Really feel for you Ernie over this one. It's not the first time this has happened, and if FIFA continue to shut their eyes and think it will go away, one day they will be sorry. They make so much money out of the players, yet treat them like #$%%#.
As for the quality of their referees? what quality?? We were very lucky to have had a Japanese ref who did an excellent job in our last game. Yet the Guatamalean ref gave a yellow card to one of our guys for taking his shirt off - seconds before game finished  The riot squad crew that FIFA employed to keep things running smoothly stopped one of our players going into the stands to see his parents, and manhandled him. What on earth is going on?

They say that having that modern technology to prove/disprove a goal, etc, will slow down the game. Rubbish. They make a lot of money from ticket sales, and if fans continually see their teams robbed of goals, they will soon disappear, taking their money somewhere else.

I'll do a chart for the game to see if I can find anything there that shows potential for what happened. Germany 6th in rank and England 8th in rank, you'd think it would be a close call normally. Will get back to you soon. Toss out the glass of milk and find yourself a bottle of Glenfiddich pure malt whiskey, it has numbed my wounds many a time. Hugs from downunder . .Marg 

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