Cape Town City head coach Eric Tinkler was left furious by the level of refereeing after their 1-1 draw with third-placed SuperSport United at DHL Stadium.
City missed a chance to open a gap between themselves and Matsatsantsa after a late equaliser from Lyle Lakay cancelled out Khanyisa Mayo’s second-half opener.
Tinkler has requested South African media to do some research on how many times the referees blow the whistle instead of letting play-on. The former Bafana Bafana defender went on say it frustrates and it kills the game’s momentum.
“Find out the stats, I actually gonna do it myself. The stats in the EPL, how many times does the referee blow his whistle in 90 minutes of football, because I’m pretty sure here in South Africa we must be top in the world because our referees blow the whistle each and every opportunity he gets,” Tinkler told the media.
“I’m seeing fouls that are not fouls, I’m seeing opportunities to play advantage that we don’t play advantage we rather blow the foul, I’m seeing goalkeepers coming out falling over their own players and getting a foul.
“It’s like me marking someone, I’m trying to keep my distance I touch him to make sure that I keep my distance we give a foul and it’s killing the momentum of the game completely because every two minutes [whistle], and we restart, go again [whistle] and it’s frustrating because I’m like how was that a foul, we had a long throw goalkeeper caught it [whistle] he gave a foul I didn’t see any contact from no one, no one he gave a foul.
“And it’s frustrating because I’m seeing it week in week out, then the consistency if you giving the foul for this and you giving a yellow card then when it happens again be consistent.
“No, but you don’t give it, one was a yellow, this one I’m not in the mood. That’s how it feels and I think it needs to be addressed because it’s killing our game.
“It’s not a case of he was being biased towards him one team it was both ways. There was only one where he played an advantage then he came back to the foul, but actually didn’t come back to the foul he went back to the other foul instead of coming to this one.
“From my angle I think it was offside, Mayo came from an offside position, I’m being honest. I’m not saying that he was biased, he blew against me. I’m just saying the game itself, mistakes in terms of his decisions and blowing the whistle when there’s no need to blow the whistle.
“Just play, even that one when the keeper catches it, he’s got it in his hands play advantage. Why do you want to stop the game? He’s got it under control, you understand?
“There’s one ball that gets played behind, is he offside? Yes he is, do we get control of the ball? Yes we do, what does he do, blows the foul the offside, so now we start we’ve to all come back. But just play on let it flow.”
