I thought that red card was very odd. I thought you only got a yellow card if the foul was obvious and intentional, and that you only got a red card if it was obvious, intentional, and done to injure the opposing player.
I haven't seen the plays that earned red cards in the games against Italy and Brazil. I just knew they were considered questionable calls by the U.S. side. But if they were anything like the call against Bradley, I think the U.S. has a point.
The rest of the officiating didn't seem unfair or one-sided at all. But that red-card call seemed uncharacteristically capricious -- it just seemed to come out of nowhere. There were lots of plays by both sides that seemed worse than that, in terms of intentional and potentially injurious fouls.
But I don't have any experience with these things, so I assume there was something about that play that was clearly different to the officials, and worthy of the card. If so, it was a really stupid play by Bradley, getting sent off when his team is poised to upset the #1 team in the world.
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