Peter Klevius congratulates Ghana for taking a point against English cheaters* - but thinks they deserved all three points.
* UK not only cheats by playing WC football as several separate countries while playing track and field as one (Team GB).
It seems that England benefits from referee bias. Moreover, England also seems to be very lucky in which group they end up in international tournaments etc. favorable decisions. Does it really benefit those who want to be proud of their team?
Harry
Maguire's 2018 WC clumsy cheat must be one of the worst in football
history. After all, he dived inside the penalty area without no one even
close to touch him. And his plan seems to have been that he should have
got in contact with the defender. However, the defender elegantly
avoided him. Harry Maguire is also notorious for using his big frame to
aggressively push down players so to get headers - without referees
reacting. Why? Because he played for England.
Sam Wallace
(Telegraph Sport): There were knife-edge moments for England twice in
the latter stages when Honduran referee Saíd Martínez decided that
breakaway attacks from the African side did not end in fouls by English
players. Both involved the substitute Prince Kwabena Adu. On the first
occasion, Jordan Pickford jumped at him and Martínez decided that the
Ghana man had made the contact as he ran through. If it had been the
other way around, it would have been a red card for Pickford. Then
Martínez decided that Ezri Konsa did not foul Adu as he ran on goal in
the 79th minute, even though it looked very much like there had been
contact from the England defender. But it will not just have been those
decisions that upset Ghana manager Carlos Queiroz. Generally speaking
everything that might have been a split decision went England’s way and a
few more besides.

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