So tonight was the game between the top two women's national sides in the world: United States vs. Germany.
Shame FIFA and the referee had to rig the match for the host's neighbors to get the Women's World Cup Grand Final.
Basically, the only clip you need to see to regard this is this blatant "screwup" on the part of the official. (Not sure how to get that properly saved and embedded, so I'll link to it.)
Alexandra Popp capitalizes on a Julie Johnston screw up and should be one against the goalie...
... until Johnston pulls her down.
The penalty IS called, but missed -- but Johnston only receives a yellow card for one of the most blatant Denials of a Goalscoring Opportunity you could muster!
United States should've been one down for the rest of the match.
Seven minutes later, as you can see on the Screamer video in the article here, Alex Morgan is pulled down where the article-writer believes was just outside the box, but the German who knocked her down WAS in the box.
Penalty awarded and converted, 1-0 USA -- USA wins 2-0.
There have been several stories about this Women's World Cup that have bordered on suspicious -- but that decision not to red-card Johnston had to be one of the worst.
If not "Hand of God" level from Maradona in the men's World Cup, certainly up there, at least for it's magnitude in the match and the level of the match thereof.
So forgive me if I'm not waving the flag tonight. The US Women's National Team may or may not have won with ten against Germany, but there's no way they should've won the way they did.
No chance in Hell. This smells of a problem.
This smells of a rig-job.
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