I'm taking a slight detour again. It's not too bad though because I'm up to June 23rd at this year's World Cup and it's not a particularly inspiring day of football. Yes, I will admit that myself. And I will probably still watch as much as I can.
The matches: Belgium-Tunisia, Germany-Sweden and South Korea-Mexico. It just crossed my mind how interesting it would have been if Belgium were playing Tunisia's North African neighbours, Morocco, considering the riotous celebrations in Brussels after Morocco qualified for Russia. But they're playing Tunisia, not Morocco, so no story there.
Today the referee who awarded the non-existent penalty to Switzerland in their qualifying play-off victory against Northern Ireland admitted he made a mistake. Ovidiu Hategan's decision led to the only goal over the two legs. The "Oops, I messed up, my bad, sorry" does nothing for Northern Ireland. Maybe he's only speaking out to pre-empt any criticism that he didn't make the list of World Cup referees because of that mistake. Ah well, Mr Hategan now you know what it's like to stay at home and miss out on your dream of being at the World Cup because somebody else screwed up. No. Hold on. It's your fault you're not going. No sympathy.
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