Chaos reigned at the 1982 World Cup finals when the president of the Kuwait FA, Sheikh Fahid Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, marched on to the field to berate a referee and threatened to take his side off. The row was over Kuwait, trailing 3-1 to Michel Platini’s France, conceding a fourth goal scored by Alain Giresse because several of their players had stopped, thinking that they had heard the ref’s whistle. lncredibly, the referee gave in to Al-Sabah’s forceful argument and the goal was ruled out. In the remaining minutes France did go on to add a fourth goal and the referee would lose his international status, presumably for being weak.
