Posted by: kunp July 8, 2004
ANA Convention
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Dear Bahadur977, Actually, Referee had called penalty both times, his hands clearly showed penalty sign, no doubt about that. I was watching with 4-5 NE and Dallas players from the sideline, thatýs what we saw and we all were surprised when Referee changed call to indirect free kick. I asked sideline Referee, his answer was "After talking to Sweeper (DC), Sweeper was covering just one to one, NO push, Main Referee changed call to indirect free kick". He definitely changed call from penalty to indirect free kick (for sure). I would not comment on whether foul was enough to call penalty both times even though Referee clearly had called penalty both times before he talked to dc players but looking at the circumstance how DC had been awarded penalty for small foulý..there is no questions that both kick should be awarded penalty kick. In that case, game could go either side, most likely NY. I would say this yearýs Real ANA champion is NY even through officially lucky DC won game. BTW, This year ANA final was brilliant game and no question about that and hope to see game like this next year.
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