Quintin Jardine's blog

I’m well short of being an Arsenal fan but I am a football fan and I believe in fairness. So as Arsene Wenger suggests I should be, I am unhappy that last night’s game in Barcelona was marred by one of the worst, least considered and least defensible refereeing decisions I have ever seen. I’m not going to say it cost the Gunners the game, for they were outplayed for 90 minutes and if they’d had twelve men rather than ten that would still have happened. But I am angry that there are no sanctions against referees who fail as badly as that Swiss clown did last night. His career will carry on regardless. We will probably see him in charge of another European tie before the season is over, and that will be unfair to the people who pay good money to watch that game.

I can’t conceive of any realistic circumstances in which Mr Busacca would ever be given charge of an Old Firm game, but I can imagine all too easily the potential for disaster if he was.