Friday, June 18, 2010

U.S. Soccer Team Screwed By Referee


Clearly the referee blew this call and it has to go down as one of the worst calls in World Cup History.
It couldn't be, that this "referee" comes from Mali, which is 95% Muslim, had a sorid reason why he disallowed the goal, could he? But are there any other reasonable explanations?
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4 comments:

  1. Ordinary JillJune 18, 2010 at 6:51 PM

    It could be simple bribery, along the lines of the score-trading scandal in Olympic figure skating several years ago. Maybe a wealthy British soccer fan wants to make sure their team (which also has two ties) advances out of the pool. Maybe the referee was short on sleep and hallucinated something.

    Officials in all sports sometimes make monumental blunders. I didn't see you assuming malice or prejudice when that baseball umpire ruined a perfect game recently.

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  2. DanJune 18, 2010 at 11:34 PM

    With the umpire, he admitted he screwed up and yes, i did accuse him of not trying to hard.
    I didn't consider bribary and if you look at the ref, he didn't act until the ball was almost inside the goal. It was like he was watching a different game.
    This call wall was so bad that it's pathetic. It was the Slovanians who were following and that is what makes this call even more outrageous.

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  3. DanJune 19, 2010 at 2:28 AM

    should take away call and the Slovians who were fouling.
    Darn posting at 11:34PM.

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  4. Ordinary JillJune 19, 2010 at 7:08 AM

    Germany also lost a game thanks largely to a terrible call by a different (Spanish) ref:
    http://msn.foxsports.com/foxsoccer/worldcup/story/World-Cup-Day-8-highlighted-by-referee-blunders

    It's frustrating for everyone involved, but I doubt that the religion of the referees has anything to do with it.

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