An the weekend before the Christmas break, the German referees had to endure more than usual. Hertha coach Stefan Leitl even doubted whether the game manager knew the rules (“I don’t know if he knows them”). The criticism from national player David Raum in Leipzig was similarly blatant: “The game was too big for the referee.” Or the rant at FC Augsburg: “Absolute joke”, “insolence”, “I wonder what they saw again…”.
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