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You really know you have a problem when the prime minister of Ukraine chimes in in favor of more transparency … on the soccer field.

Less
than 24 hours after not one, not two, not three, but five officials
botched a call that cost one of the co-hosts a goal against England and
perhaps a shot at advancing to the quarterfinals, Prime Minister Mykola
Azarov said he had incontrovertible proof that Marko Devic’s shot did go
completely over the goal line — his own eyes.

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