投票: It was my 決定/判定勝ち(する) to leave the World Cup

Last updated at 17:29 29 June 2006


Graham 投票, England's most high-profile football 審判(をする), has 発表するd his 退職 from the international game after making the worst 失敗 of the World Cup tournament so far.

投票, who was の中で 14 審判(をする)s not 保持するd by 治める/統治するing 団体/死体 Fifa for the latter 行う/開催する/段階s of the 競争, then increduously said that it was his 決定/判定勝ち(する) not to 審判(をする) any その上の games at this year's tournament

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    投票 was lambasted after he gave three yellow cards to a 選び出す/独身 player in the game between Australia and Croatia.

    He 調書をとる/予約するd Croatia's Josip Simunic three times before eve ntually sending him off. Two bookings should mean an (a)自動的な/(n)自動拳銃 解雇/(訴訟の)却下.

    The glaring mistake earned a rebuke from Fifa 大統領,/社長 Sepp Blatter, who said: "It 簡単に should not have happened."

    投票, who will continue officiating at club level, said: "It was my error and the buck stops with me. I didn't sleep for two nights after the game and have now had a week to 反映する. My 決定/判定勝ち(する) is about about 存在 honest and deciding it's time to move on."

    'It wasn't them sending me home or them 説 'you are rubbish go away'

    投票 told Sky Sports News: "The 苦痛 and agony I have gone through, to have it happen again would be unbelievable and I couldn't go through with it."

    He went as far to 示唆する that he had 勧めるd FIFA not to give him another game in the World Cup before they had made their 決定/判定勝ち(する).

    "I told FIFA that I had no heart to 審判(をする) again at this World Cup," 追加するd 投票. "That was a 決定/判定勝ち(する) that wasn't needed for them.

    "It wasn't them sending me home or them 説 'you are rubbish go away'. It's too 即座の to think about running out again in a major game.

    "It was certainly my request. I 明言する/公表するd what I felt and my 悔恨 for what happened.

    "They know my place now is with family and friends and it is time to go home."

    投票 認める there was nobody to 非難する but himself for his mistakes.

    "Certainly what happened a week ago is something I 深く,強烈に 悔いる," he 追加するd.

    "Inexcusably I made an error in 法律 and most mistakes, most discussion, most 論争 surrounds opinion and they are things we can always 審議.

    "But what I did it was an error in 法律 and for that there can be no 論争.

    "It wasn't 原因(となる)d by a FIFA 指示的な or because I 審判(をする) 異なって than what I do in the 首相 League.

    "The 審判(をする) takes 責任/義務 for the 活動/戦闘s on the field of play and I was the 審判(をする) that evening and it was my error and the buck stops with me."

    投票 (人命などを)奪う,主張するs the events 攻撃する,衝突する him and his family hard, 説: "I've had a week to 反映する and the first two nights were 完全に sleepless.

    "It's been something that has 傷つける me 深く,強烈に. It's not about carrying the can, it's about 存在 honest. I got it wrong and I am sorry."

    In the game between Australia and Croatia, 投票 had already sent two players off before the 混乱 over Simunic.

    He also 行方不明になるd a handball in the 刑罰,罰則 area and 許すd a goal when players were offside.

    Harry Kewell 得点する/非難する/20d a late equaliser for Australia and the game finished 2-2.

    But Fifa said Australia would have had grounds to request a replay if they had lost.

    投票, 42, from Hertfordshire, took 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金 of one game at the 2002 World Cup and had been thought a good bet to be の中で the 審判(をする)s 選ぶd for the final 行う/開催する/段階s this time - perhaps even to officiate at the final.

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