The RFEF has filed a case against Real Madrid for the videos it broadcasts before each match on its television channel about the referees. Sevilla, which denounced the Madrid club before playing at the Santiago Bernabéu on February 25, has issued a statement informing that its second complaint has been successful.
In the match on matchday 26, the field referee was Isidro Díaz de Mera, while Pablo González Fuertes directed the match from the VAR. Prior to the match, Real Madrid TV broadcast a video about both, where they showed plays that had allegedly harmed the white club. Sevilla, aware of the situation, complained to the Federation, a protest that was initially rejected.
Even so, the Seville team reformulated its complaint by understanding that “these practices, which have been repeated in recent times – including the first round match between both teams – do serious damage to Spanish football and call into question judge the integrity of the competition itself and the honorability of the refereeing team but, above all, they aim to influence the specific referees who act in the matches, since the videos try to create the image of a lack of professionalism and anti-Madridism, just before each match. match, with enormous diffusion on television,” the statement said.
Furthermore, Sevilla understands that these videos criticizing the refereeing establishment have “a special impact on the matches played at the Santiago Bernabéu, since the tens of thousands of Madrid fans arrive informed of the existence of an anti-Madrid bias in the games.” referees who are going to intervene, which increases tension and creates unfair pressure on them,” the letter concludes.
