Croneman on Niva: Sweden Loss & Emotional Fallout

Many people fear that we are facing a third world war, and judging by the tone, one might think it broke out in Kosovo this week.

Fortunately, it was false alarm-it was only Sweden that lost a World Cup qualifier in football. What doomsday moods! Not to play with.

Don’t you get a little stubborn anyway, not just when someone loses it completely – but when everyone seems to do so, the whole hop of football journalists, and also at the same time? They went to the ceiling, everyone was rosing, and not only that, they were personally offended!

Erik Niva’s studio outbreak at Viaplay in live broadcast after the final signal can be historically. I don’t really know in what way.

My spontaneous reaction: How little ice in my stomach does a football expert on TV really have? Zero?

Are you (still) a football journalist or just a shit -fired football supporter among everyone else?

It sounds a bit cuddly to Have to ask that question (over and over again), but it is justified when the top cover smokes all the world’s path, a knowledgeable, established expert that Erik Niva just collapses and in front of the TV fears that he should start to start in live broadcast.

“I think I can usually see shades in a football match,” he initiates his grief figure about Sweden’s historical case and then he formulates his blackest moment during a long football life (and already there he is a bit out and father – “shades” is not his brand?).

I have to quote all his outbreaks, you have to excuse the length, I still think he summarizes the entire overall journalist corps reaction:

“Today there are no shades, tonight it is just night black, because this is a shameful effort. This is an achievement from a sick team. And to come up with this, with these conditions after this long preparation phase, in terms of this match, the significance of this qualification: ‘Do you mean seriously’? Individual level, it is a collective level, structural level, it is every single player, it is the league captain, it is the entire Swedish top football, in case we should be like that. To perform in this way, in this match after 18 months of preparation, I cannot understand it “

And so the slopes:

“And it is very rare that I sit after a football match and feel that here there is absolutely no room for shade or further analysis. It is just a condemnation, it is just a questioning that I do not know where to go, because this is so lousy that it is difficult to find the right words”.

It may sound a little Tough, also on my side now, but isn’t this a type of fanaticism that today unfortunately spreads on all levels of society? Extreme events, extreme opinions, extreme measures.

It is clear that the Swedish football team deserves criticism, and certainly it is good if experts and chronicles can put words into what many people feel – but take you through Erik Niva’s bunch again: you can not conclude that this evening it was something that definitely died. In Swedish football. Within Erik Niva. In Sweden, as a nation.

How small, narrow and short perspective on life and the world and football is it really allowed to be held in public?

I get scared, seriously.

I will ask to swipe to it myself too: The Swedish football journalists have collectively had a horn in the side of the federation captain Jon Dahl Tomasson ever since day 1. Sure he has received some, very versed, criticism for his game idea – but now damn it was the plug out. Contempt, even hatred. Nearly anyway.