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Berra was all over the Welsh player and that was a penalty, it went in our favour and it wasn't given. Its hard to take when a goals chopped off but being honest Wales were the better team in that second half and at least deserved a draw. I thought our chances of qualifying was back on around 70 mins. Thats it though, absolutely no chance now. Change the manager and start planning for Euro 2014. Just saw the highlights... Berra: penalty, also the Adams tackle against Ramsey. Fletcher goal: the ball was never out of play, but there was an offside position before the cross. Double error, correct result. So don't complain about poor refereeing as most of his major errors went in favour of Scotland! BTW, it was the referee who didn't see the Ukrainian goal against England as fourth official. Shame on our German referees

Be positive: Scotlands didn't lose 6 goals like Ireland did. On the negative side, with results like that they will struggle not to finish bottom. Sad but true.

Actually no. I live closer to the Danube :P

As I said in another thread, he was nothing but poor. I don't want to make an excuse for him, but he's not the only ref with exactly these problems. BTW, our friend Madden had the Germany vs Faroe qualifyer tie just after his "show" at Tynecastle, and didn't look too confident to me, though he couldn't do much wrong. Extraordinary pressure lowers confidence, without confidence it gets more and more difficult to do even the basic things right. Same with players, look at Shane Sutherland in the first few games. Excessive TV replays are exactly the reason for all this pressure and the problems we have in football in our time.

I've been a ref for 19 years, though never above medium amateur level, and I've had poor games as well, but the overall standard of professional refereeing seems on the decline. Switzerland for example didn't have a Super League match without a major error since August. Same with Austria, and in Germany it's not very much better. The only reason I can think of is the unbearable pressure by the media...

Fine, so I might find a stream here in Germany :)