The president of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, apologized this morning for bad refereeing at the 2010 World's Cup, and said that the FIFA will reopen the discussion on instant replay.

"I deplore when you see the evident referees’ mistakes,” Mr. Blatter told reporters. “It has not been a five-star game for referees. I’m distressed by the evident referees’ mistakes.”

Well, he should apologize. Well he should deplore the evident mistakes. Well he should be distressed. And it about time that the old coots running the FIFA step into the 21st century. The USA team was penalized in its matches by refereeing errors, and so were England and Mexico. In England's crucial game with Germany, though the Germans went on to score 4 goals to 1, disallowing a goal to tie the game had an effect on the game's momentum and may have influenced the eventual outcome. Argentina, in their 3 goals to 1 match with Mexico was erroneously awarded a goal.

“I apologized to England and Mexico,” Blatter said. “The English said ‘thank you’ and accepted that you can win and you lose, and the Mexicans bowed their head and accepted it.”

I don't think a good number of England's football supporters have accepted the gentleman's apology.