[darkside321]

Well i do agree that the referees did a horrible “overall” job during this tournament.
But this happens.
And it hits all teams sometimes.
Sometimes you have luck sometimes you don´t have it.
But isn´t it even more fun to still win even you had no
luck with the calls?
The good teams usually will prevail even they will get their
“fair” share of bad calls too.
This is soccer.

[Lakeshark]

You may say, "it's soccer", but it really isn't at all. It's the inability of the soccer officials to reign in some deep problems in their system.

All sports world wide have made huge progressions in their reffing systems, soccer is the only one left (that I know of) that allows the refs to win or lose the game rather than the players themselves.

Sorry, it's not right, it's downright disgraceful they haven't dealt with this same issue in decades.