Fifa president Sepp Blatter has issued an apology to Mexico and England after Sunday’s refereeing mistakes. In a round table discussion he also talked about re-opening the question about using technology to assist referees. The Ifab, with Fifa spearheading it, said a definite no to technology earlier this year.
Neither the Uruguayan nor the Italian referee team were present on the referees third media day on Tuesday, citing personal reasons for their no-show. Both teams are expected to be sent home when Fifa makes their final selection of referees before the quarter-finals.
The mistakes in Sunday’s games were both the responsibility of the assistant referees, a rare sight in this World Cup where the assistant referees have received praise for their standard.
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it’s confirmed…both rosetti and larrionda team with orders to go back home
and busacca too. now, we’ve lost the three best referees.
The list is up. FIFA has made some terrible choices in the past but this list is terrible. Some very good referee’s are staying but I can’t believe some of the names on that list!
this is a funny list! FIFA didn’t select the 12 best referees as in previous tournaments, they simply kicked out the referees who did huge mistakes and busacca (nowbody knows why, not of the so called “Offside” because damon missed an far ).
now, we have al-ghamdi, hester, and undiano on this list. 3 referees who surely wo’nt officiatec any other match in this tournament.
this is not sport, this is politics. very bad!
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