The thing is that this is so blatantly racist and such an affront to sporting merit of a referee who climbed the ladder under incredibly hard circumstances that any and every decent sports fan gets it and is angered by it. It’s just gut-level wrong and that cuts through.
Award-winning Somali referee Omar Artan, set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup, was denied entry to the United States, a sports ministry official told AFP on Monday u.afp.com/SDH9
