Source: New York Post
When is enough, enough? When does FIFA get issued a yellow car — or even a red — for its poor performance employing a referee who’s in over his head in the World Cup, the largest global sporting event on the planet? And VAR. See Also Why USMNT can’t appeal Folarin Balogun’s controversial red card What the hell are we doing with VAR? The concept of VAR (video assisted referee) is a sound one — much like replay in the NFL and other sports — in that we want to get the calls right. But who can possibly argue that the match referee, Raphael Claus, or VAR official, Juan Ernesto Soto Arévalo, got it right when America’s stop striker Folarin Balogun was ejected from Wednesday’s Round of 32 game against Bosnia-Herzegovina with a red card in the 64th minute of a tight match? This is not some jingoistic, pro-American red-white-and-blue-tinted glasses complaint about the U.
