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From Planetfootball
English referee Graham Poll has been sent home from the World Cup, following a high-profile blunder in the Group F match between Australia and Croatia last week.
Fifa took the expected action after Poll failed to dismiss Croatian defender Josip Simunic - despite showing the player two yellow cards.
Poll's error was compounded by his decision to book Simunic a third time at the final whistle - at which point he did mete out a belated red card.
Poll's exit was the culmination of a disappointing tournament for the Hertfordshire official, who dismissed Togo's Yaovi Abalo for a second bookable offence against South Korea in unorthodox fashion - showing first a red card and then the yellow to Abalo.
Fifa also confirmed that Russian official Valentin Ivanov - the man in the middle for the infamous Portugal v Holland clash - will take no further part in the tournament.
Ivanov handed out 16 yellow cards and four reds to create a new World Cup record for the number of sanctions issued in a single match.
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