Originally Posted by
Warbler
The only concern I've got with it is that referees seem to be under an inferred obligtion to reverse a decision, which is understandable when you've got a team of half a dozen other referees in a booth studying something and they then invite you to take a second look at. The on-field official should have stood his ground on his failure to award the Iran penalty against Portugal, and of course Iran missed a gilt edged chance a minute later that would have knocked Portugal out