{"id":41375,"date":"2024-07-12T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/euro-2024-uefa-told-to-blacklist-referee-zwayer-after-englands-win-over-netherlands\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T06:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T06:00:17","slug":"euro-2024-uefa-told-to-blacklist-referee-zwayer-after-englands-win-over-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/euro-2024-uefa-told-to-blacklist-referee-zwayer-after-englands-win-over-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2024: UEFA told to \u2018blacklist\u2019 referee Zwayer after England\u2019s win over Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Netherlands striker, Pierre van Hooijdonk has called on UEFA to \u2018blacklist\u2019 referee, Felix Zwayer following England\u2019s recent Euro 2024 semi-final win over Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>England will face Spain in the Euro 2024 final on Sunday in Berlin after Ollie Watkins\u2019 90th minute winner sealed a 2-1 victory for Gareth Southgate\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p>The Three Lions were gifted a penalty in the first half of the match when Denzel Dumfries attempted to block Harry Kane\u2019s shot, judged to have clipped the England captain in the process.<\/p>\n<p>A VAR review resulted in referee Zwayer overturning his original decision and awarded England a penalty which Kane converted.<\/p>\n<p>However, Van Hooijdonk wants Zwayer to be banned from major matches in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey [England] can thank Felix Zwayer. He really needs to be blacklisted. Terrible,\u201d van Hooijdonk told NOS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso in the second half. A duel with Cody Gakpo where he simply blew his whistle again, ten meters from the linesman. Those are moments that were crucial in this match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cWe can talk about it at length, but if you\u2019re going to award a penalty for this. Then you could end up with eight of them on the spot in the final. Really terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Euro 2024: UEFA told to \u2018blacklist\u2019 referee Zwayer after England\u2019s win over Netherlands<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Netherlands striker, Pierre van Hooijdonk has called on UEFA to \u2018blacklist\u2019 referee, Felix Zwayer following England\u2019s recent Euro 2024&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4187,14457,15,160,2543,20643],"tags":[20644,1279,235,2718,16075,2716,14458,180,216,1149,201,704,2548,685,20349],"class_list":["post-41375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","category-netherlands","category-news","category-sport","category-uefa","category-zwayer","tag-blacklist","tag-1279","tag-after","tag-england","tag-englands","tag-euro","tag-netherlands","tag-news","tag-over","tag-referee","tag-sport","tag-told","tag-uefa","tag-win","tag-zwayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}