A terrifying night | The Rioja

Alterations, incidents, temporary suspension of the game and even death threats. These are some of the ingredients of the match that was played on Saturday night in Tarragona and that closed with the promotion of Málaga thanks to a goal in the last minutes of extra time (2-2). The referee Mallo Fernández details it in the minutes of that match. The Castilian-Leonese stucco referee accompanied by Eduardo de la Hoya from Rioja in one of his bands.

«You are scoundrels, sons of p…. You are going to die, scoundrels, your son is going to die, I hope you kill yourselves. “Let your fucking family die, cowards,” were some of the phrases heard by the referee trio. It is not at all strange, sadly, on a football field, but it is more striking when it is aimed directly at “managers and owners of Nàstic”, the local club, which was a few minutes away from promotion, since the 2-1 the door to the Second Division.

And from words, to actions. “We came to fear for our physical integrity, when we saw how they opened the door (to the locker room) and scolded us,” the referee explains in the letter shortly after remembering that a member of the local club’s coaching staff “pushed” his assistant for the stairs. Mallo Fernández refers to his assistant 1.

The referee assures that the stadium security told them that it was “impossible to remove and control” these people since, in their words, these people are actually “several directors and owners of the club.” The refereeing team left the stadium with protection. “The public force told us that we had to be escorted to the vehicles and on the road until we arrived at the hotel to guarantee our integrity,” he writes.