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Refs not sure replay would work

Updated: June 21, 2010, 3:49 PM ET
Associated Press

DERDEPOORT, South Africa -- Martin Hansson cried when he found out he missed the Thierry Henry handball that sent France to the World Cup over Ireland.

"If you take 10 decisions every minute, it's impossible to have 900 decisions correct in the game," the Swedish referee said Monday.

In the World Cup, with hundreds of millions of people watching around the globe, calls are scrutinized like no others in sports. So when a referee from Mali inexplicably disallowed an American goal that ...

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