German referee Felix Zwayer blows out about death threat | Football

sport">Criticisms of De Duister after leading the smash between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich have been harsh. Referee boss Lutz Michael Fröhlich announced at the beginning of January that Zwayer wanted to come to his senses and think about the events surrounding the fraught match.

sport">Now Zwayer himself has commented on the terrible messages he received afterwards. “I received numerous emails that were unbelievable and difficult to deal with, to ignore,” said the referee at Sky. “I was also informed by the Berlin police that a murder threat against me was circulating on the Internet. Those are things I couldn’t keep a secret from my wife.”

sport">He noticed in the matches that he would whistle afterwards that it did not sit in the cold clothes for him. “You’re trying to pick up the thread again. But when you stand in the doorway and try to say goodbye to your wife, as you’ve done for fifteen years, you see her burst into tears. Not because she’s going to miss me when I’m gone, but because she’s worried about me and what might happen at home.” Real Sociedad-PSV was the last game he has called for the time being.

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