Juan Manuel Delgado’s declarations

Athletic Club Board member Juan Manuel Delgado made some declaration on our web page concerning the referee’s performance during the Sevilla FC-Athletic Club match, contextualizing the referees that our team has had this season.

He specifically pointed out that “Athletic in its 112 year history has always respected referees, but that lately the referees are losing respect for our club”.

Delgado, who is also the President of the female team, added “this season we’ve seen that it’s very easy to be left with ten players, putting up with refereeing that bit by bit is conditioning the game, good goals that are disallowed etc.., being a team in the top half with such devastating statistics such as only three matches won in twenty matches that have been refereed by the same person”. Finally he went on to say “our concern has nothing to do with taking the credit away from our rivals when they play better than us that in some matches this has been the case, but performances like yesterdays is to raise Cain.”.