When it comes to World Cup referees, FIFA is showing a red card to its old ways
by Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times
Nov 09, 2022
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES — Just eight people alive have refereed a World Cup final. More people have orbited the moon.
So statistically speaking, Howard Webb had a better chance of becoming a Supreme Court justice than he did of getting the call to work the last game of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
"I got to know that I was doing the final on Thursday, and the game took place on Sunday," Webb remembered. "I'm quite amazed that I managed to sleep at night because the game is so huge. You know that everybody that you know in the world is going to be
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