"It has been a blast and beginning Friday, it gets so nasty and intense. I can already sense it.
By most accounts, the 2006 World Cup has lived up to most of the hype. As Germany promised "a time to make friends" - and that sort of slogan is often just another marketing genius making $10,000 an hour for being "creative" - the hosts have delivered.
Graham Poll, the English Premiership's best ref, gave out three yellow cards to Croatia's Josip Simunic before realizing that two is the max. What were Poll's assistants, especially the fourth official, doing? Why do the refs wear an earpiece? Poll is back home, presumably enrolled in a first-grade summer school arithmetic class....
These are but a few snapshots of games I have attended. They are far too numerous. Of course, there has been a lot of good refereeing. But when you talk World Cup finals, it all has to be outstanding. Why? Because the universe is watching. Every aspiring referee is hoping to learn from what they are seeing but the pictures coming through are not very clear."
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