Corinthians Midfielder Petros Banned For Six Months For Colliding With A Referee (Video)

It's not the best of angles but it seems as if he is watching the ball (you can just see it rolling loose), tries to run towards it but clips 29 causing him to lose balance slightly and fall onto the ref. Who he probably wasn't looking much at.

It is that he didn't immediately stop or turn to apologise to the ref like I have seen when there are collisions sometimes. Because if he did, this whole thing wouldn't even be talked about. It's a nothing collision between player and ref you see every now and again.

He did that on purpose. I bet he wishes he would have hit him harder though. Six months?

As an avid fan of Ligue 1 I can tell you that it is well known throughout the country that many of the officials are incompetent. It was no surprise that not a single official from Ligue 1 was invited to the World Cup.