在克羅地亞與澳大利亞比賽中出3張黃牌的英格蘭裁判波爾將在週五或週六得知自己的命運。國際足聯主席布拉特週五對記者説，“我相信裁判委員會很快就會對他的表現作出評估。我希望他們能圓滿地解決這件事情。我不明白比賽中的4名裁判，包括主裁、助理裁判和第四官員怎麼能讓這樣的事情發生，好象他們都昏了頭。有四個人在，發生錯誤時就應該有人説，停下，停下，出問題了。這就是為什麼我們有溝通系統。助理裁判和第四官員有權利告訴他。這樣的事發生真是不可理解。”國際足聯通訊總監Markus Siegler説，“在世界盃歷史上第一次發生這種事，一個球員在一場比賽中得3張黃牌，這也有點太多了。”

　　鏈結：http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=reu-worldreferee&prov=reuters&type=lgns

　　原文：World-English referee Poll's fate in balance

　　(updating with Viduka quote)

　　By Mike Collett

　　BERLIN, June 23 (Reuters) - English referee Graham Poll will learn his World Cup fate later on Friday or on Saturday following his blunder in handing three yellow cards to the same player during Thursday's Croatia-Australia match.

　　Poll booked Croatia defender Josip Simunic three times, after 62 minutes, 90 minutes and in the 93rd minute, the third minute of stoppage time, when he finally sent him off in the Group F match in Stuttgart.

　　FIFA president Sepp Blatter told reporters on Friday: "I place my trust in the referee's committee who will meet very soon to make an assessment on his performance. I hope they will show the tact in their handling that this matter deserves.

　　"I cannot understand how the four people in the team refereeing the match, the referee, the assistants and the fourth official could have allowed this to happen. It is like they had a blackout.

　　"There were four people there, an evident error had been made. Someone should have said 'stop, stop, something is wrong here'.

　　"That's why they have the communication system. The assistants and the fourth official have the right to call on the referee and tell him. It is not understandable how this happened."

　　Poll's linesmen were Philip Sharp and Glenn Turner of England while the fourth official was Kevin Stott of the United States.

　　TOO MUCH

　　A fifth official, used as a back-up in case the fourth official is called into the active refereeing team, was Gregory Barkey, also of the United States.

　　Markus Siegler, FIFA's director of communications, said: "We had a first in the history of the World Cup yesterday when one player was booked three times in the same match, that is a little too much."

　　Australia striker Mark Viduka said: "Everyone makes mistakes and Graham is a top class referee but I went up to him during the game and told him I thought he had already given the player a yellow.

　　"The ref said to me it was his first yellow but I was sure it was his second. I said, 'How many is that?', and he replied 'one'.

　　"It looks like he got it wrong."

　　FIFA were spared a logistical nightmare because the match ended in a 2-2 draw and Australia qualified for the next round with the Croatians being eliminated.

　　If Australia had lost the match, they would have had every right to protest against the result. FIFA would then have been duty bound to replay Thursday's match.

　　In the most recent case where a referee committed a technical error, last year's Asian World Cup qualifying playoff between Uzbekistan and Bahrain, the match was replayed.

　　Updated on Friday, Jun 23, 2006 9:07 am EDT

　　作者-李雪，二外英語系

責編：盧爽