Berlin – Referee Felix Zwayer spoke for the first time during his break and reported threats against him. “My work email account has received numerous messages that are incredible and that are very difficult to deal with and ignore,” said Zwayer on Sky, who was at the center of heated discussions in early December.
“I was written to by the Berlin police that there was a death threat against me on the internet. And these are things that I couldn’t hide from my wife, especially because they were incredibly close to me,” said the 40-year-old: “You try to load up this backpack and pick it up and, like you’ve been from your own wife for 15 years, in the door to say goodbye. And then you see her bursting into tears. Not because she misses me, because you’re gone, but because she cares about me.”
In addition, Zwayer denied the allegations that had been smoldering for years that he once accepted money from scandal referee Robert Hoyzer or another person to manipulate a game. “I was never offered any money, I was never overtly told of any intended or actual match-fixing,” he said. “I have never received money from Robert for any involvement in any match-fixing.”