Mr Blue Sky wrote:I'm no conspiricy theorist but the refereeing performance last night almost smacked of Platini having a word in his shell before kick off. Just as Sepp Blatter is documented to have reminded the FIFA voting panel of the English media's role in kicking out two of its members just prior to the 2018 and 2022 round of voting you can imagine Platini getting all the referees together and letting them know how much smoother everything would run without England and its media there poking their nose in every corner. Some of the free kicks and yellow cards awarded were ridiculously inconsistent.
It was certainly an unusual performance by the referee. He made the ref in the opening game look good.
I'm not sure how Cabaye didn't get booked, at the very least, for persistent fouling. They were two or three clearly cynical fouls that nobody would be surprised to receive a red card for the sum total - yet the actual sum total wasn't even a booking.
You look at what the Greek guy was sent off for against Poland and compare it to what France were persistently allowed to get away with and you do have to wonder about - if not conspiracy - at least refereeing consistency
Wasn't too downhearted by England's performance. Apart from getting a bit too deep at times, and the unfixable problem of players with a poor first touch, we nullified the so-called French quality. They were bereft of ideas. The french media can bleat all they want, but their team was too poor to win.
Young was the only real notable disappointment, i felt.