The refs must be on drugs

Day three of the World Cup just showed that the referees are not done yet with their dirty games.



In the last World Cup in Germany we saw a referee give a penalty to Italy against Australia in the 90th minute when an Italian tripped and fell on a static Australian on the ground.



We saw another referee issue three yellow cards to the same player but allowed him to play on.



In fact we saw a lot of horrible refereeing decisions which we thought would be improved on this time around but were they?

Come on, I watched the game between Germany and Australia and I thought the Germans got too many favours from the referee.



And that red card to Tim Cahill was as harsh as they come, wasn’t it?



But aside the help the Germans got from the referees, it turned out to be the highest score line yet at the World Cup though no hat trick yet.



I had to give kudos to the Germans. They took a young squad to the World Cup for the first time in ages and again after losing influential captain, Michel Ballack and first choice keeper, Rene Adler, they picked up the pieces easily to rout Australia, the highest scoreline in the World cup yet.



There are still more surprises to come.



Ghana show Nigeria how to do it



Ghana’s win against Serbia just showed that some African countries actually know why they are in the world Cup.



At least there was no argument over if the team played well, if they were expected to concede many goals or other things the Nigerians argued about.



The Ghanaians just did what serious teams going to the World Cup do- Win Matches.



While fans from my country, Nigeria are arguing that their tem played well, the Ghanaians already have three points in the bag.



Stadium protests, grenades and gun wielding policemen



My friend of 20 years, Colin Udoh is there in SA covering the World Cup and he sent a disturbing message yesterday while watching a game.



According to him there was a loud sound like and explosion outside the stadium and immediately angry looking police men barricaded the place and refused to let journalists out of the media center.



He said he eventually found his way out to discover that there was a protest outside the stadium by security workers, I think and the police used stun grenades to scare them.



Well, even blogging about it gives me the creeps so I wonder how they felt about it.



But its the World Cup. Hardly have a World Cup or Olympic Games gone by without one protest or the other and I would have been shocked if this one went protest free.



Well, its Day 3 gone... Many more days to go.