article_snippet.sent: UEFA has opened a real can of worms by ordering the final 18 seconds of the European Women's Under 19 Championship qualifier between England and Norway Norway to be replayed following a refereeing error.
article_snippet.sent: However, FIFA did something similar during a 2006 World Cup qualifier.
article_snippet.sent: Back in 2005 Uzbekistan were playing Bahrain in the Asian zone fourth-round play-off first leg when Japanese referee Toshimitsu Yoshida incorrectly awarded an indirect free-kick to Bahrain after the Uzbeks had encroached at the Uzbeks penalty kick when 1-0 up.
article_snippet.sent: This happened in the 38th minute and FIFA ordered that the entire match be replayed which did not please either team.
article_snippet.sent: Final 18 seconds of England match to be replayed after ref disallowed penalty for encroachment... and gave indirect free-kick instead.
article_snippet.sent: Current FIFA head of refereeing, Massimo Busacca, was in charge for the first-leg rematch
article_snippet.sent: It was surprising to receive four or five calls on the day of that game from FIFA stressing how important it was that that game passed without any errors in law which would provoke another appeal.
article_snippet.sent: Winding forward to the latest incident which was caused, incredibly, by an identical error by German referee, Marija Kurtes, in the 96th minute of England’s 2-1 'defeat' by Norway in their qualifying group.
article_snippet.sent: England thought their had scored an equaliser in the dying seconds of that game from the penalty spot but Kurtes had spotted encroachment by at least one England player and rightly disallowed the goal.
article_snippet.sent: Now, UEFA has upheld England’s appeal and ordered that in an evolution of the FIFA decision in 2005, the game should be replayed from the moment the technical error occurred.
article_snippet.sent: the FIFA decision was perhaps influenced by the fact that both teams are still present in the host city, Belfast, and are available following both teams final qualifying matches.
article_snippet.sent: If the same error is made in the opening minutes of a late group match in next year
article_snippet.sent: I almost caused just that at Germany 2006; my error, in not sending Josip Simunic off when showing Josip Simunic Josip Simunic second yellow card, could not be disputed and given FIFA’s decision in the qualifying stages of the same competition they would have struggled not to allow a rematch.
article_snippet.sent: the game was 2-2 at the time of the mistake and the game stayed that way until the final whistle but had Croatia scored they would have ‘qualified’.
article_snippet.sent: I remember being told by the Australians that had Croatia scored a winning goal in the final three or four minutes the Australians would have appealed and expected a rematch at the very least.
article_snippet.sent: Precedent set; now let’s wait for the next refereeing error.
highlights_snippet.sent: UEFA have ordered the final 18 seconds of the European Women's U19 Championship qualifier between England and Norway to be replayed .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: FIFA did something similar during a 2006 World Cup qualifier .
  