We are not playing handball, ladies!

A mistake? A blackout? Blindness? No - blindness of a minimum of four officials, including Gaal who MUST see that, including Aspinall, Cini and Steinhaus as well.

A single error which will never happen again? Far from it!
I remember that this incident occured last year as well. Poor that Reyes had to walk down to Sarah Ho, but anyway, she awarded a penalty, thank Godness...

Therefore one has to ask oneself: is that professionalism? It is more likely a rhetorical question...apart from the fact that the players have certainly a lack of this professionalism, we have to talk about those officials. After Melksham, Cha, Gaal, Kari Seitz, the most experienced referee at this World Cup, followed with a bad perfomance which was characterized by one of the most obvious mistakes of this tournament when letting the play go on despite a clear foul preceding the first goal which smoothed the way for the Brazilians into the quarterfinals.
It is quite interesting how FIFA has reacted: No match for Cha and Gaal, no match for them as 4th Officials either. When you give an opener match in front of an audience of 75.000 people to a woman you must have the opinion that this woman is a good referee (Melksham), after a poor perfomance in the opener Melksham has not got a further match either, perhaps not her last, but certainly a small signal. At least the consequence of poor perfomances is still ensured in FIFA's decisions...which has not always been the case if you think about Undiano, our Germans' friend from Pamplona who enjoys throwing cards through the air...