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Originally Posted by Locke

The penalty was a penalty. There was zero subjectivity there, thats the easiest call a ref will make in their entire career. He had no choice but to give that, and the Germans should have put it away. Even so, that should have been a red to Vidic.

The 'tackling from behind' on Klose was soft. The first one especially, but he handed those out too easily, to both teams.

The one commentator said it best in my mind, Lahm got a legitimate yellow for a tackle and then later on made another perfectly clean tackle which the ref called a foul and the commentator says:

"This is when you know a referee has no control, when Lahm has to feel lucky to get to stay on the pitch and defend a free kick for making a perfectly clean tackle."

It went both ways, but you cant just keep handing out yellows, there has to be control without immediate and severe punishment, 'hey, that was a foul, thats the second time you've done it, do it again and I'll card you again.'

He did it with Schweinsteiger, when he booked him, he gave him 2 or 3 warnings, then he booked him for not heeding them. My issue is that Klose got nothing, no leniency at all and it changed the outcome of the game, potentially the tournament as you suspend one of Germany's best goal scorers.

I see your point, and you're right. Of course, I, as a Serbia fan will not complain. Yeah, Klose should have been warned first before giving him a second yellow. But on the other hand, I feel he was too lenient with Schweinsteiger, there were really horrible tackles on his part.