FIFA World Cup 2010

[potatobroth]

thats four or five AWFUL calls regarding goals. considering the hardest thing to do in this damn tournament/match is score a goal, having them disallowed (or allowed wrongly) is a MASSIVE problem.

consider this: the USA scored 5 goals in their four games at the World Cup. They also scored 2 more that were disallowed. Thats an increase of 40%. As it turned out, those goals didn't matter, but they sure as shit mattered for Mexico, England, etc.

I was watching the ARG v MEX game live. When that goal went in, my eyes naturally drifted to the side judge, who was running his ass off to get down to the goal box area of the pitch. He wasn't even close and there was no physical way he was in ANY position to adjudges Tevez on or offsides. It was just impossible. Why does Mexico have to suffer that? Even worse, while the stadium replay is running the goal over and over, the referee asks his sidejudge what his call was. I can only imagine what he said was, "i didnt see him as offsides." because he was about 10 or 12 yards away from the play. Prediction: "We think the officiating of the game was fine." They can fuck themselves. (oh, and I'm 100% gunning for ARG - but not at the expense of just shit calls.)

FIFA is failing. The (at least the ones the US hear) announcers were ripping the officiating. The media is shredding the officiating. Teams are dismissing the officiating. Players are lambasting the officiating. FIFA just turns away.