What are some examples of other players who have been Sent Off in big matches like this one for such a trivial offense. For someone watching this in the US which at the time saw little world soccer, this was simply an incredible way to Decide such a huge International match.
The match was over as soon as this referee made this decision. And clearly, if this was normal referee action at that time, then Beckham should have known this and then the Organized Crime Gambling corruption pendulum points as much at him as at the the referee.
John
============================================== It is simply incredible that the outcome of a World Cup Finals match, watched worldwide by Billions of people, could be Decided by such a trivial act as that which Beckham commits on this tape.
But even more stunning and suspicious, is the failure of the UK Press to respond to this outrage by an investigation of the Referee in question and Beckham himself, to see if either one or both had been commissioned by Organized Crime Gambling division interests to Fix this match.
With the UK Media controlled by Rupert Murdoch, who by this time was operating a huge Gambling empire, there was likely no way that the UK media was about to focus on the obvious threat to the sport of World Soccer.
John
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I am interested to hear how such a mild tap on the as Beckham gave to Simeone could result in a Red Card. Watching this in the US, which at the time was not seeing a lot of world soccer, I was amazed that the UK press did not attack this referee for ruining this match unnecessarily.
Maybe a yellow, if the Referee is determined to make a point. And if this is really normal in the World soccer theater, then it has to be a Red Card With Substitution. This sort of wreckage of the Sport of an major soccer match by reducing one of the teams to 10 men on what here must be some kind of technicality, must be eradicated from the sport.
One would have expected the world press to have descended on this Referee and Beckham, to ferret out whether this scenario to have Beckham sent off was planned, based on both the Referee and Beckham being under the control of Organized Crime Gambling division elements. How many people can even name this referee right now.
Allowing a Referee to commit a Sent Off Without Substitution in mild situations like this and punish a team by reducing them to 10 men invites bribery corruption into world soccer from Organized Crime Gambling interests. Eradicating this threat to the sport by forcing the referee to at least commit a Sent Off With Substitution should protect the sport from bribes a mockeries of soccer as this match became, 10 men to 11.
John
