Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Gourcuff was sent off by referee Ruiz

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The Les Bleus were unlucky to have reduced to 10 men by the 26th minute as TV replays clearly showed that Gourcuff elbow contact with the head of Macbeth Sibaya was apparently not intentional and harmless though the Colombian referee Oscar Ruiz thought otherwise.

The game was as good as over for France thereafter.

Thierry Henry, who came in for Djibril Cisse in the 55th minute, wore the captain's arm band but could not do much in the match.


Image: Referee Ruiz gestures after showing the red card to France's Gourcuff for a foul on South Africa's Sibaya

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