Acun Ilıcalı: There are scandalous decisions made against and in our favor

In his statement to journalists after the match, Ilıcalı stated that they were happy with the victory and said: “Because we came to Trabzon away, one of the most difficult away games in the league, to maintain our claim in the league.” he said.

Ilıcalı underlined that they want the tension to decrease and peace to come in football, and that today is a good day in that respect, and made the following evaluation:

*So we say let’s compete to death, but keep it on the field. But of course, unfortunately, as you all know in our country, football does not stay on the field lately. Today, there was a referee scandal that I would call ‘new’. I said it during the week, ‘I have no faith left.’ What is happening right now is an absolute disgrace. Don’t get me wrong here, there are scandalous decisions made against us and in our favor. A young referee friend of ours tried to referee the match, but they did not let him referee it. They said, ‘You are too young, you don’t know anything about this operation yet, so just stop.’ And we all saw together how a match could be ruined with the warnings from VAR.

*We have no doubt that our referee teachers will evaluate it, unfortunately today football was murdered by the referee again. We say, ‘The referee problem is huge.’ It was said that ‘VAR is very important’, and today all the disgraces about VAR emerged. The referee’s decisions were interfered with, hands were not seen, Trabzonspor’s position, which in our opinion was a goal, was not awarded a goal. When you look at it, we don’t want privilege, we want justice. Trabzonspor should not be defeated either, but we should not be given a halftime execution decision just because Trabzonspor was defeated, and an operation should not be carried out asking ‘How can we make up for it in the second half?’

Acun Ilıcalı, a journalist said, “There was Atilla Karaoğlan in the VAR chair in Samsun, and there is Atilla Karaoğlan today. Would you like to say something about this issue?” On the question, he said:

*Arda Brothers massacred football while we were away at Galatasaray, and then they massacred the Beşiktaş match as well. Atilla Karaoğlan massacred there, he massacred here. I am laughing about this issue now, so if anyone wants to support these referees, they should do so, but unfortunately, we have not received the reactions we wanted from our MHK President so far, and I have no doubt that he is following these issues. I’m sure he sees things too. We are waiting for the decisions of the federation, we trust them, something will definitely happen, I mean this theater every day, every week, I don’t know, there is no such disgrace anywhere in the world, every week we talk about something different. Look, I say it once again, we do not want privilege, we want justice. Don’t give us anything that is in our favor, don’t give us anything that is unfair, we don’t want it. But don’t try to give us one unfair thing and then give the other party three, you’re being funny.

Acun Ilıcalı, when asked about the statement made by his coach Jose Mourinho after the match, said: “What our teacher and Amrabat said, first of all, summarizes the situation. I followed all of them, so there is no need to talk much. “They have already expressed their opinions on this issue as foreigners in Turkey.” he said.

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