[Bagor]

I am not suggesting bias. That's for you conspiracy nutters at RAWK.

I'm suggesting a combination of incompetence and inexperience of dealing with big crowd games. It's not that the individual in charge is from a third world soccer nation but UEFA's insistance that ALL 6 officials be from the same country. You won't convince me that there are 6 world class officials from Hungary with experience in big match, big crowd games.

In the case of the Muller blatant interference I think that is simply a case of the referee bottling it in front of the home crowd. The foul was so obvious that there is no other explanation. A strong linesman would have helped there. That sort of miss right in front of him AND the linesman is inexcusable.

Also, although Gomez was fractionally offside there was enough distance and time between him and the passes to allow that call to be made. The linesmand was looking straight up the line and Gomez was offside for a period of time. Same with the handballs. The first was a clear cut penalty right in front of him. The 2nd imo was no penalty but to be fair he was unsighted also.

But ... hey good job with the Howard Webb reference. After all if it wasn't for him Liverpool would be champions now .......... amirite?

Refereeing this CL has been substandard.