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Tommy Smyth called the English goal that wasn't, 'The worst call in Futball I've ever seen'. 
The play-by-play commentator said it was 'Far, far worse a call' than the American goal waved off against Slovenia.
So.  If you think the the American call was a conspiracy to alter the game, just because it was an obvious call, then the England non-goal has to be a conspiracy for the same reason, yes?  Any call that is that obvious must therefore be due to bias or malice.
I'm not a huge soccer fan.  And these blatant bad calls certainly reduce my interest in the game, as Doc indicated they do for him. 
We want the game to be fair, and we want the call to be correct.  That is why it boggles why baseball and other sports don't implement replay more.  We want to know what really happened.
The other thing that has me scratching my head.  Why only 1 on-field official in soccer?
The field is huge.  There are 22 players on the pitch.  How can ONE official be relied upon to call the game?  This boggles me too.  Ya, I know there are 2 linesman.  But for crying out loud, basketball has 3 refs on the court, and it's a tiny fraction the size of a soccer field, and there are 1/2 the number of players.
Seems to me like Soccer could do with a refereeing make-over.