Fifa is to blame for last night’s circus

Mon, June 26th 2006

The problem, in essence, is this. Fifa has encouraged referees to brandish yellow cards whenever possible at this World Cup but refuses either to have a post-match court of appeal where poor decisions can be overturned or retrospective punishments handed out

The result is a cheat’s charter.

From: The Guardian

 

Listed in: Competitions, World Cup

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so ..what did you think of the italy AUS game??? was it a fair cal lfor the penalty kick??

Canada .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) at 11:12 PM on Monday, June 26, 2006

I think if I was Italian, and the referee hadn’t given it, I’d have been outraged. 

Admittedly the attacker went down easily, but it was a poor challenge and it is not up to the striker to get out of the his way.

United Kingdom .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) at 8:13 AM on Tuesday, June 27, 2006

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