Marsch acknowledged that his anger at the no-calls was fuelled in part by his squad’s ongoing frustration at their treatment in CONCACAF. “I said this a little bit the day before the (third-place) match, the players made it clear to me that we needed to stand up for ourselves,” Marsh said at the time. “Obviously I was disappointed with the referee (Honduran Hector Martinez) in the match against Mexico. But they were angry. There’s a difference between disappointment and anger. And they were very clear that they think that we need to do something.” “The only miscalculation I made was I should have had that reaction for the first penalty. Because the second one wasn’t a penalty.” Marsch reckons he had received four or five red cards previously in his managerial career — and two as a player.