Pupuma Annoyed With Referee: ‘They Mess It Up For Us’
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Milford FC head coach Xanti Pupuma took issue with the referee’s decision after his side’s 2-0 loss to Mamelodi Sundowns on Wednesday evening.
The newly-promoted outfit saw their three-game unbeaten run come to an end after going down to the African champions at Loftus Versfeld.
“To be honest, it’s the first time I leave a game with a little bit of a bad taste in my mouth. Maybe from all the coke I’ve been drinking. But really, I think some of the rules they apply to us but not to other teams,” Pupuma told SuperSport after the game.
“It’s a bit unfair, look at the end of the day, we had to win the game and they scored goals, the second goal ja…my players fell asleep, maybe the changes caused that. Overall, I think the display how they represented themselves was quite good especially in the first half and parts of the second half,” he added.
The Milford coach was not happy with how the referee handled certain decisions on the day, including a potential foul for Sundowns’ opening goal.
“I’m actually annoyed by that because we’ve been in that position before and those rules were applied to us and when it comes, we hear it’s not applied, not just that even in the second half when there was a tackle there in the middle of the park- the referee takes out a red-card and even puts it back and gives the yellow card after seeing who he was about to caution.
“I know these things, they mess it up for us and they mess up a good game where we really came to impose ourselves but we not going to look down on ourselves, we going to pick ourselves up and play Chippa on the weekend and see what happens.”
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