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IMPORTANT lessons we have learned from the World Cup: 1) Referee Graham Poll is not an innumerate tube but is a visionary. With yellow cards being distributed like confetti, his unilateral decision to increase the value of the red card from two yellows to three was, in hindsight, a masterstroke. Sepp Blatter, after initial criticism of Mr Poll not being able to count up to two, advocated that it should be three accumulated yellows and not two before a player is banned from the next match.
2) Not all that Sepp Blatter says is bollocks. The Fifa president has been talking about women's football. He said the game would attract a bigger audience if the ladies wore more feminine apparel such as tighter shorts. It springs to mind that if it were anyone but the Fifa president who came out with this stuff about the ladies' kit, they would be up the road for sexism. But, then, Mr Blatter is a former president of the Worldwide Society of Friends of Suspenders. That's suspenders as in ladies' stockings and not suspenders as in ageing Fifa officials who ban players with two (or three) yellow cards.See the full content of this document
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3) If you think ITV and BBC are bad for anglo-centric coverage, they had a strong rival with Five. The channel devoted a sizeable chunk of one Worl...
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