Tensions are now at boiling point at the Bernab\u00e9u.<\/p>\n
Real Madrid has frozen all institutional contact with the Spanish Football Federation, accusing the governing body of maintaining an \u201cunfair and rigged refereeing system\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
According to Spanish newspaper AS, General Manager Jos\u00e9 \u00c1ngel S\u00e1nchez initially participated in meetings to launch the new refereeing system but pulled out at the last minute, calling the Federation president to announce that Real Madrid would not sign the agreement\u2014a clear sign of the deepening rift.\n<\/p>\n
The final straw, according to club sources, was the La Liga match against Girona, where referee Albertola Rojas\u2019s decisions were deemed biased: two similar incidents involving Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 were handled differently, despite clear television evidence.<\/p>\n
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In Madrid, they describe the situation as \u201ca competition rigged by the referees\u201d and insist that every match reinforces their belief that they must stay apart from the Federation until the refereeing system is completely reformed.\n<\/p>\n
A source close to the club\u2019s hierarchy states: \u201cWe are not seeking privileges, but justice. What is happening is unjustifiable and cannot be tolerated.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
That tension was plain to see during the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final against Bayern Munich, when Spanish football chief Rafael Luz\u00e1n sat at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u alongside UEFA President Aleksander \u010ceferin. but he was conspicuously seated in the third row of the stand\u2014a telling sign of the deep freeze in their relationship.\n<\/p>\n
While the club acknowledges that officiating is not the only reason for its domestic struggles, it believes it is the single biggest cause of dropped points and insists that stance will not change until the Spanish refereeing system is radically overhauled to restore trust.<\/p>\n
Read also: Arbeloa lashes out in unprecedented fashion over refereeing… and sends a strongly worded message to Bayern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tensions are now at boiling point at the Bernab\u00e9u. Real Madrid has frozen all institutional contact with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,41288,22455,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-599742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-laliga","12":"tag-real-madrid","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}