After the statements released to 'Le Iene' in recent days, the anonymous referee spoke again to the television program to denounce the anomalies of the Italian arbitration system. This evening, Tuesday, January 30, the interview with Filippo Roma to the anonymous Serie A referee who exposed the referee case in Italy and who added further details and a report of the meeting organized by Gianluca Rocchi will be broadcast in prime time on Italia 1.
The service that will air tonight also includes testimonies from former referees such as Luca Marelli, Oscar Girardi and Claudio Gavillucci.
The anonymous referee's statements
'The manhunt has started within the National Referees Commission, there is a tangible state of agitation, many have suspicions and everyone formulates their own hypotheses on who the mole is. Many colleagues have expressed their solidarity with the anonymous referee and have shared the contents expressed in the service. Rocchi the day after the service called a meeting with all the members of the National Referees Commission for 7 pm, we were about 160, all connected via zoom. He seemed tested for the service that aired. He invited us not to get emotionally involved and to go on the field by showing our value. He says it's just a staging, a media thing to attack his person and the referees. But he also said that, if the mole really exists, he will go to him before the end of the season, apologize and say he made a mistake'.
'I have absolutely no intention of apologizing to Rocchi, because there have been so many situations that unfortunately are not brought to light. I will not come forward with the referee association because I would face radiation. Having spoken anonymously is already a lot, to try to bring out the problems we have within this environment. Everyone knows that if I had shown my face I would have already finished my journey in Serie A'.
'I hope that after this complaint of mine it can get better. The night before the Iene service there was the Italian Super Cup final Inter-Napoli, and among various episodes there was an expulsion due to a double warning of the Napoli player, Simeone. The first warning concerning him was clearly a mistake, as the foul by the Napoli player was a simple foul, which the referee instead decided to sanction with a yellow card, in my opinion unjustified. The warning was completely out of place. To date we have had no clarification regarding the doubts raised on the Sassuolo-Lazio and Juventus-Roma matches. In my opinion, it would be appropriate for the head of the National Referees Commission to give explanations on this. Also because we would need it for educational reasons and to know for sure how to behave in similar cases that could arise in the future'.
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