Pep faces probe after referee rant
Reuters - Tuesday 16 March 2010, 20:28
MADRID - The Spanish football federation
will investigate comments made by Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola
after he accused officials of lying in a match report, the La
Liga champions said on Tuesday.
Guardiola was sent off in the 2-2 draw at Almeria on March 6
and was forced to watch Sunday's 3-0 home win over Valencia from
the stands, after the club failed in their appeal against the
decision.
On Saturday, Guardiola said: "I have seen the footage and I
am not very proud. Seeing it I can understand the sending off
and I don't like seeing myself like that.
"But when someone lies you have to appeal. They (the
officials) lied in the match report and put things in there that
I did not say."
Referee Carlos Clos Gomez wrote in his match report that he
had sent Guardiola to the stands in the 27th minute for leaving
his technical area and putting his face close to that of the
assistant referee and shouting and waving his arms.
He quoted Guardiola as saying: "Your decisions are the wrong
way around" and "You don't understand anything."
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