[dfwgator]

It certainly gives the haters a lot of fodder. This tournament is setting soccer back 10 years.

[jjbrouwer]

I don't agree with that at all, although I wish people would one day learn to call the game football.

Apart from the appalling refereeing decisions, the matches have been very exciting.

[FostersExport]

I still say introduce retrospective suspensions based on video evidence for diving.

FIFA won't have any of it though. Their solution to everything is to increase the pressure on the refs to get it right. As we've seen, relying on refs to get things right is a rather dubious strategy.

[wolf78]

It certainly gives the haters a lot of fodder. This tournament is setting soccer back 10 years.

Agreed. The later the tournament, the more the refs suck. However, that last foul was an almost impossible call for the referee. Agreed, it was a minor foul and it was provoked, but on the other hand it prevented a more or less clear shot on the goal. Just damn. Both the foul and the PK were totally unnecessary.