Coombs Not that football laws work like general laws, but our common sense understanding of them depends on the criteria of guilty mind plus guilty act.
One problem becomes the regress of the manner of "guilty intent" or foreknowledge of possible consequences.
We go from Balogun supposedly being aware of endangering another player with this action, to this referee supposedly being blissfully unaware he was handing out a pretty gratuitous one match suspension to the United States' most useful striker. All you can say in the end is "seen 'em given" ... lucky if it looks for one second as if the referees aren't just making it up as they go along.
