The Disciplinary Committee of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) sanctioned Real Madrid’s English player Jude Bellingham with two games for his expulsion at the end of last day’s match with a direct red against Valencia.
The Committee’s resolution rejects Real Madrid’s allegations in defense of Bellingham and imposes two matches on the Madrid player for attitudes of contempt or inconsideration towards the referees, with an accessory fine of 700 euros for the club and 600 for the player, in application of article 144 of the Code Disciplinary of the RFEF.
Bellingham headed a Brahim Díaz cross into the net that would have made it 2-3 for his team at the moment in which the referee signaled the end of the match, without validating the goal, and was later sent off with a direct red card for heading “in an aggressive attitude and shouting,” according to the arbitration report.
At a time when players like Carvajal, Modric, Vinicius, Lunin and others from Real Madrid went to confront Gil Manzano, the referee wrote during the match about Jude Bellingham: »After the end of the match and still on the field of play “He ran towards me in an aggressive and shouting attitude, repeating ‘it’s a fucking goal’ on several occasions.”
Real Madrid alleged the existence of a manifest material error, after denying the aggressive attitude that the referee attributes to the player in the minutes and stating that Bellingham only addressed the referee once, and not on several occasions, and provided video evidence of the facts.
The club also argued that the expression ‘it’s a fucking goal’, which translates to ‘it’s a fucking goal’, is offensive or insulting and maintained that it would not be offensive or insulting either if the literal translation was chosen (“it’s a fucking goal”). goal”), since these are expressions fully accepted in common language.
For the Committee, repeated viewing of the images does not allow “to conclude, beyond any doubt, that the action that led to the expulsion did not occur as described by the referee and, ultimately, prove the material error manifest in the arbitration story.
Specifically, he states that it has not allowed him to conclude that the player did not scream, since he cannot be heard at any time, and that he did not repeat the expression ‘it’s a fucking goal’ several times, since the cut lasts 11 seconds and does not show what happened immediately before, and that his attitude was not aggressive.
«All of this (the tone and attitude of the player and the number of times the phrase is repeated) is decisive in contextualizing the action and the effect of the specific words spoken by the player, beyond their literal translation. If this disciplinary body accepted the club’s version, which does not reach, as has been said, the required threshold of proof, it would be carrying out a substitution of the arbitration work that does not correspond to it,” the resolution concludes.
The sanction against Bellingham, which can be appealed before the Appeals Committee, will prevent him from playing the matches of the next two days of the League, next Sunday against Celta at the Bernabéu and on Saturday the 16th against Osasuna in Pamplona. EFE
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