The most impressive scene of this more than two and a half hour referee documentation with all its whistles, goals, slide tackles and quick cuts takes place in a school gym. In the background a basketball hoop and a wall bars, in the foreground the director has set up two gymnastics boxes. The referees Sascha Stegemann and Robert Hartmann are sitting on it, they should comment on the most prominent wrong decision of the past season. A scene in the penalty area in the game between Bochum and Dortmund, BVB were fighting for the German championship. Clear foul, actually, penalty kick for Dortmund, but neither Stegemann, the referee, nor Hartmann, the video referee, saw it.
New ARD documentary about referees in the Bundesliga: “It’s brutal” – media
