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Название: Geoff Hurst, the Hand of God and the Biggest Rows in World Football

Автор: Graham Poll

Издательство: HarperCollins

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      Geoff Hurst, The Hand Of God And The Biggest Rows In World Football

      Graham Poll

       Copyright

      HarperSport

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      First published in September 2009

      Copyright © Graham Poll 2009

      Graham Poll asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library

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      Source ISBN: 9780007313747

      Ebook Edition © OCTOBER 2009 ISBN: 9780007343669

      Version: 2016-09-19

      I appreciate and thank Julia, Gemma, Josie and Harry for their support but dedicate this book to the man who introduced me to football, refereeing and life—Henry James Poll, aka ‘Big Jim’, aka my dad.

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Dedication

       4-Schumacher's Crime of the Century

       5-Going by the Book

       6-A Tale of Two Penalties

       7-Beckham's Hanging Offence

       8-The Vegetable Patch

       9-Flagging in Japan

       10-My German Lesson

       Keep Reading

       Index

       Acknowledgments

       Also by Graham Poll

       About the Publisher

       INTRODUCTION

      On 22 June 2006, in the World Cup in Germany, I showed the yellow card to an Australian-born player twice but did not send him off.

      in the World Cup in Germany, another referee showed his yellow card twice to an Australian player and did not realize. It was the same mistake, in astonishingly similar circumstances, precisely 32 years earlier—but what happened next was very different.

      In my match, Australia versus Croatia in Stuttgart, I showed Josep Simunic two yellows but later sent him off, belatedly, after brandishing a third yellow at him. Hardly a day goes by, still, without my having to hear people making what they think is a joke about it.

      In the 1974 game, Australia versus Chile in Berlin, the referee was Jafar Namdar, from Iran. He cautioned Australia’s Ray Richards in the first half and then, six minutes from the end of the game, booked Richards again for time-wasting. Namdar did not get his red card out. Instead, he trotted away, unaware he had now cautioned Richards twice.

      Up in the stand, the Welsh referee Clive Thomas was watching. He realized the mistake and made it his business to find a FIFA official to point out what had happened. The official hurriedly told another FIFA man, who dashed down to the side of the pitch and informed the nearest linesman. Cue some frantic flag waving. Eventually, although four minutes had passed since referee Namdar had shown the second yellow card to Richards, he showed him the red.

      If only someone—anyone!—had got the message to me 32 years later. If only someone had written a book about World Cup controversies after 1974; perhaps I would have read it, learned, and lived happily every after.

      Now I have written that book. I have looked at ten major controversial incidents from different World Cups. I have examined them from a modern perspective, compared them with very recent controversies in the Premier League, and discovered how the game has changed, how refereeing has changed—and how some things have not altered at all.

      But this is not a refereeing book. It is a football book, because I am passionate about the game and I hope that this book will enable anyone who shares that passion to notice more of what goes on during games. I hope it helps interpret events with a deeper СКАЧАТЬ