Peter Sharkey: Need for Eye on the game

Dec 04 2009 | Other Sport

How the referee failed to award France a penalty and send off West German goalkeeper Harald Schumacher when the keeper assaulted French substitute Patrick Battiston during the 1982 World Cup semi-final is one of life’s great mysteries. Battiston was clean through on goal when Schumacher administered the equivalent of a forearm smash, knocking Battiston unconscious and breaking his jaw. Read