Oh man, I remember all of these, but they bring out awful memories of some of the shitiest decisions ever in Belgian football history. In the 2002 World Cup 1/8 Final against brasil, we had the lovely referee called Peter Prendergast. This man saw a ghost foul by Marc Wilmots when he scored the perfectly legal 1-0 against Brasil.
You can see the faces of Wilmots, Mpenza and the coach, completely baffled to even protest. We dominated that game, and with 1-0 I think we would have taken it home. Eventually Brasil won the game, and the World Cup...
In 1994 something similar happened to us, again in the 1/8 final of the World Cup, now against Germany. Belgium was 3-1 down, with 20 minutes to go, Josip Weber gets fouled from behind in the box. A clear red card and a penalty for Belgium. But referee Ben Röthlissberger did see no harm in it. Eventually Belgium even scored 3-2, by a goal from Philippe Albert. But with a penalty kick and a man down, it was a whole different ball game.
You can see the fase at 14:42 in the video below. Horrible decision.
The names Prendergast and Röthlissberger are in the collective memory of every Belgian football fan, and not for good reasons!
Sincerely,
Pele23
I'm guessing that Belgium didn't get the memo from FIFA that said Brazil were winning the WC that year so don't bother trying to beat them because otherwise we'll get the ref to make sure of it! 🤣
The 2nd one. I mean there is no way that the defender can legally tackle the forward once he's allowed him to get goal side - a blind man would give that as a penalty!
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Yep, pretty awful memories to World Cups here in Belgium. Allthough 1986 en 2018 were awesome, we had some very bad decisions against us. That one against Germany, I was 13 years old, but I remember it as if it was yesterday. And then there is the 119th minute goal of David Platt in the World Cup of 1990, in a game were we completely ridiculed England, but the goal posts decided otherwise... Oh man, a hate-love relationship with the WC. Thanks for the Beer though! ;-)
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