At some point in the process, the ref just has to CALL THE FREAKING MATCH

Before we take you back to the burgeoning story of the FIFA arrests, let's look at what can happen in such a corrupt environment.

In the last ten days, top-flight football matches in two nations almost ended in the most embarrassing and humiliating way possible:  The abandonment of a match for sufficient dirty play.

One actually decided a top-league championship.

First, Peru, where someone really has to wonder why Alianza Lima is allowed to play another match after their display on the 16th.

Losing 1-0 at home, Screamer picks up the action in the video accompanying this article on the incident.

Here's how I described the incident in the comments section:

85th minute: 22: Violent Conduct, 6: Abuse of the referee (the referee could’ve well halted the match right here — you DO NOT touch the referee when he’s giving a card. — should NOT have been a yellow.)

22’s probably going to face a significant suspension — in about 30 seconds, I see him commit about four sending-off offenses.

87th minute: Coach comes on the field after being sent from the touchline.

5: I don’t know if he gets the card for the foul or for the delay of game. He could’ve been carded for both. It was his second anyway, and that puts them down to nine. Seeing the replays, I know some refs probably give straight red for that foul.

89th-90th minute: 6 gets sent off for the foul. 10 grabs the referee’s wrist on the card (that’s his red — that’s down to seven, the minimum, under FIFA guidelines, the match can continue). 24 physically shoves the referee. That’s five reds right there, this match is OVER. At least three players in the last four minutes have physically assaulted the official.

At least three players need long bans, and so does this referee. There were four minutes of added time just in the last five. And he deliberately missed a fifth red card to end the match right then and there.

It gets so bad that the referee awards four minutes of extra time, but, given the farcical nature of the match, he blows full-time in two and needs a police escort from the pitch.

Yes, the referee needed a suspension too.  That match should've been terminated three different times (he was physically attacked by two different players, and that he missed at least one red in that would've forced him to stop the match with a team going to six players).

At least the national federation and league didn't take kindly to all of this:

Gabriel Costa: 6 “fechas” (meaning “dates”, I would assume “matches”) for violent conduct. Costa was also fined 100 Nuevo Sol (the currency in Peru).
Marco Meirs: 6 matches for two yellow cards and verbal aggression with the official.
Pablo Miguez: 8 matches for two yellow cards, shoving the referee, and for physically obstructing the arm to serve a card. (He got off easy — if that’s rugby, that’s something in MONTHS - probably 6-12!) Miguez committed two blatant abandonment offenses, according to this report.
Christian Cueva: 6 matches for verbal aggression — it doesn’t say against whom.
Jean Deza: 2 matches for effectively scoffing at the official - call it flagrant dissent.
Miguel Araujo: 2 matches for inciting the public.
The now-resigned coach: Three MONTHS for aggression to the officials.
The team was fined twice, once for the accumulated misconducts (S./ 1925), and again for S./ 385 for another violation. No further forfeitures or points deducted.

Yes, the coach was forced to resign, and most of these penalties are a joke.  Alianza Lima won one of the two matches with six players suspended.

That'd be bad enough, but then we get almost an instant replay in what would be the title-deciding match in Turkey. 

Galatasray won the Turkish championship after Fenerbahce needed to win their match on Sunday and only got a 2-2 draw.

In so doing, Fenerbahce got four players sent off within the span of about 10 minutes, and the referee awarded at least eight minutes of extra time

At 62 minutes, Fenerbahce is down 2-0 on the road to Istanbul Buyukesehir.

By the 74th minute, Fenerbahce has four players on yellow already, and we haven't gotten to the berserk part yet.  Istanbul Buyukesehir has only one.

81st minute, Diego scores to halve the IB advantage.

84th minute, Mehmet Topuz is fouled at the feet, and he stomps, with his heel, the fouler.  He is sent off.

With ten players, Pierre Webo scores to level the match.  One more goal, and Fenerbahce are champions.

Then it goes mad.  After a fifth yellow card at the end of regular time, The referee calls a handball penalty (and a red card in the penalty box, as he deemed it a sufficient opportunity to score) against Bruno Alves.

Caner Erkin is then immediately sent off by the official.  So they're not only down to eight, it's injury time, and they have a penalty against them, which the taker completely sends into orbit for some odd reason.

Now in the SIXTH minute of injury time (and, yes, I can believe it -- the referee has had three red cards and a penalty just in a 10 minute span), Webo is sent off for the worst of the bunch, a straight cleat-shot to the opponent's dome off the direct restart after the penalty.  So Fenerbahce is down to just seven, the minimum allowed.

The goalkeeper is forced to come up to play to try to get the third goal, and Volkan Demirel is carded for what easily could've been the abandonment red card EIGHT minutes into injury time.

So four players are sent off, and, of the seven left on the pitch when the final whistle blows, four are on yellow.

No word on suspensions, but there may be another reason why, in the eyes of many in Turkey:

Galatasray's match, at least according to ESPNFC, was clouded in controversy itself   The goal in their 1-0 win over Genclirbiligi was a clear case, to many, of the keeper keeping himself away from the goal to ensure the result.

Here's a live from-the-match video.  Watch for yourself.