Reasons To Cause Controversy: Euro 2012 Opener

June 8th, 2012 | by: chris | Comments Off

The greater the tournament’s stature, the lower the threshold for death-threat inducing refereeing decisions. Plus it’s just fun to cause problems from time to time.

The opener between Greece and Poland had a couple such scenarios, with an early red card (two yellows) for the men in blue that was pretty suspect, but more importantly: that damn handball in the box. Was it intentional? Nope. Is slap-handling a ball in the box in any way cool? Nope. Unfortunate happenings can be penalties too.

But it’s a good thing this wasn’t against the co-hosts or anything, because they never get favorable decisions…

[101gg]