>Did you watch the match or just the summary? It was not just one penalty that's all about. It was not clearly "mistakes". Blatter is on the scene again, can't you see it.

Do you really think that Blatter has the referees in the pocket?

>Ah yes Switzerland "won" against Turkey:) There was another penalty that's not committed there too. Referee didn't "mistakenly" see the blocking hand in the box that everybody else did!
>After 2nd match, incidents might be awfull, but what was really awfull was Blatter's act on the following morning and saying Turkish team must be punished heavily. And they did as it has never been seen in FIFA's history. Execution without trial!

Hostility from hooligans and "fans" is common, worldwide. But attacking opponent players by officals (!) and players so they had to be hospitalized has seldom happend, if ever. Worst of all was that the video footprints had been altered by the Turkey television. On the first release the attack from Alpai had been removed.

Actually, there had been a trial.

The punishment would have been less severe, if only players had been kicking (the Swiss player got 6 games and won't be playing for more than two years). I always thought that in the end the host is responsible for the wellbeing of the guests. The Turkey team surely hasn't been treated as badly when they were in Switzerland.

Whatsoever, we're still eating Kebab. So our citizen from Turkey don't suffer from that incident.

Bruno