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Originally posted by CyberShy
Portugal - The Netherlands:
15 faults for Portugal (10 yellow cards)
10 faults for The Netherlands (6 yellow cards)
That's way too much cards for the number of faults.
The game wasn't a hard game. The fault of Boulahrouz was pretty hard. Further there weren't much hard faults.
Of course there were some fights etc. but in my opinion that was more a result of the bad leadership of the referee. Of course, 16 yellow and 4 red cards sounds like a rough game. But 25 faults is not much. Most games have more faults.
Portugal - The Netherlands:
15 faults for Portugal (10 yellow cards)
10 faults for The Netherlands (6 yellow cards)
That's way too much cards for the number of faults.
The game wasn't a hard game. The fault of Boulahrouz was pretty hard. Further there weren't much hard faults.
Of course there were some fights etc. but in my opinion that was more a result of the bad leadership of the referee. Of course, 16 yellow and 4 red cards sounds like a rough game. But 25 faults is not much. Most games have more faults.
All cards shown were fully deserved by players sh!tty behavior. Italy-Australia, England-Portugal, Germany-Argentina are exaples of really bad refeering. These are the games where ref's mistakes/biased aproach had decided the outcome of the game in favor of one team over the other. Ivanov clearly didn't preffer one team over the other in Portugal - Netherlands game. His decisions were harsh, but fair. He was just doing his job.
From interview he gave before the WC:
And the players would do well to heed Ivanov's words, as FIFA has issued new directives to referees in relation to cheating on the pitch.
That encompasses shirt-pulling, diving, elbowing and time-wasting that may result in an automatic red card for the perpetrator. Many football purists would scoff at the idea of a straight red card for shirt-pulling, and Ivanov hinted that he was one of them.
"FIFA were very firm, very strict [on the new directives]. You want me to discuss FIFA's decisions before the start of the World Cup? I don't think that's a very good idea," he said with a wink.
"I work for FIFA, so FIFA is the boss. If they say shirt-pulling is a yellow card, so it's a yellow card. It doesn't matter what I think about this. It could be an automatic red card. Yeah, of course that's not very good, but if that's what they say, then this is the law. I know it, the players know it, so we all have to follow these laws."
That encompasses shirt-pulling, diving, elbowing and time-wasting that may result in an automatic red card for the perpetrator. Many football purists would scoff at the idea of a straight red card for shirt-pulling, and Ivanov hinted that he was one of them.
"FIFA were very firm, very strict [on the new directives]. You want me to discuss FIFA's decisions before the start of the World Cup? I don't think that's a very good idea," he said with a wink.
"I work for FIFA, so FIFA is the boss. If they say shirt-pulling is a yellow card, so it's a yellow card. It doesn't matter what I think about this. It could be an automatic red card. Yeah, of course that's not very good, but if that's what they say, then this is the law. I know it, the players know it, so we all have to follow these laws."
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