Jack's face for his assistant referee. And it wasn't a major offside situation, so Jack acquiesced. But it's just four mistakes.

It still stunned the refereeing community, even the fans.

In terms of hard data, Jack's penalty is almost 99 percent accurate. It can be said that he is the true king of data in the refereeing world. Even Corina, the world No. 1 referee who has just retired, does not have such good statistics.

Sure enough, it's very good-looking.

Football isn't statistically telling, though. After all, data is just hard. Look at Mourinho led Chelsea to various trophies back then, but some games were ugly and were completely suppressed in terms of statistics.

But what is the result?

The result was a Chelsea sweep of English football. There is not a single team in English football that is currently an opponent of Chelsea.

It can be seen that the data does not explain all football phenomena.

But no one disputes that data is important in football. This time Jack's stats came out, and that's it. Almost blinding data. Even many people began to wonder if this was fabricated data.

How can a referee's stats be so good?

Just like Jack since his debut. In particular, he has awarded more than 1,000 corners since becoming the referee. But out of so many corners, Jack missed just twice.

Mistakes in the offside position are also in the single digits. And some other heavyweight decisions, including how many times the ball went into the goal, such controversial decisions, Jack has not made a mistake so far.

I don't know about such data, but after I knew it, everyone was shocked.

"You're talking about Jack. Referee Lee? Yes, I complained about the offside decision a few times during the game and thought it was wrong. At that time, Jack. Referee Li told me directly. If he misses the penalty, he will choose to withdraw from the tournament and withdraw from this World Cup. Even never to enforce international competitions again. I've never seen such a confident referee. ”

When Zidane was interviewed, he was very funny about Jack.

Because Zidane has never seen such a personalized referee and such a confident referee for so many years. So he concluded: "Later, after the game, I watched it again. I just want to see if such a bullish referee really didn't make a single mistake. I really wanted to find a penalty for his mistakes. But it was unexpected. I didn't even find it. It's young, but it's powerful. One of the strongest judges I've ever seen. ”

Zidane spoke highly of Jack.

After reading these newspapers, Jack was relieved. Because Jack has some understanding. These newspapers are reporting on Jack, and there must be an external force, and it is absolutely impossible that it is because Jack is a star referee.

Of course, Jack qualifies as a star referee.

The youngest international referee in history. The youngest World Cup referee in history. And with such data, with such performance. It was supposed to be a star referee.

But star referees are still referees after all, and it is impossible to have much popularity in the football world.

To be able to make so many media outlets tout Jack at once. There's definitely someone behind it. There are a few people who can help Jack like this at this time, and the first thing that comes to Jack's mind is Villar.

After all, Jack is underqualified and young.

If you want to let Jack officiate the World Cup final directly, there will definitely be a lot of rumors, and there will be a lot of resistance. Many people in the refereeing community will not be convinced. Although Villar is the boss of the FIFA referee committee, it is impossible for him to really go his own way and ignore the voice of the refereeing community. Blowing the wind like this now is building momentum for Jack. It wasn't until the media hyped it up that Villar was ready to act.

Jack thought of this in an instant.

Knowing that Villar already had plans to officiate himself in the World Cup final, Jack was overjoyed.

World Cup finals.

This thing must not fly away. In the quarter-finals or semi-finals, Jack will definitely have to officiate one more game. It was Jack's last exam, and if Jack made a mistake in the middle of the game, then the opportunity would have flown up. Of course, if he performs well, Jack's World Cup final referee will definitely be a certainty.

Jack was excited and a little nervous.

World Cup finals.

For a referee, to be able to officiate the World Cup final is the highest honor. Corina has so much fame, but the game that finally brought him to the top was the South Korea and Japan World Cup final.

After that World Cup final, he completely suppressed Frisker and Merck and became the world's No. 1 referee. Because he was a referee for the World Cup final. (To be continued......)