The unfair penalty was Escamillo writing about what he reckoned might fire up the people of Argentine to sort things out back home.

The post came well before the match with England, so it wasn't a comment on the one that decided the match. (Though I imagine that it will have been seen as a dive by a lot of people in Argentina, as it would have been by a lot of people in England if it had been the other way round.)

Linking from football to politics/economics - I was interested watching the match to see at least one Argenntine flag in the crowd with a picture of Che Guevara.