Graham Poll has paid the price for his yellow-card blunder by being named among the 14 referees sent home from the World Cup.

Fifa's referees committee announced the 12 match officials who will be retained to be in contention to take charge of the remaining eight games of the tournament.

Poll,who booked the same player three times during the Croatia versus Australia match, is not among them and neither is Russian Valentin Ivanov after he set a record by showing 16 yellow and four red cards during the Portugal v Holland match.

Argentina's Horacio Elizondo has been name as the referee in charge of England's quarter-final against Portugal on Saturday.

The 12 referees retained are: Toru Kamikawa (Japan), Coffi Codjia (Benin), Benito Archundia (Mexico), Horacio Elizondo (Argentina), Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay), Mark Shield (Australia), Massimo Busacca (Switzerland), Frank de Bleeckere (Belgium), Luis Medina Cantalejo (Spain), Markus Merk (Germany), Lubos Michel (Slovakia), Roberto Rosetti (Italy).