Graham Poll on World Cup refereeing

Tuesday, 13 July 2010


English referee Howard Webb was much-hyped in South Africa this summer, and was rightly awarded the final at Soccer City. On Sunday, his performance in the match between Spain and the Netherlands came under a lot of criticism. Both sides are unhappy, and while I'd suggest both could have made Webb's task easier I think there were significant errors made on the night.

Fortunately, the chaps at Coral Dugout have been running a load of Q&A activity with Graham Poll and very kindly offered me the chance to ask him a question of my own. In the video above, Poll explains the pressures and complications involved in refereeing at a World Cup, pressures and complications he has experience of himself, of course.

A great big "cheers" to the guys at Coral for hooking this up for me, and a quick pointer towards their Facebook page and Twitter account for some worthwhile football chat. Obviously the World Cup is done, but I'm sure there's more to come.

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Kwaitoball is twofootedtackle's World Cup 2010 blog, covering all the news, views and action from South Africa.

The World Cup runs from June 11th to July 11th 2010 and we'll be there every step of the way, keeping tabs on the build-up beforehand and wrapping up for a few weeks afterwards.

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