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It could be red card for English referee

English referee Graham Poll may be dropped for the closing stages of the World Cup after his blunder in giving Croatia's Josip Simunic three yellow cards against Australia, FIFA said on Saturday.

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Updated : Sep 18, 2017, 04:18 PM IST

NEU-ISENBERG: English referee Graham Poll may be dropped for the closing stages of the World Cup after his blunder in giving Croatia's Josip Simunic three yellow cards against Australia, FIFA said on Saturday.

The referees' committee will meet on Wednesday to decide which official will take charge of matches from the quarterfinal stage onwards.

Andreas Werz, a spokesman for the referees' committee, said Poll's mistake may rule him out.

"Under normal circumstances, he would not take charge of any other matches at this World Cup," Werz said, explaining that the criteria would appear to count against the experienced English official.

"The performances so far in the World Cup are the first factor," he said.

Poll told the committee he had correctly booked Simunic in the 61st minute of the tense first-round game, but when the Croatian committed another foul in the 89th minute, he mistakenly wrote down the name of Australia's number three, Craig Moore, instead of Simunic, who was wearing the number three shirt for Croatia.

He therefore failed to send him off.

It was only when Simunic committed another bookable offence in stoppage time that Poll showed him a red card.

The head of the referees' committee, Angel Maria Villar Llona, gave Poll lukewarm backing.

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