ANTI-CORRUPTION PROSECUTORS IN BARCELONA RECEIVE COMPLAINT
Referee allegedly pressured into favouring Real Madrid in Clásico
A lawyer has reported to Anti-corruption Prosecutors in Barcelona that a first division assistant referee was allegedly pressured by the Spanish Referees' Association to favour Real Madrid in their game against Barcelona on 21st November.
During an alleged telephone call, which took place in September, a member of the association contacted a top flight referee who had been short-listed to take charge of 'el Clásico' and said that he should "try to control the game in a way that thwarted the interests of one of the clubs, Barcelona".
The report added that it was the referee who called his assistant, who is allegedly behind the report, to tell him that it "would be better if the toughest decisions in that game were not made by the match referee because they generate more controversy and are submitted to tighter media scrutiny".
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