Who could have imagined that one refereeing decision in a match between two international teams outside the world’s top 15 would still be the subject of such fierce global scrutiny more than one month later?
The controversy surrounding Folarin Balogun’s harsh, if not overly egregious, red card for the U.S. men’s national team against Bosnia and Herzegovina could have been over in the bowels of Levi’s Stadium, when Mauricio Pochettino accepted the news that FIFA’s regulations negated any appeal of the decision.
