16 yellow cards and 4 reds in one match??? Has the standard of reffing at the world cup slipped ?

Question

+ other weird reffing mistakes including (I regret to say) that clanger of a mistake by Grahm Poll (Twit!)...3 yellow cards for one man!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

well refree had to stop somewhere coz otherwise there wud have been very few players available to play in quarters for pourtugal, i believe refree was doing his job , the manner in which both teams were playing was inappropriate.

Answer 2

If player gets yellow card in match 1 and then he gets yellow card in match 2 he don't get red card but he can't play next game. This rule can be different from league to league, it can be that 3 yellow cards are required for one match ban. But in World Cup it's 2.

Answer 3

This type of refereeing is a disgrace to football, but so is the stupid diving and faking injuries. I believe FIFA should have at least one more on the field official to work the pitch, maybe even two more!
On the spanish network, some of the commentators actually grade the officials during the game. Does FIFA think along the same lines?
Like Eric Cantona says,"do it for the love of the game!", the officiating may be killing it.

Answer 4

Notice that the matches on the following day had far fewer yellow cards. I think FIFA realizes that it pushed it's ref too far in one direction. They were trying to crack down on shirt pulling and other infractions, but it hasn't worked. Instead, the yellow cards have become the story. Refs should issue MORE fouls, but less yellow cards. The refs need to give warnings to the players before they give yellow cards. The red card to Maestroni in the US match was uncalled for. (DeRossi did deserve his, but the ref was trying to make up for it.) The red card to Materazzi was uncalled for. Many of the fouls in the Netherlands-Portugal game were unwarranted. But, it's not the standard that's slipped. It was that FIFA cracked down too hard and the refs had too much pressure from up top.

Answer 5

In the Netherlands-Portugal match the referee lost control of the game on a single fault, when Cristiano Ronaldo received that red-card-deserving fault and the referee didn't showed the red one.

The Portuguese then had that thought of "they took out our best striker on purpose" and wanted revenge, making the game harder and harder until it got to that point.

If the referee is a good one, things like that won't happen, if he loses control, it's lost and he will only make more mistakes.

Answer 6

The bad reffing has been the highlight so far lol it makes me laugh honestly they are supposed to be the best I could be a better ref than a lot of them.

Answer 7

I think it proves that the standard of refereeing is at 100% excellent. As they are all following the rules exactly. It is FIFA who are to blame with all their stupid rules it will get to the stage where you can't even tackle people soon or go near the other team

Answer 8

Referees do make mistakes, but can you name one player who has played a perfect match with absolutely no mistakes?

Anyway, to answer your question, I don't think it's the quality of refereeing that's slipped, I think it's the quality of playing. The players aren't trying to use skill to win, they are trying to use trickery and brute force.

Answer 9

he shud of sent the whole Portugal team off then we could be playin the mascots insted, oh wot a game!!!!

Answer 10

YES!!! did u watch aussie last night(im aussie) it was fraud calling that penalty. we were in with a chance but that a-hole called a stupid penalty.
i cried!
i love socca but not that GAY ref!