2023-06-02 12:15:37
Anthony Taylorthe referee of the final of the Europa League between Sevilla and the Romaexperienced very tense moments this Thursday upon his arrival at the airport in Budapest after the Europa League final.
A group of Roma fans showed their great dissatisfaction with Anthony Taylor’s refereeing performance when they recognized the English referee accompanied by his family. Insults, chants, shoving and even throwing objects They have starred in the harassment that Anthony Taylor and his family have received from some Roma fans at the Budapest airport.
In the images that have circulated on social networks, you can see the tension of Italian fans with launches of bottles of water and even a chair. The English referee was guided by airport security personnel to a safe area.
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Taylor’s performance, who did not understand a handball in the Sevilla area as a penalty, did not please the Roma fans, who also did not understand the excessive number of cards shown to their team’s players.
Jose Mourinho He already showed his dissatisfaction with the refereeing team moments after the Europa League final. The Roma coach rebuked the referee in the stadium parking lot and spoke about the refereeing at the press conference after the match: “The referee seemed Spanish… We go home dead because of an injustice,” said the Portuguese coach.
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“He did not call Ocampos’s penalty, in which he shoots, because the VAR tells him so. But he was going to call a penalty at Ocampos’s. And Lamela, who has scored in the shoot-out, has not seen the second yellow either. I want to talk about the important decisions. Has the referee affected a play? Not in one, in several… Well, it’s over…”, Mourinho added.
The tension of the Roma coach was transferred yesterday to the fans of the Italian team when they recognized the English referee a few meters away, who did not hesitate to rebuke him more harshly than Mourinho.
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