Giuliani told reporters at the Foreign Press Center in Washington DC: “We found it highly suspicious that there was a referee who had been investigated for match-fixing previously, and specifically for irregular red cards, issuing irregular red cards.
“And then when you add the fact that the process was misapplied by how the VAR was initiated there. Contact fouls, you cannot actually utilise the slow-motion in the VAR, and they did that. So when you add those two facts together there, we found [that] it was very, very highly suspicious.
He added: “Look, the US government, whether it’s at the ballot box or whether it’s on the playing field, we want fair play, all right? And so for us, we thought that was very suspicious, to say the least, just like most Americans, I think just like most people who took an unbiased view of this. And we’re happy that US Soccer was able to file the appeal, and that we think the correct result was achieved.”
Well, they stick together at least. It’s a case of one for all and all 4-1.
Challenged by a Brazilian reporter who said Claus had merely given testimony to the match-fixing investigation, and was not a target of it himself, Giuliani admitted: “He was not accused of crimes. We understand that. What I’m telling you is that he was akin to a match-fixing investigation a few years ago in Brazil, where they were giving out, I quote, ‘irregular red cards’, right? So that’s the facts of it. He was akin to that investigation.”
We can’t trust this bank teller. They were involved in a bank robbery investigation.
I agree that VAR should rely more heavily on game speed replays and less heavily on slow motion, and I’m pretty sure Giuliani’s meddling is hurting that case more than he’s helping it.
