Gareth Southgate fears England unfairly targeted by World Cup referees after they featured in pre-tournament briefing video ENG
has now shared his concerns that England may be treated differently to other nations by officials, after his team were used as an example in a briefing video prior to the tournament.FIFA referees committee chairman Pierluigi Collina singled out England during a pre-tournament briefing – also open to the media.
He showed a clip of Kalvin Phillips blocking to create space in the box for Maguire to score in England’s 5-0 World Cup qualifying win over Albania last year.Southgate believes the Three Lions were denied a clear penalty when Maguire was hauled down against IranThat concerned Southgate, whose fears only deepened after Maguire was denied a penalty against Iran.“What we were shown [in the briefing] – the incident in the first half [against Iran]… we were told that would be a definite penalty.
“In the second half, maybe there’s a shirt pull, we’ve got to be better on that, but I’m a bit worried we were the example shown.“And then to get a decision as happened in the first half – we need some clarification really as to how it’s going to be.” Southgate then went on to state how the FA had gone to FIFA after their opening match at the 2018 World Cup against Tunisia where Harry Kane was denied a spot-kick after being dragged to the floor.The ex-Middlesbrough gaffer added: “It happened in Russia and we’ve got to have that dialogue with Fifa [again].“Goals are going in and we don’t know whether they stand or not.
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