Posted by Eric Beard

The United States certainly are not happy with Koman Coulibaly, the ref of the Slovenia-US game, because he really did cost the US team a victory. However, this is nothing new for the US squad. Eric Wynalda, former USA forward, said that "FIFA needs to investigate" Coulibaly's decisions because he thought there were hints of match-fixing involved.

Its been awhile since i bought you an episode of my never-popular, What-If series, if you missed previous articles, on the 1986 World Cup, 1970 World Cup , or the 1980 European Championships, the idea is to take one of those magic moments in football where there is a flashpoint moment, and try to picture what might have happened had it gone the other way.

For those not in the know, over at the Premier League blog, I do a semi-regular column called Second Thoughts, basically where I take a controversial and/or Devil's Advocate position to some piece of Football Culture, and argue a point, just to get a bit of debate. It is intended as a bit of fun, and hopefully it is treated that way.

By Gordza Fleet, writing from New York City

There he was, standing on the touchline, wondering what could have been. The man was Marcelo Bielsa, coach of his home nation of Argentina. The stage, the 2002 World Cup in South Korea-Japan.

Moreno sending off Totti in 2002The Ecuadorian ex-referee Byron Moreno was caught today at the JFK airport in New York, trying to enter the United States with at least 13 pounds (6 kilograms) of heroin. Moreno has already had past accusations of drug use, but Moreno went on to referee important matches in the 2002 World Cup, including when he ridiculously eliminated Italy with some terrible decisions.