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Originally Posted by Bagor
I'm actually not that bothered about going out. Would just be paper over the cracks. Only downside is stupid Thursday night football in The European carabao.
Just watching the Demba Ba incident in full.
The ref deserves to get disciplined also. He's equally as bad as the official.
Numerous times his response to the complaints was simply to raise his hands and point Ba towards the stands. He tried to brush the whole situation off. Ignore it. He didn't take it seriously at all.
Multiple times it was pointed out to him by Ba and multiple times he did eff all. Except walk backwards and continue to send Ba off whilst ignoring his complaint. The POS can't even look Ba in the eyes whist he's protesting.
Even when Mbappe and Neymar protest he waves them off. Good on both of them for having Ba's back and not letting the ref do what he wanted to do. Take the cowardly approach, ignore it, and play on. Nothing changed until Mbappe points to the fourth official and says "we can't play with this guy".
Good on both teams. Because if they hadn't have walked off we'd be looking at some investigation based on a warped ref report.
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the whole thing appears to be a misunderstanding.
a Romanian linesman said the word "negru" (meaning black in Romanian) to the main referee to describe a coach (Webo) on the Basaksehir bench. Webo was loudly protesting a yellow card his player received.
Webo (worth noting, the only black coach on the bench for Basaksehir), heard the word negru and assumed the linesman meant it in a derogatory way.
The referees explained to the entire bench that the word "negru" means black. They refused to listen.
Demba Ba then protests that the linesman shouldn't have used "black" as an adjective to point out Webo, which to me, and any sane person, seems ridiculous.
This is why they are dismissing their protests. Because it is ignorant and assumes racism where there isn't any.