text: do feel an "anti-american"backlash by referees against the us.team?   not at all.  i didn't think they were biased against us, i saw bad calls both ways in the last two matches.  i've also seen a lot of bad calls in non-us matches, the worst had to be when the french scored a goal and the refs didn't give them credit.  the officiating just isn't what it was in the prevoius world cups i've watched closely (going back to 1994).  jorge l. from uruguay i think was inept (who did the us - italy match) and i hope for the sakes of the surviving teams he won't be reffing any of their matches.