Herrera blows his top
Mexico’s coach, Miguel Herrera, doesn’t need much to get him excited – his emotional explosions at the World Cup making him an internet star. So when his team was knocked out by two goals in the closing minutes of the last-16 tie with Holland – one a dubious penalty after an Arjen Robben tumble – he wasn’t going to go quietly. “We ended up losing because he whistled a penalty that did not exist. Out of the four matches here in all of them the refereeing was disastrous. Robben did three dives and he should have been cautioned. You should caution a guy who is trying to cheat, and then if Robben did it again he would be sent off. And why did Fifa choose a referee from the same confederation as Holland instead of one from South America, Asia or Africa? The doubtful decisions were always against us. We have to say it in capital letters, in three matches we had horrible refereeing. The man with the whistle knocked us. I want the referee committee to take a look and that the referee goes home just like us.”
Bosnia blame the ‘enemies’ back home
The Bosnia defender Emir Spahic turned the mixed zone into a very awkward place when he started finger-pointing at journalists from back home who had taken aim at his side after their elimination. “Criticism is part of our job. You have it all the time; all your life. And we must accept criticism because we didn’t play so well,” he said. “But some other things became a little bit too personal; the criticism was too heavy. And I didn’t expect that from my own people but obviously I have a lot of enemies. For those people, history means nothing. I’m hurt by this. But I’m proud because I’m Bosnian. I’m proud because of my people. We showed the world what Bosnian football is all about and I’m proud of that fact. They [the Bosnian media] cannot change that. They cannot take that away.”
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