It was poor officiating, the Entourage agreed, that spoiled Coach Jerry Moore's football season.

Many credit the Avalanche victory to the poor officiating where each official didn't blow the whistles on blatant violations or made calls that they should not have made.

Guevara, who leads the league with seven yellow caution cards, said after the game that he wanted to leave M.L.S. because of poor officiating.

La Salle's league representative welcomed the sanctions "but the sanction is for poor officiating; it has nothing to do with the technical foul called."

Holtz's disappointment led reporters to examine a number of cryptic references, including one during a conference call last Sunday on the topic of poor officiating.

The Welsh team should have been victorious, but were hampered by poor officiating from the referee.

King was outraged by (ostensibly) poor officiating from official Ed T. Rush in his rookie season.

"There were a lot of complaints as a result of poor officiating, and A.I.B.A. cannot allow it."

Camby said the sore left foot that kept him out of the game against Toronto felt fine and blamed his foul woes on poor officiating.

The players felt that they had lost the game simply due to poor officiating.