Last night was the semi-final of the “Concacaf Gold Cup” between Mexico and Panama. First Panama got a player sent off for a very innocuous foul , Then Panama went one goal up, then in the 89th minute the referee, one Mark Geiger from The USA, gave a penalty to Mexico for a phantom foul that only he saw, then in extra time gave a nother non-existent penalty to Mexico, who scored it and therefore won the match 2-1.
Here’s the front page of Panama’s top circulation daily paper “Crítica” this morning. For the record “árbitro” is Spanish for referee:
And the text of the report is even better than the screamer headline. Thanks due to reader ‘T’ for the send: