Thanks for the explanation. Ref paid off to get him out of circulation.
That’s certainly one way of looking at it (and how I looked at it at the game time). The odds of winning a game playing a man down for that length of time is very low. I was ready to take our lumps, but it seems that FIFA doesn’t want to lose the USA for right now. I just wish these refs were on the up and up. They’re like mafia men in my mind. Just like NFL and NCAA refs.