The entire Saudi Arabian refereeing team has been banned from the World Cup over a match fixing scandal
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- The entire Saudi Arabian refereeing team has been banned from officiating at the 2018 World Cup.
- This is because one referee, Fahad Al-Mirdasi, has been slapped with a life ban from soccer as he tried to fix a match in his own country.
- Al-Mirdasi reportedly "asked for money to help a team win a cup final" in Saudi Arabia.
- The scandal has cost Al-Mirdasi his place at the premier sports event of the summer.
Saudi Arabian referee Fahad Al-Mirdasi has issued a lot of red cards during his time as a match official, but now he has been given marching orders of his own.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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