Beach, i was the first to react to your post.
My first impulse was saying exactly the same. Cakir made a mistake, we all know now. Let's talk about the blatant penalty that Reading didn't get against Man Utd for Vidic foul ?
When push comes to shove this one might make a much bigger difference than Nani's red card. First of all the impac on the match result is much bigger (if Ferguson and his team would have stayed focused they would have won a match where they were by far the better team except for the few minutes after the sending off, whereas Reading were denied a penalty and almost certain goal) and secondly, imagine Reading going down because of the loss of that single point...financially the difference is huge.
This is only one example of a referee mistake. In the end this will make no difference at all for Man Utd, despite that error they will be the deserved champions. I merely mentioned it to demonstrate that every team has big decisions going against them, it is no use to continually scrutinize refs who made a mistake. Leave it behind you. How would you feel if Bayern fans still would mention the fact that they were the better team throughout the 1999 final, but that they lost it in injury time ? You wouldn't like that, and i would agree with you. Loosing gracefully is an art...
We all know what you think about Cakir's mistake. You act as if this is the worst ref ever, he isn't. People who see him week in week out think he is a fine referee. Everyone makes mistakes. Even Ferguson, but doesn't have the guts to stand up and admits his mistake. Instead he sents his assistent to rant about the ref. In the match against Madrid, the tactically more astute manager won the match from the dominating team. Ranting about a referee mistake was Ferguson way of having damage control and the fans feel for it..
Since both Croatia and Serbia are in Belgium's group i saw the high lights of that highly sensitive match, Cakir wasn't featured in them, so one might suppose he did well in a very, very tough match. (Everybody saw Kolarov's disastrous free kick that lead to Croatia's first goal ???)