Dale Johnson
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325 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Jul
Dale Johnson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's a crazy situation.
It's a podcast for ages.
It's a crazy situation, really.
They have the situation where Florian Bolligan, the best player for the United States, their leading goal scorer who scored three goals in the tournament, he goes into a challenge with a Bosnia player and catches the Bosnia player on the ankle in quite a nasty type of way.
And this decision is sent to the video assistant referee to review it.
The referee is then sent to the monitor to look at it and he decides that it should be a red card.
Now, with a red card, what normally happens is, well, what always happens, let's be honest, is that it's an automatic one game suspension and that player will miss the next game for the team, which in this case, the United States will be the match against Belgium tomorrow.
On Monday.
Now, the twist to this came yesterday when, totally unexpectedly, completely out of the blue, FIFA announced that Balogun would not serve a ban.
It would be suspended on probation, essentially, for the period of one year.
And he would be able to play in this game against Belgium for the host country.
Well, it certainly doesn't at a tournament like the World Cup.
The FIFA disciplinary code has a list of sanctions depending on what a player has done.
Now, in this case, it was a serious foul play red card.
And the sanction guideline there says this is a suspension of at least two matches.
So Balogun should have missed this game against Belgium and one more.
Now, buried away in the actual FIFA disciplinary code, clause 27, and you get this with sporting bodies generally, there's a clause which basically gives them the right to change things as they want.
It says that they can suspend any disciplinary measure if they so wish for any reason.
And this is what they've chose to activate in this case.
But it does feel as though it has been chosen for a specific case, which has left a pretty bad taste in the mouth of the general football fan.
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