[Cristobal Soria, El Chringuito pundit] In 2009, the day Barça beat Madrid 6-2, Sevilla played Villareal, and Iturralde was the ref, and I knew him. So I went to his dressing room and I said “Itu, Barça have scored 6 on Madrid!” and we hugged and celebrated.

10 comments

1. DISGRACE

2. I would have been surprised if Iturralde didn’t celebrate Madrid losing.

3. Nothing but clowns in that show 😂

4. If you think with a sound mind, it’s not weird that referees are fans of certain clubs. They are men in a country where football is the predominant sport, it would be weird if they didn’t like football yet still chose to become referees. The fact they are refs means they had some affinity to the sport to begin with.

   I would go so far to say that practically every ref has a club they support, not just in Spain.

   I don’t see that as a problem.

   It’s when that favour might make them also do so in matches, when that becomes a serious problem. Or you know, when 1 club pays the vice-director in charge of the referees under the table. Either one. Huge problem.

5. The whole system is rigged.

6. There’s a reason why Iturralde has been soo busy lately trashing Madrid and Perez for exposing the refs thru MadridTV, he knows he’s of his corruption and is nervous of being exposed but it’s just a matter of time.

7. Itu, Barca?

8. What?

9. Referees supporting Barca Nothing special.

10. For a league with so much potential and excellent teams, they surely have some horrible refereeing. Now I know why