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lamby

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Oct 3, 2011
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End of a quiet news week and a break at work led to us discussing the worst football decisions we had seen. I remember a Chelsea v Leicester cup game back in 97 I think. After a two-game tussle with Leicester - which was about to head for penalties, referee Mike Reed awarded Chelsea a penalty after Erland Johnsen went down under a totally non-existent challenge. Then there was the Stuart Attwell howler at Watford and these

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtIR-HYgKyY


Any really bad ones you can remember?
 
A shocking decision by someone to show a dubious offside call on the big screen at Argentina v Mexico. Everyone saw it wasn't offside and the linesman was suddenly surrounded by a lot of angry players!
 
Similar but not as well remembered as Ghost Goal, is Ghost Goal mk.II. Even more funny that it was against Colin.
[video=youtube;nt7UXPy0vTo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt7UXPy0vTo[/video]
 
[video=youtube;U-8dOjeVC80]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-8dOjeVC80[/video]
 
Here's another belter from Russia.

[video=youtube;7MBcIJDa3ts]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MBcIJDa3ts[/video]
 
To be fair to that ref, by the letter of the law, he's correct.

I also submit this disgrace from 2002.

[video=youtube;xCyrt19s6eo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCyrt19s6eo&feature=related[/video]

If that looks like the "brilliant" South Korea getting away with murder, it is. Especially bad is the stonewall Italian penalty that got a second yellow for diving, and the perfectly good goal Spain had disallowed.

I'll let Didier sum up my feelings:

[video=youtube;FvANmxeiA5Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvANmxeiA5Y[/video]

And another one. How on earth this wasn't a red card, I'll never know.

[video=youtube;GwOq9VRwzho]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwOq9VRwzho[/video]