Refereeing is a terrible, disgrace to the integrity of the game. Backing it with shallow meaningless statements and even worse yet, ignorance, is disgusting. Down right disgusting.
We could not be sure South Africa could get their stadiums built and up to par in time. We didn’t know if transportation and accommodation would be brought up to modern day standard. But we could count on one thing for sure. Refereeing would find some way to tarnish the spectacle.
And it has. Already.
Just ask the Yanks who in the most obvious of ways, have been robbed of sure advancement out of the group stages of the competion.
So what could be more appropriate than printing my column “Did I Really Say That”, from the February edition of Inside Soccer Magazine.
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