"For me, we were robbed," he told TNT Sports Brasil. "I don't want to talk about the refereeing, but we played extremely well, they committed I don't know how many fouls, and the referee didn't even pull out a single yellow card against them."
The big talking point was the two penalties. It's clear as day. I don't know what more you want him to do - pick the ball up with two hands, are you going to give a penalty then or not?
I've spent 15 years in Italy, even when there was a referee behind the goal line. If there are tools to help referees make fewer mistakes, that's great, but from what I see, there's a debate about everything: penalties, free kicks, yellow or red cards. We know the referee is a human being. Today, I don't see any improvement in anything. There's nothing but controversy, with us and with any other team. I think we've taken a step backwards instead of forward.
Our staff put a lot of effort into sending those reports but from now on there's no point. There's no acknowledgement of what we're saying, it's just ignored. We get a reply but the reply is always in agreement with what's happened. It's not good enough. We're not going to waste our time on it, we're going to focus on what we're doing for Cardiff city and try to give our supporters and players the protection they need.
