The decision by the UEFA to appoint Stéphanie Frappart as the central referee in UEFA Super Cup match between Europa Champions Chelsea FC and their UCL Champions Liverpool was received skeptically in many quarters by football fans while other were of the opinions that it was a welcome development. The argument center on many reasons like the presence of a female referee may affects players reaction or rather try to intimidate her on some her calls. Some still argue that she might not keep up with pace most off the male games flow. Finally, Stéphanie Frappart has been known as Card Happy as she tries to use card control the players intimidation.
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However, the pictures above was circulating the social media as people tried to catch fun with the images emanating from the match. Frank Lampard assistant Jody Morris was seen viewing towards the official at the line. It may be that he was looking at the pitch from that angle and somebody decided to catch fun here. Me too with @Battleaxe because she is scorum lady. Hahahah
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Going by the opening formalities of the game, Stéphanie and her colleagues looked very confident and friendly. From the flipping of the coin, she drag some seconds to explain team captains which was quit fine with me.
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Her composure was quite okay following the two occasion both captains of the teams were shown the yellow card as they tried to question her decisions but l noticed they players protested with consciousness that she was a lady. Not wanting to press too hard.
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There was a questionable call she made at the finals minutes of the normal game time when she awarded a penalty to Tammy Abraham after Liverpool's keeper Andria was judged to have brought the player down inside the box. Though Stéphanie was 20 yards award and count see a good angle of game but the blame went more when the Video Assistant Referring confirmed the decision. Going by the angle the incident was viewed, it seem they was a minimal contact but doesn't guarantee a penalty.
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Looking at her performance, one can conclude that she hard a good outing and UEFA should consider drafting her into the main competitions like Europa or UCL. However, it is not worthy to note that they are still a lot of areas her linesman or rather put it lineswomen to ensuring that then right throw it call were made to the right team.
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