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By: The Shouting/ A Look Back At The Tournament That Was | World Football Columns

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:29:05 +0000

[...] one shortcoming in this tournament: FIFA’s refusal to grow with the times and patch up the shabby officiating and the holes in the rule book. None of the officiating errors were the ultimate cause in any [...]

By: mpalazzotto

mpalazzotto — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:29:05 +0000

That is true enough but we are not players. As spectators, we're allowed to second guess referees, managers, players, executives, pundits and each other. It's called fun.

By: ahmed umair

ahmed umair — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:14:03 +0000

it doesn't matter. once a decision is called, it is called. right or wrong is for the referee to decide, not the players. i'm not sepp blatter of michel platini. please don't hate me.

By: Matt Dalton

Matt Dalton — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:16:35 +0000

For me, it has to be Larriola and his officials. This is not because I am a bitter England fan, Germany fully deserved to go through and were the much better team. I don't think the goal would have changed the outcome that much, but that shouldn't mean he gets away with one of the most shocking performances I have ever seen from a referee.

It wasn't just the "goal" that was the problem though. Early on in the first half, a German defender headed (at least I think it was a header – I was a little intoxicated, even by then) the ball back towards his own goal. Rooney pounced on the misdirected ball and was all set to go one on one with Manuel Neuer. Odds are, he would have missed – he has hardly covered himself in glory in South Africa. Remarkably, the officials decided he was offside!

The "goal" can be forgiven, although it is very difficult to contemplate exactly what they "saw". The offside decision was really just ridiculous. When the officials in such an important match don't even know the offside rule, there are real problems. They should be castrated, then hung, drawn and quartered!

By: mpalazzotto

mpalazzotto — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:51:19 +0000

Maybe I'm biased but a) I'm not a referee and b) no one, possibly not even God, knows what Coulibaly saw in this match. The disallowed goal was just the coup de grace administered to a bullet ridden corpse of an officiating performance!