{"id":704443,"date":"2026-06-14T23:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T23:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704443\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T23:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T23:52:11","slug":"world-cup-2026-clement-turpin-appointed-referee-of-england-v-croatia-in-group-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704443\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Clement Turpin appointed referee of England v Croatia in Group L"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clement Turpin has been appointed referee for England’s opening World Cup game against Croatia on Wednesday – and was once labelled a “Grade E” official by head coach Thomas Tuchel. <\/p>\n

The Frenchman showed then Bayern Munich boss Tuchel two yellow cards in the German club’s Champions League quarter-final second leg against Manchester City<\/a> in April 2023, sending him to the stands.<\/p>\n

Turpin produced five yellow cards in the first half at Allianz Arena and a straight red for Bayern defender Dayot Upamecano for a last-man challenge on Erling Haaland, but an offside call from the video assistant referee (VAR) reversed the decision. <\/p>\n

Bayern’s 4-1 aggregate loss prompted Tuchel to criticise Turpin post-match, saying: “Two things couldn’t keep up with the level – the pitch wasn’t in good condition and also the referee, unfortunately, was Grade E.<\/p>\n

“I’d give him a one out of 10. He was absolutely terrible. It’s unbelievable at this level. <\/p>\n

“He was whistling for everything and anything. Everything was against us. <\/p>\n

“In the end, we were never in a position to turn things around with three men against us. That’s a fact.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clement Turpin has been appointed referee for England’s opening World Cup game against Croatia on Wednesday – and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-704443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}