Over the course of watching the game this morning, it became clear to me that FIFA doesn’t want the US to advance in the World Cup. I’d wager it has something to do with other countries’ fanbases “caring more”, creating an arena where countries besides the US can excel at something, and probably just general hatred of America and freedom. Now granted, our players will not be executed if they return home without a victory, we do dominate the world in most other things, and the world does hate us; but that is no excuse for denying us rightly earned goals and games [and no, the US losing would not be "For the Good of the Game"].

You would think that after the Koman Coulibaly debacle that robbed the US of a win against Slovenia that the officials on the pitch for this game against Algeria would have gotten some memo prior to kickoff saying something like “if it’s close, rule in the US’ favor”. After all, that would really be the ONLY way that FIFA and/or any officials related to that disaster could make up for that loss…

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