Galatasaray Club said, “The era of lying on its ear in Turkish football has already come to an end! To reassure Turkish football and to share the facts and fair decisions with all football fans and all biased and impartial segments is the duty of the Turkish Football Federation that it cannot escape. The federation that has not been able to fulfill these duties until now has either fulfilled this obligation.” “The TFF and its boards should take the necessary decision as we stated in our statement on February 24.”
In the statement made by the yellow-red club, the following statements were made:
“It has become necessary to ask the following questions to the Turkish Football Federation and the boards and organizations that have been instrumental in the deliberate operation regarding the match, which is described as the most obviously scandalous match management in Turkish football, which has disturbed almost all referee commentators and the public conscience:
– In the Fenerbahçe – Pendikspor match; Fenerbahçe football player Mert Hakan Yandaş said to the match referee Kadir Sağlam, “Be careful, you can’t get out of here!” This action, which included threatening statements and created great outrage in the entire public, directly targets the Turkish Football Federation, the highest authority of Turkish football, the public will and authority. What attitude will TFF have and what kind of punishment will be given to this football player?
– What kind of an impact and pressure did the threats that started on the field and continued in the corridors create on the referees of the match? In the second half, the referee consciously took the match from one side and gave it to the other side, far beyond his bad management in the first half. Will the camera footage of the events that took place in the stadium corridors during the half-time of the match be shared with the public? Will the camera footage, as well as the reports of the representatives of the Turkish Football Federation regarding the reflections of the threats that started on the field and watched in front of millions of people, and the pressure on the referees of the match, be published and will the competent authorities take the necessary legal steps? Will those responsible for this atmosphere of fear be punished?
– This player, who should have received a red card for threatening the match referee during the half-time, continued to be on the field and scored his team’s equalizing goal. What decision will the Professional Football Disciplinary Board make in the face of the immoral, provocative and disrespectful attitude of the same player in question, who started from meters away towards the Pendikspor bench and lasted for seconds after the goal scored?
– During the match, referee Kadir Sağlam punished Pendikspor with 3 red cards, one of which was the coach, while he should have given 3 red cards to Fenerbahçe, and watched as many players repeatedly pointed fingers at him, touched his own body, pushed him, and destroyed his authority on the field. This referee, who took the match from one side and gave it to the other side with scandalous decisions, dealt a heavy blow to the competition in the relegation zone as well as the championship race in the league. The two yellow cards shown to Pendikspor’s Welinton in the 71st minute of the match and the red card punishment that the whole public, the referee authorities and everyone watching football, even Fenerbahçe fans, could not accept, had a direct impact on the score of the game and were not content with leaving a team short. It is a scandal that the referee Kadir Sağlam decided to call a foul in favor of Fenerbahçe, on the contrary, after the foul was committed outside the penalty area in a position that clearly cleared Pendikspor’s Badou Ndiaye. How will the Turkish Football Federation evaluate the performance of Kadir Sağlam, who could not exercise any authority against the football players who oppressed him, pushed him, threatened him throughout the match? Will this referee, who has so violated the honor of refereeing, be able to continue winning matches?
– The operational activities that developed after this are issues that the Turkish Football Federation must clarify immediately. Although VAR referee Alper Çetin had no evidence and did not have the slightest authority, he disregarded the rules of the football game and made a penalty decision, in which the VAR system could never intervene. What action will MHK take regarding the referees working in VAR? Will such a deliberate position be made available to the public in addition to the VAR records announced every Tuesday evening?
– The lack of intentionality of the field referees and VAR team, who decided in favor of Fenerbahçe in all positions, ignored many yellow and red cards, and made so many mistakes in favor of only one team, is contrary to both human mind and statistical science. What kind of investigation will be carried out regarding these referees? By whom was this operation performed? What sanctions will the Turkish Football Federation and the Central Referee Board apply regarding this issue?
– Did the broadcaster beIN SPORTS do this to act against the principles of media-broadcasting by not showing the angles that it did not broadcast during the match (despite having the necessary broadcast time during the pauses of the game) as it did in the previous weeks, in order to prevent the formation of public opinion by preventing millions from seeing it? Different angles of the position where Badou Ndiaye cleared the ball were not shown on the screen during the match, but were shown in the TRIO program broadcast at night. What is the purpose of not displaying these positions? Is the attitude of this screen blackout being a party to this operation? Here, the fact that it is clearly seen that the football player is clearing the ball cannot be explained by anything other than the intention to broadcast this in his own program but not during the match. There is no other explanation other than intentionality for this professional and experienced director and team not showing this. What decision will beIN MEDIA make regarding these people? The statement used by the announcer describing the match after the goal, who could not hide his bias despite all his professionalism, does not comply with the principles of broadcasting. What decision will be made regarding this person?
– Fenerbahçe Sports Club has VAR referees who have been embargoed since the beginning of the year. Who signed these decisions and for what reasons? Has the will to appoint referees in the Super League been transferred to Fenerbahçe? Were the referees who constantly made mistakes in Fenerbahçe’s last matches specifically selected? What kind of sanctions will be imposed on these referees? TFF and MHK must clarify this issue in detail and share it with the society in a transparent manner.
– Fenerbahçe – Galatasaray derby, Gaziantep FK – Fenerbahçe, Fenerbahçe – Alanyaspor, Fenerbahçe – Kasımpaşa and finally Fenerbahçe – Pendikspor matches… Arda Kardeşler, Mustafa İlker Coşkun, who took the match from one side to the other with his decisions and made it impossible for the opponents to win, especially with the operations he carried out in the last minutes. What kind of sanctions will be imposed on the referees named , Tugay Kaan Numanoğlu, Alper Çetin, Çağdaş Altay, Erkan Engin, Cihan Aydın and Kadir Sağlam?
The era of lying on one’s ear has already come to an end in Turkish football! It is the duty of the Turkish Football Federation that it cannot escape, to reassure Turkish football and to share the facts and fair decisions with all football fans and all biased or impartial segments. “The federation, which has not been able to perform these duties so far, must either fulfill this obligation or, as we stated in our statement on February 24, TFF and its boards must take the necessary decision.”
