Mexican Referees for the match against England…

The nickname of the 1st official in Mexico is Chiquidracula (cheeky-dracula). So when he makes a call in foavor of the other team you have good fodder for name-calling.

Posted from  United States

Thanks John, lets hope than he don’t drink the blood of anyone…

Posted from  United States

I am very concerned about this referee. I am English and have been living in Mexico for 4 years now. He is the one referee I have paid attention to here as he is so card happy. In the final of a club championship here, he made many dubious decisions involving 3 or 4 red cards (Monterrey vs Toluca). There was also another game where he dished out another 4 or 5 red cards involving Veracruz. England needs to be very wary of him and perhaps be less physical.

Posted from  Mexico

James, I think you’re right. I also know that referee. In my opinion, when he is not emotional of all his red card repertoire, he is actually a referee that really goes through the rules…..but to the extreme. so if the rule now is that a diver gets a yellow, any dive will get a yellow, he wont mind if that implies a second yellow and so on. on the physical side, if the rule says that a challenge from behind is a yellow, he will give them

on the other hand, if the game is physical, I have seen that this referee will not give in as long as the game is clean and fair. so bottomline is that as long as his appreciation is objective, then no issues, otherwise, england may end up losing 1 man during the match.

Posted from  United Kingdom

Or many key players picking up yellow cards jeopardizing themselves for the sweden game.

Posted from  Mexico

That a key point James, if many players receive yellow card, I believe than both teams will loss some players for the third match. In the case of England is more concerning because they will face Sweden in their third match.

The other thing is that if Chiquidracula is very “card Happy” I firmly believe that niether of both teams will finish that match with all their players. And I have two candidates to see the red card in this match: Delio Toledo (Par) and David Beckham (Eng). I don’t know why, but I got that feeling.

Posted from  United States

slasher 007

Posted from  United States

The referee was a basterd with the English, especially Crouch. Fuck him

Posted from  Malta

What about standing on Coles hand when he was on the floor?

Posted from  United Kingdom

worst ref iv’e ever seen and ive seen some bad ref’s.idiot.

Posted from  Spain

The Brits seem to suffer from a particular disease that they haven’t quite recovered from yet:

-Always blame the referee.

It is about time you looked at your own players rather than constantly blaming the officials.

It doesn’t help that it is commonplace in your football league to badmouth referees, wether you’re a coach or a sorry excuse of a “fan”.

Posted from  Switzerland

I agree 100% with Akbar. Refs aren’t always perfect, but maybe it’s time to take responsability for England’s many shortcommings instead of blaming the referee.

Posted from  United States

Akbar and Nolan, we’re not blaming the referee for loosing, because we didn’t. But he disrupted the whole flow of the match. Crouch answered back the referee for no good reason, and I’d call him an idiot for that. But seven fouls against Crouch? You must be kidding me…

Posted from  Malta

Dear Akber / Nolan,

If you saw the match for yourselves, you might have noticed the referee was soooooooo unfair. He fowled 4 to 6 throw-ins by professional footballers and I don’t think any footballer can make that many mistakes in a simple throw-in…

Finally, I appreciate England played bogus in the second half but well…

P.S: Did you notice the referee actually stepped on the Cole after he was down?

This type of referees are in my opinion the most stupids, because it seems like them want to become the protagonist of the match, when the players are the protagonist and they only need to view the game without any influence.

I saw a few elbows that he didn’t call foul, and in the throw-in he was very stupid.

What about the ring of Beckham, isn’t that a FIFA prohibition?

Posted from  United States

Mr. Imtiaz Hashem, assure yourself, we all saw the match, otherwise we wouldn’t be commenting on it.

Mr. Rodriguez is the perfect example of a non-emotional straightforward referee who will call a foul a foul.

The modern game has become too abstract. Referees will ignore shirt-tugging in the box, simply because they don’t want to “affect the match” or make a “controversial decision” by giving a penalty. As a result, everyone has become used to things like shurt-tugging and diving which the referees totally seem to ignore.

Your facts and figures are, of course, wrong. The referee only whistled around 3 throw-ins, and you make the point yourself: these are professional footballers. If the referee is whistling their throws it means they’ve been getting away with it for so long that it’s become a habit to do them wrong.

Mr. Rodriguez and the likes should be congratulated for not reacting to pressure and for reinforcing the true rules of the game.

The more referees like him, the more the rules will be obeyed.

Posted from  Switzerland

I’m sure you did see the match, Akbar. And you also saw the many inexplicable foul throw-in’s, Peter Crouch’s continual jumping up “fouling”, Steven Gerrard’s tackling the ball yellow-card “foul”, the incident where lil Joe Cole leapt up for the ball bullying two massive defenders sandwiched around him to the ground. That Joe Cole is such a bully. And of course, Frank Lampard falling to the floor and “fouling” the three defenders around him by landing on the ball, and struggling to get to his feet. And you know it’s a bad sign when the crowd cheers ironically after receiving their first decision after about 80 minutes of football. Of course there were 98 minutes of football in England vs Paraguay’s opener for some reason.

But no one is blaming the referee for it all going wrong, because it didn’t all go wrong. England won quite easily - Paraguay were a class below - and all going well against Trinidad, we’ll be in the second round by the end of tomorrow,
all of which doesn’t change the fact that the referee was very very poor.

Posted from  United Kingdom