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🚨BREAKING: Javier Tebas “LaLiga referees must do better or risk losing their job” “Yesterday, I witnessed with my own eyes the most bizarre situation. How do you justify as a professional referee that a dive from Mbappé should be awarded as a penalty? In a situation where you can get a review from the VAR team, you opted for a straight call, ‘penalty’. Who in their right mind does that? I don’t think this is the way we want to promote equality among member clubs. After the game, I received a direct letter of complaint and resignation from one of the referees. In this letter he said, ‘I have a duty to protect the integrity of this sport by ensuring that the right rules and procedures are followed to the best possible outcome, and tonight that wasn’t the case. I clearly asked the referee (Munuera J) to go over the monitor and re-examine the incident, but he bluntly refused my call. I cannot continue with that manner of ignorance.’ You can obviously see that there are some people in this officiating who are corrupt and only side with one team. That is not what we represent or how we want to develop LaLiga. Munuera will be suspended immediately pending a complete investigation. I’ve sent words to the president of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, who I have spoken with several times about officiating, and to my surprise he has turned deaf ears on me. I’ve been around long enough to know when something feels off, and this is one of those incidents where things do not add up. The ethics committee must move quickly to resolve this matter and ensure that this behaviour among referees does not repeat itself again. My apologies to Racing Santander. The penalty shouldn’t have been given. We must do better than this.”