World Cup: To end officiating fiasco, use replay, more refs

By Philip Hersh

July 9, 2010 8:53 AM PT

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I’m hoping Sunday’s World Cup championship game between Spain and the Netherlands is decided by an officiating decision as bad as the one that denied England what would have been a tying -- and possibly game-changing -- goal in its second-round loss to Germany. It might prompt some long-overdue action.

-- Philip Hersh

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Philip Hersh

Philip Hersh, the former Olympic specialist for Tribune Co., covered 17 Olympics and reported from some 50 countries in 30 years with the Chicago Tribune. He likes to use sport as a way to write about the culture of a country or an athlete. Hersh graduated from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts in French literature. His passions include chamber music, road cycling (takes no PEDs except Advil) and Dr. Siri mysteries.