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Jun 29, 2006 

Which Ref Will Royally Screw Up In The Quarters?

WORLD CUP REFS READY TO MAKE THEMSELVES INFAMOUS

The mere fact that anyone would care about the allocation of referees for the quarterfinals should you tell you everything about the overindulgence of this World Cup's arbiters. Here's Friday and Saturday's assignments:
GER-ARG: Lubos Michel
ITA-UKR: Frank De Bleeckere
ENG-POR: Horacio Elizondo
BRA-FRA: Luis Medina Cantalejo

You might note that the referee that greased Italy's skids into the quarterfinals, Luis Medina Cantalejo, is available to do the same for "angelic" Brazilians against France.

Portugal might have an advantage against England Saturday. Referee Horacio Elizondo is of Argentine descent. Hopefully, he vividly remembers the ill-fated Falkland Island war against the Brits in the 1980s.