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In soccer, referee’s judgment is the final judgment. I know referee works hard to run the match successfully. But what if when the referee supports a team, which is strong. Strong in the sense, they have been participating in World Cup finals since long time. Let’s take example of yesterday’s match between Brazil vs. Australia. I know Brazil was 5 time champions. But in yesterday match Australian played comparatively well than Brazil. Unnecessarily fouls were given to Brazil. I have seen when Brazilian was not able to come up with the ball, they just fell down on the field and referee peep the whistle. So, this way referee makes the game a one sided. I don’t know why referee do this. Do they get biases with the name of Brazil? Or felt some sort of pressure from top official? Whatever, if this trends continues, the new team which comes up with new skills and spirit to participate in World Cup Finals. They might think thousands times before participating.

In another match between Italy vs. USA, which was draw (1-1), during the match the Americans were penalised for 24 fouls, 18 in the first half. Italy was punished 13 times in the whole game.

After the match Head coach of the US team Bruce Arena stated that “It’s natural. The powers of the game get a little more respect. One day the US will get some of those calls.”

That was another Example of bad refereeing. Some referees are spoiling the spirit of world cup’2006.