Didi Hamann: “A Disgraceful Decision”

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The former Liverpool and German defender Didi Hamann wasn’t impressed with the decision to award a penalty last night  to England in the Euros semi-final’s against the Danish. Hard to disagree really when Raheem Sterling went down inside the box there looking like hardly any contact, did the officials get the decision wrong?

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“This is a disgraceful decision. We brought VAR in exactly to stop these decisions.

There is no contact whatsoever. Sterling as soon as he puts the ball Maehle, goes down.

I think it is a disgraceful decision.

Then I thought justice was done, but the ball was just too close to Schmeichel. He wanted to keep it when he saved it and not palm it away, but it was too close to his body.

England prides itself on being the home of fair play and no diving…

There is no contact whatsoever. VAR was brought in to rectify these decisions and change blatant mistakes by the referee. This is as blatant of a mistake as you will see.

This is a European Championship semi-final. I feel very sorry for the Danes. There is every chance they would have got to penalties and we all thought they would have had the advantage with Schmeichel in goal.

Congratulations to England but the way they won the game is not in the spirit of the game.”

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