And yet more shenanigans in Brazil...

Well, well, well, well, well...

That was a fine kettle of fish, wasn't it?

Netherlands go through, 2-1, on two goals in seven of the last minutes of the match.

It's the second goal, and two other calls NOT made in the match, all involving the Dutch's Arjen Robben, that I want to talk about here.

Here, from "Goooooooal" and their Vine account, was the first one...

Robben, coming off the goal line in the box, carries the ball forward, and goes down over the foot of a Mexican player to appear to draw the game-winning penalty.

So why do I think this is a bullshit situation to rid the tournament of very-pesky Mexico?

First, from the first half, a better penalty claim for Mexico when a guy gets kicked in the head in the box...

Now, I'm going to show you two other penalties Robben, by that standard, suffered in the match.

1) Stoppage time, first half.  Robben in the box, appears to beat one Mexican player, and is chopped down by Hector Moreno.

I'll give you a link on that one for now, but it's a clear video from ESPN.

If the penalty at the end of the match was a penalty, not only is this one a penalty as well, but Mexico should've played the balance of the match with ten men.  Moreno should've been sent off for this foul for Denial of a Goal-Scoring Opportunity.

(He was injured and substituted.)

So, not only is Moreno not sent off or penalized, no call is made on the play at all.  And yet, chips down on the table, you call that ticky-tack penalty?

2) Can't find a video on this one at the time I'm posting this, but Robben went down in the box again in the second half after playing a ball.

In this case, the Mexican did get to the ball, but Robben went down afterward as it appeared the Mexican left his foot out there -- far more obviously than the one the official finally did call in stoppage time.

When even Klinsmann, the USA coach who used to coach Germany, is saying the heavyweights are getting benefits, you know something is wrong...