When you see a confident Mexico smash the ball into the crossbar, and almost score twice in the first 5 minutes against Argentina...............
and then a minute later you see Argentina awarded a non goal that was clearly offside, you realise what a farce this world cup has been.
After that, everything that happens is different. The same thing applies in the case of lampards goal not counting.
Teams like Mexico and England, are decent sides... but not strong enough to be able to win in the face of horrific refereeing. As a fan and a lover of world football, I am bitterly disapointed that many matches have been ruined as a spectacle and a contest by a string of shocking refereeing decisions.
The entire tournament has been compromised by this, with several teams lucky to still be in contention, and others unlucky to be on the plane home. It would have been nice to see how many matches would have panned out, without the mindless and atrocious interference from officials.
I guarantee that before this tournament comes to a conclusion there will be more contraversy, and who knows which team shall next be denied their world cup destiny.
We shall never know what the natural destiny of several teams would have been had the officials got things correct, but the sad thing is they were never allowed to find out.
Four years of waiting, qualifying, and expectation all to be ruined in a split second by a substandard referee or linesman that should never have been there.
Until these people are replaced by technology the world cup will remain a joke, and at the end of the day be held aloft by the team who escaped with the least number of travesties by referees.
Perhaps the ludicrous red card of Kaka came at the right time for Brazil, who have now maybe got their dose of bad medicine out of the way early in the tournament.
Spain have enjoyed an armchair ride, and benifited nicely from refereeing errors, so maybe they are due for their bad medicine just when it counts the most. You heard it first here.... so dont be surprised when it comes.
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