On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Bob in Jersey <[email protected]>wrote:

> I didn't see it live, but the World Cup qualifier in Colorado Friday where
> the US team apparently ousted the Costa Ricans looked rather disgusting
> even to someone like me that has watched, and enjoyed, what the world at
> large calls football... even to ESPN's "studio" crew sitting around their
> trademark desk covered at least 2 inches high with the white stuff... this
> Yahoo op-ed 
> piece<http://sports.yahoo.com/news/costa-rica-may-protest-loss-united-states-valid-172900530--sow.html>notes
>  how many of the pitches in other lands where the Amer'cans have
> played were unprotestable, and so should this one...
>

FIFA rejected Costa Rica's appeal. They actually did not reject it on its
merits, but on the grounds that it was not filed correctly. Costa Rica
either had to file a protest before game time or an appeal within two hours
of the game. They waited two days.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/news/20130326/costa-rica-appeal-rejected-fifa-usmnt.ap/

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