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Santosh Trophy : Fans point finger at referee
The Telegraph (Imtiaz Ahmed) | Wednesday , June 1 , 2011
However, it turned out to be a disappointing evening for a crowd well over 8,000 who thronged the Nehru Stadium stands to cheer Manipur. The 1-2 loss was not the sole disappointment for the crowd. A majority of the spectators were in agreement with coach S. Ekendra Singh that it was not Bengal but referee Ratheesh Kumar of Kerala who denied Manipur the title.
“The referee appeared to me as partisan. He denied us three clear penalty kicks apparently to please powers that be in the AIFF,” coach Singh said after the final match last night. “It was a clean fault of the Bengal defenders inside their box when they grounded (Manipur skipper) I. Nilakumar Singh in the dying minutes of the match and the referee did not even bother to consider the appeal,” a supporter from Imphal, L. Irawat Singh, flanked by about a dozen more Manipur fans, told The Telegraph.
The disappointment was evident during the match too; the crowd looked stunned when the appeals were dismissed. Asked if the team would consider lodging a formal complaint with the AIFF against the referee, the coach said, “Not at all. This is part of Indian football. We take it sportingly. Our players played a good game and I think we did not lose the game.”
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