{"id":1257772,"date":"2022-11-25T07:43:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T07:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/25\/hes-an-apology-of-a-referee-saddick-adams-loses-cool-calls-fifa-to-suspend-referee-ismail-elfath\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T07:43:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T07:43:57","slug":"hes-an-apology-of-a-referee-saddick-adams-loses-cool-calls-fifa-to-suspend-referee-ismail-elfath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/25\/hes-an-apology-of-a-referee-saddick-adams-loses-cool-calls-fifa-to-suspend-referee-ismail-elfath\/","title":{"rendered":"He\u2019s An Apology Of A Referee\u201d \u2013 Saddick Adams loses cool, calls FIFA to suspend referee Ismail Elfath \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>A lot of people have expressed their anger at the referee who awarded a penalty to Christiano Ronaldo during the Ghana and Portugal match yesterday. <\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: \u201cRacist\u201d and \u201cNO VAR\u201d trends on Twitter as the public calls FIFA to suspend referee Ismail Elfath\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The referer has been lambasted over the penalty he awarded to Ronaldo and his refusal to check the VAR. Some social media users have also slammed him over a foul he gave out to the Portugal team as a free kick. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the massive reactions online, sports journalist Saddick Adams has described Ismail Elfath as an apology of a referee and has called out FIFA to penalize the referee. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDear <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAcom\">@FIFAcom<\/a>, this is a public protest asking you to review and suspend this referee, Ismail Elfath. He\u2019s an apology of a referee and shouldn\u2019t be doing this at this level. Game-changing decisions without remorse.\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: Learn from Adjetey Anang \u2013 Fred Amugi to young actors\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dear <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAcom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FIFAcom<\/a>, this is a public protest asking you to review and suspend this referee, Ismail Elfath. <\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s an apology of a referee and shouldn\u2019t be doing this at this level. Game changing decisions without remorse. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Emj319cyIO\">pic.twitter.com\/Emj319cyIO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Saddick Adams (@SaddickAdams) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SaddickAdams\/status\/1595854865338712064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Source: www.ghbase.com<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; A lot of people have expressed their anger at the referee who awarded a penalty to Christiano Ronaldo during the Ghana and Portugal match yesterday. READ ALSO: \u201cRacist\u201d and \u201cNO VAR\u201d trends on Twitter as the public calls FIFA to suspend referee Ismail Elfath\u00a0 The referer has been lambasted over the penalty he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1257774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11891,13,230,8047,29343,779,3529,16683,1568,1423,18481,515],"class_list":["post-1257772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-adams","tag-apology","tag-calls","tag-cool","tag-elfath","tag-fifa","tag-hes","tag-ismail","tag-loses","tag-referee","tag-saddick","tag-suspend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}