Carlos Eugênio Simon, who has officiated at the last two World Cup finals, was stood down by the Brazilian football confederation for the final six weeks of the domestic campaign after a build-up of perceived errors culminated in the president of Palmeiras denouncing him as "a crook, a scoundrel and a shameless bastard".
Some 12 months earlier Flamengo had been so incensed by the sending-off of their striker Diego Tardelli in a critical game against Cruzeiro – the forward appeared to be fouled for a penalty, only to be sent off for diving – that they wrote to the Fifa general secretary, Jérôme Valcke, with an accompanying DVD, demanding Simon was dropped for the tournament in South Africa. Their defeat by Cruzeiro had cost them a place in the following season's Copa Libertadores.
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