Referees

Here's the FIFA referee roster for the World Cup.

Can I just take a moment to express my complete befuddlement that Peter Prendergast is a again a tournament referee? No referee consistently gets things wrong more than Prendergast--the Gregg Berhalter "handball" call in Costa Rica, the disallowed Belgian goal against Brazil in the round of 16 in 2002... and those were just the big result-changing mistakes. He makes terrible calls in every match he officiates.

I think having the referee roster correlate with the geographical breakdown of the participants is utterly idiotic. Competence should be the only factor determining whether a referee participates. Any referee with experience in the top European or South American leagues would be better than that joker Prendergast.