{"id":718,"date":"2010-06-27T21:56:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T21:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=718"},"modified":"2010-06-27T21:56:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T21:56:55","slug":"blast_from_the_past_june_17_20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=718","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the past: June 17, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>&#8220;<\/i><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;\"><i>This may just be once-every-four-years ignorance here, but is it asking too much to have more than one official on the field? Every time I start watching international soccer, I am amazed by just how consistently inconsistent the officiating is. Would it utterly kill the sport to have three guys out there instead of one lone nut?<\/i><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;\"><i>I did love Eric Wynalda&#8217;s line, though: &#8220;There are only two kinds of referees: bad ones and worse ones.&#8221;<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;\">This was written after Jorge Larrionda gave the US two red-cards in 4 minutes in a 1-1 draw with Italy in the 2006 World Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#333333\" face=\"'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">Larrionda was assigned to the England-Germany match today, where he missed an England goal where the ball hit the crossbar and landed three feet deep in the goal.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#333333\" face=\"'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">FIFA never learns.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This may just be once-every-four-years ignorance here, but is it asking too much to have more than one official on the field? Every time I start watching international soccer, I am amazed by just how consistently inconsistent the officiating is. Would it utterly kill the sport to have three guys out there instead of one &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=718\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blast from the past: June 17, 2006&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}