White robbery? Controversial statements by the referee of the 2nd Champions League final in Madrid a

In the current times are many the voices in the football that demand more transparency on the work of the referees. Some, for example, ask to know publicly the conversations of the referees with the VAR or that after each party give a press conference explaining his errors, something that sucedió does some months with the English Mark Clattenburg.

The British, that was at the top of the final of the Champions League of Milan between the Real Madrid and the Athletic in 2016, left some confessions that have gone back to viralizarse in the middle of this new wave of criticism to the referees. The British conceded an interview to 'The Brazilian Shirt Name', in which it explained several situations that gave in Saint Siro in this party.

All very rare in the middle of a party of high level

The first explanation arrived on the offside goal of Sergio Bouquets, that advanced to the Madrid in the first minutes of the party. Clattenburg Has remembered that in that so much, that now with the VAR would have remained cancelled, Sergio Bouquets annotated of head being offside, because of the brush that it had produced by Gareth Bleat after the original centre.

"I said him to the assistant, although it was difficult by the noise, shouted him by the headphones if it knew that there was a touch in half after the service of band. 'You know that there has been a touch? You know it?'. I saw it looking the marker and asked him if 'can restart the game? You have seen the touch of Bleat?'", it explained the English referee, that could not cancel the so much because of the fault of answer.

🎥 Mark Clattenburg on the 2016 UCL final

💭 I love the transparency and honesty but I am amazed have was willing to say all that publicly.

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— Barça Spaces (@BarcaSpaces) March 14, 2023

There was not answer in the important moment

Clattenburg Completed besides explaining that "the was totally frozen", creating like this more controversial around the that partial triumph for the merengues. "A minute later had to reiniciar the game because we did not have the technology. I asked after him the headphones: 'you Have seen this offside?'. It said me that the headphones had not worked him and I said him: 'they Work now and no before, when we take the decision'", remembered.

The Madrid left to the rest commanding to the marker, thanks to this goal. Even so, in the resumption, the Athletic of Madrid received a penalti in favour also controversial, and Clattenburg was totally conscious of this. "It pité Because like this it went back the balance, since the Madrid had this opportunity with the offside goal that the Athletic had received", explained remembering the party.