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ENTERTAINMENT and ADVENTURE => Sports Watch => Topic started by: Folami David on Apr 10, 2013, 03:02 PM

Title: Malaga President Calls On UEFA For Inquiry
Post by: Folami David on Apr 10, 2013, 03:02 PM
Malaga president Abdullah bin Nasser Al-Thani has called for Uefa to investigate his team's dramatic 3 2 Champions League defeat at Borussia Dortmund which he blamed on racism.
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Dortmund scored two goals in 70 seconds in added time at home on Tuesday to reach the last four of the Champions League after their dramatic quarterfinal finished 3-2 on aggregate after last Wednesday's goalless first-leg in Malaga.
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Replays showed both Germany midfielder Marco Reus' 91st-minute equaliser and Felipe Santana's 93rd-minute match-winner looked to have been scored from offside positions, leaving Malaga's Qatari billionaire president fuming.
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"This is not football, but racism, clearly," he wrote on his Twitter account after his side were denied a Champions League semifinal place on their first season in the competition.
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"I hope to open a thorough investigation Uefa regarding the Spanish club out this way [sic].
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"Thank you very much for the team, you have been Champions on the pitch, I'm sorry to go out this way (to) injustice and racism."
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After the match, the Spaniards' coach Manuel Pellegrini was highly critical of Scottish referee Craig Thomson, but Malaga's second goal by Eliseu, eight minutes from time which had made it 2-1, was also shown to have been offside.
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"It was like there wasn't a referee on the pitch at the end, it was chaos in the closing stages, there were six or seven things which went unpunished in our area," fumed Pellegrini.
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"There was a chain of mistakes. Whatever needs to be changed, must be changed."
Title: Re: Malaga President Calls On UEFA For Inquiry
Post by: Folami David on Apr 10, 2013, 03:21 PM
My view on the match was that the referee messed it all up for both teams. Most of the goals were absurd.